“Bukra Extra Bold” Display type for Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai
March 18, 2008
“Bukra Extra Bold” is an Arabic display typeface for “Ibn Battuta Mall” in Dubai. The English slogans and ads in the mall were done uses the Latin font “Futura Extra Bold”. They asked for an Arabic font that has the same feel and sturdiness as “Futura Extra bold”.
Since Futura is a simplified geometric Sans Serif, I decided the base the Arabic companion on the Kufi script and try to simplify the letterforms as much as I can and make it young and fresh as Futura. The Arabic font had to work with the capitals of Futura Extra Bold, so I had to experiment with how much I can make the decsenders of the Arabic type short, the loop and tooth heights big and the pen stroke thick enough without clotting the counter spaces of the letterforms.
Bukra Eaxtra Bold typeset back to back with Futura Extra Bold CAPITALS.
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حمود | March 18, 2008 at 3:19 pm
incredible!!!
رائع للغاية.. الخط متناسق ومتناغم بشكل لا يوصف
رائع ورهيب بالفعل يا باسكال
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julia | March 18, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Really nice kufi font. It is not as edgy and works great with latin type faces (here Futura extra black — nice geometricgo togethers).
Congratulations!
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hussein | March 19, 2008 at 1:32 pm
though i don’t like Futura family.. but i have to admit that you’ve done a very elegant job.. Raheeb indeed :)
4.
omar | March 20, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Never fail to impress, Pascal :)
Beautiful work – ya3teek alf 3afyeh!
5.
TripleM | March 20, 2008 at 6:04 pm
خط رائع
فنكم رهيب
Amazing..great job..I want to download it??
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christian j | March 21, 2008 at 6:35 pm
I am in need of some help. I am a product designer at Parsons in NYC. I am working on a thesis project and need some help with Arabic. I can type it but the characters don’t connect. When I type using an Arabic font, it just spits out the characters left to right instead of connecting them right to left. I have a mac so its hard to switch languages in Illustrator. I would love to give you some words I need translated and then you give them back to me as a jpeg or pdf in “Bukra Extra Bold” or “Al Rouiya”. I could then live trace them and use them for my project. It might be asking a lot but its for a good cause. You can look at a brief overview of my project by following the link below. Please Help!
http://www.design21sdn.com/people/14621/posts/1517
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christian j | March 21, 2008 at 7:13 pm
You can also email me at ctjohn@gmail.com. Thanks!
8.
DEXTA | March 23, 2008 at 2:40 am
GREAT ! I WANT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SALAM YA ‘LL FROM PARIS CITY
9.
Moey | March 27, 2008 at 11:23 pm
WOW Pascal, be3a22id.
I wanted to ask for your help, I have an arabic script course and I wanted to ask you about the best sources/book to get. looking forward your reply
10.
Pascal Zoghbi | March 28, 2008 at 10:53 am
http://29letters.com/new/files/links.php
have a look on the list of arabic calligraphy and typography books on this page
cheers
11.
Moey | March 28, 2008 at 11:11 am
Thanks a lot Pascal
12.
mohamed | March 30, 2008 at 10:31 am
plz. i want it
mfmhassanen@hotmail.com
thanks
13.
ahmmed rubei | July 7, 2008 at 11:17 am
خط رائع
خط جميل
خط متناسق
خط متطور
14.
nabil | September 11, 2008 at 2:28 pm
رائع للغاية.. الخط متناسق ومتناغم
نبيل من المغرب
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16.
Mostafa | December 24, 2008 at 9:11 am
I would love to get this font. Please send it to me..
AfgClassics@gmail.com
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tomislav | December 31, 2008 at 9:53 am
wonderful typeface, outstanding job!
to the free riders — we all would love this typeface, but guess what … it’s commercial (and possibly meant to be used by the mall exclusively), there’s no point in posting lame requests here.
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Michael Tim | February 28, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I love your site!
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19.
Yaser Ali | March 3, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Hello, Pascal.
Is Bukra an exclusive font.
20.
pascal zoghbi | March 4, 2009 at 12:09 am
yes
it is
until 2011
then it will published with the whole weights from 29letters type foundry
21.
patrick chamberlain | August 5, 2009 at 6:59 pm
hi, i love this font, great work!
Is there any way to download it?
Can you sent it via E-Mail ?
Thank You!