![]() ![]() She says: ‘We were quite happy with the way the new design direction was going. In Nadine Chahine words, the concept changed following ‘a frenzied weekend’s work’ after which she showed the design to Gerard Unger at the ‘Kitabat, Arabic Calligraphy and Typography Conference’ in Dubai, in April 2006. In late March of 2006, she decided to change the direction of the design from a simplified Naskh style font to a simplified Kufi style, working towards developing a signage typeface rather than a newspaper textface. ![]() According to Nadine Chahine, Capitolium’s monumental proportions, with minimal ascender and descender heights and large x-height, lend themselves to being translated quite naturally into the Arabic Kufi style, especially since Kufi is often traditionally used for architectural lettering. The Latin Capitolium typeface was originally intended as a sign-age typeface designed for the information system of the city of Rome to mark the jubilee of the Roman Catholic Church in 2000. ![]()
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