Guides, tutorials, and inspiration on Arabic calligraphy, typography, and design.
Practical guidance for designers who don't read Arabic but need to work with Arabic type — direction, letter connection, common mistakes, and how to check your work.
How Hashim al-Baghdadi's 20th-century rule books turned Arabic calligraphy's classical master-to-apprentice tradition into a teachable modern curriculum.
A clear breakdown of when to export your Arabic calligraphy design as PNG versus SVG, with guidance for print, web, and social media use cases.
A beginner's guide to Arabic calligraphy by hand: what tools you need, why Naskh or Ruq'ah comes first, proportioned script, and a realistic practice timeline.
A step-by-step guide to designing Arabic wedding invitations — font pairing, layout tips, and a free workflow using an online Arabic calligraphy generator.
What actually differs between free and paid Arabic fonts, how licensing works, and when it makes sense to pay for a premium typeface instead of using an open-source one.
How Arabic calligraphy evolved from early Kufic inscriptions to today's digital typefaces, and why that history still shapes which font you should choose.
A practical framework for picking an Arabic font by use case — logos, wedding invitations, and social media graphics — with concrete recommendations for each.
A clear, practical guide to the major Arabic calligraphy styles — Naskh, Kufic, Thuluth, Ruq'ah, Diwani, and Nasta'liq — with examples of where each one is used today.
