This design has its origins in a visit of my friends at DecoType in Amsterdam in August 2008. While roaming their personal library Thomas Milo showed me a little book printed with Arabic foundry type.

The type used was a curious fount I had not come across before. Its unusual and at times peculiar character attracted my attention. Upon my return to Paris, I started to investigate its history and quickly discovered that the punches for this face – the so-called Arabe maghrébin – were cut in the middle of the nineteenth century by Marcellin Legrand in Paris. Yet, apart from this, thorough information about its origins, its development and use were hard to come by and I had to pursue my own research about this typeface.

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