Rosetta type blog

Titus Nemeth is looking back on the development of Nassim, his genre defying Latin-Arabic typeface – an ongoing process, spanning over ten years.

Following the redesign of the mother-page of the BBC News, BBC Arabic and BBC Persian launched their redesigned websites. These are probably the first, and certainly the biggest websites yet to use webfonts – Arabic webfonts that is. The BBC uses custom versions of Nassim by Titus Nemeth. The typeface was painstakingly optimised for screen and for the web.