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2011/09/29

Kamineh

KAMINEH [meaning minimal in Persian] is an experimental Persian-Arabic typeface designed by Tehran based designer, Iman Raad in 2005, to developed the idea of designing an ultra minimal Persian-Arabic typeface. It is made up of a combination of Quranic Kufi script and Square Kufi script. All letterforms are made by rotating, mirroring and moving around the baseline of only 11 basic forms, each composed of simple square modules.

Qur'an folio Square Kufi Basic forms Alef Jim Daal Shin Taa Ain Gaaf Mim

Of course it is not readable enough to be used for a text book, but is an experiment to see how far could the Persian-Arabic script be pushed towards minimalism. Kamineh follows the Persian-Arabic script connecting rules by different in initial, medial and final letterforms of Alphabets. However, the connectors are not visible.

Kamineh Kamineh MIEC Minimal Stories Iman Raad

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