Harmonizing Bilingual Layouts

Under the influence of globalization and multinational communication, the English language has become the steering script utilized in visual design. It has displaced other local languages and scripts and imposed a monolingual design outcome. This affected the design process and the end-product both globally and locally, fueling the loss of local design culture and dismissing the local script in countries where English is not the primary language of communication.
This paper highlights the importance of bilingual Latin-Arabic typographic layouts, in order to preserve the Arabic script, the local language and culture alongside the mainstream.

Journal: Design & Culture. Taylor & Francis.

Abdel Baki, R. (2024). Harmonizing Bilingual Layouts: A Proposal of Latin–Arabic Typographic Classifications. Design and Culture, 16(1), 1–19.

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17547075.2023.2232603