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Shire Arabic specimen from Jeremy Tankard Typography

A single-weight Arabic display font extending Jeremy Tankard's Shire Types family, drawing on the idiosyncratic vernacular lettering traditions of Britain and translating that spirit into Arabic script.

About

Shire Arabic is sold as a single font at a constant heavy weight, designed for headings and titles rather than body text. It forms part of the broader Shire Types family, which spans block sans, unicase and chunky scripts inspired by British vernacular lettering. The Arabic cut brings that same expressive, hand-lettered sensibility into a new script context.

Classification

An Arabic display script inspired by British vernacular lettering traditions, extending the Shire Types family into Arabic script. Its heavy weight and expressive character place it firmly in the display category.

Weights

Regular

Languages

Arabic

Tags

arabicvernaculardisplayheavyscriptexpressivetitlinglettering

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