And although Shilia has been primarily designed to be used as a display font, it is also ideal for setting shorter texts.Before being published by Linotype, Shilia underwent major adaptation and updating, and is now available in the modern OpenType format. Shilia is at home in both worlds, that of the East and that of the West. Taking one of the oldest variants of Arabic script, the minimalist Kufic, as his inspiration, Mamoun Sakkal fashioned simple stroke shapes that are combined according to a geometric grid.
Because of this, Shilia is the ideal choice for any bilingual project and for use in international corporate branding.Shilia™ had its beginnings in the 1970s. SHILIA – AN ARABIC FONT THAT LIVES HAND IN HAND WITH LATIN TEXT CHARACTERSA special design principle underlies the Arabic font Shilia created by Mamoun Sakkal: the form of the characters means that they harmonise happily with sans serif Latin fonts, such as Univers.
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