Dubai Font

Dubai
Designer(s) Nadine Chahine (chief designer)
Commissioned by Government of Dubai
Foundry Monotype Imaging
Date released 2017
Variations
  • Dubai Light
  • Dubai Regular
  • Dubai Medium
  • Dubai Bold
Website www.dubaifont.com

Dubai Font is a typeface commissioned by the Government of Dubai and designed by a six-member team led by Nadine Chahine from U.S. based firm Monotype. It contains both Latin and Arabic script. The font, launched on 30 April 2017, is available for the users of Microsoft's Office 365, and also could be downloaded freely from DubaiFont.com. It will be used by all government departments in Dubai, according to the instruction of the Dubai Executive Council. It is the first Microsoft font named after a city. [1][2]

Languages

It supports 23 languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Britannic, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Farsi, Portuguese, Sami, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish and Urdu. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Dubai Font to be designed for Microsoft products.
  2. ↑ "Dubai becomes first city to get its own Microsoft font", BBC News, 1 May 2017
  3. ↑ Dubai unveils official new font.
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