The Frutiger font, originally designed by Adrian Frutiger for the signage at Charles de Gaulle Airport, is celebrated for its clarity and legibility at a distance. The challenge for Chahine was to create an Arabic counterpart that matched Frutiger’s clean, humanist aesthetic while retaining the distinct cultural identity of Arabic script. The result was Expo Arabic, a family that pays homage to the early 20th-century Egyptian typographic renaissance.
She smiled. The Expo Arabic Font Family was no longer a collection of static letters. It was a living bridge. Expo Arabic Font Family
Traditional Arabic fonts feature dramatic thick-thin contrasts. Expo Arabic employs a monolinear approach (consistent stroke weight). This is not only aesthetically aligned with modern minimalism but also essential for screen rendering, as it eliminates the "jaggies" (aliasing artifacts) that plague variable-width strokes on digital displays. The Frutiger font, originally designed by Adrian Frutiger