Khatt Foundation

‘Nurturing cultural dialogue through design research and collaboration’

The Khatt Foundation has initiated several projects over the last 10 years aimed at addressing the bilingual and dual-script needs of contemporary design in the Arab world. Their current project, Typographic Matchmaking in the Maghreb, works on creating four tri-script font families that bring the script traditions of Arabic, Tifinagh and Latin together. These three script traditions represent the Arab, Berber and European culture and the Typographic Matchmaking project nurtures this cultural dialogue through design research and collaboration. Four teams, each consisting of one European and one Arab/Berber designer, are creating the tri-script font families. 

 

The Typographic Matchmaking in the Maghreb project explores the diversity of the Maghreb culture and at the same time works to find common grounds between the Arab, Berber and European cultures. The project is an unique and creative initiative that improves the dialogue and understanding between the European and Arab world. The Lutfia Rabbani Foundation granted two travel scholarships to the project for the period 2015-2016. You can read the story of Jan de Bruin, one of the scholars.