La Grotesque
La Grotesque is an effort to create Arabic & Latin in collaboration, like a conversation among friends, like a meal you prepare together. La Grotesque is a fun summer trip from Marseille (France) to La Marsa (Tunisia) via Marsala (Italy), celebrating the interconnectedness of the Mediterranean triangle that forms our cultural heritages. The Latin script is rooted in the warm, rounded forms of early 20th century wood type sans serifs. Maghrebi seems to follow its own rules, with letterforms and proportions varying significantly from one manuscript to the other and even within the same page in an unconventional, somehow grotesque manner. This trait parallels with the early Latin sans serif from the 20th century, allowing us to see Maghrebi as the grotesque of Arabic calligraphic styles.
Naïma Ben Ayed
TPTQ
