Lara Captan

Arabic lettering – and its evolution – based on the Diwani calligraphic style. This piece was originally drawn to be on a garment as part of a collaboration with London-based @consul.studio for @artists.for.aid fundraising concert (Los Angeles, January 2026). We didn’t use it, so it can live here for now as a 2026 wish for the world. :-)

I’ve had the pleasure to collaborate with the talented designers @consul.studio , in creating Arabic letterings for part of the merch design of the @artists.for.aid fundraising event, as well as a calligraphic “Peace” that found itself on stage. Thanks to Sudanese Canadian singer-songwriter @mustafathepoet , all participating musicians, off-stage teams, and audience, the ‭$‬5.5 million raised have been donated to The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and The Sudanese American Physicians Association. May we all keep helping one another.

Excited about my upcoming online presentation: Type Makes Words and Words Make Type. On the occasion of giving a talk on the @words_of_type platform, I’ll be diving into the power of words and how searching for vocabulary and defining concepts, parameters and all sorts of things, never cease to play a major role in my process of making Arabic type. You can join us live on September 19, 2025 3:00 to 4:30 PM CEST Online, in English 20€ The lecture will be recorded. If you can't make it to the live session, you can still get a ticket with a link to its recording. Tickets can be found here: /

Next lecture, with @lara_captan 🤩💖✨ Type Makes Words and Words Make Type Live on September 19, 2025 3 to 4:30 PM CEST Online, in English 20€ This will be recorded. If you can't make it to the live session, you can still get your ticket now and you will receive a link to its recording on YouTube! Tickets on link in bio or at /

MORE GREAT NEWS Do you want to join the Donald Knuth and Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator? There are FOUR spots still available to the Arabic group. Starting this summer in June 23, until July 24. Fully online and recorded for participants. 10 sessions, 2 per week, from 1,5 to 3 hours. With lectures, 2-sessions workshop, critique feedback, discussions with a superb line-up, and a presentation of your work with amazing surprise guests 😎 @abeerakamran @lara_captan @azalam @kamal.a.mansour @fercozzi_letras @letterformarchive @stanfordsilicon @firstgenprofessor More details and tickets at link in bio or / This program has been created in partnership with @stanfordsilicon and @letterformarchive 💖

My darling Beirut, I wanted to draw what you are to me: A city in perpetual motion—joyful, playful, and endlessly surprising. This Arabic lettering is my contribution to the group “exhibit-in-a-booklet” entitled: And you remained distant when we arrived curated by Amin Alsaden, and held at Rose and Shaheen Saleeby Museum in Beirut. I’ve also added a selection of my sketches and visual thoughts on page 2. The exhibition will be on until July 15, 2025, so if you’re in Beirut, do go as it is in dialogue with a parallel showcase on modernist Art in Lebanon, including many forerunners of the local Hurufiyya movement. Copies of the booklets are being sold at the gallery and include the Beiruts of: Antoine Abi Aad, Imad Gebrael, Karim Farah, Khajag Apelian, Kristyan Sarkis, Lara Assouad, Nada Abdallah, Naji El Mir, Pascal Zoghbi, Sally Mallat, Wael Morcos, and Yara Khoury Nammour. Thank you Amin (@amin.alsaden , also for the booklet interior photo) and AUB Art Galleries (@aubartgalleries ) for this lovely project! (The booklet cover image is taken from the AUB Galleries website.) #aubartgalleries #arabiclettering #arabicletters #الخط_العربي #artinlebanon #beirut #بيروت #beirutart

“Peace upon a land that was created for peace, but has not seen a peaceful day” Mahmoud Darwish. Or not yet… All we have left as puppets of the insanity of the world’s leaderships is to hope for this peace, everywhere and for everyone… #arabiclettering #arabicletters #mahmouddarwish #mahmouddarwishquotes #محمود_درويش #الخط_العربي #lara_captan #تصميم

Here is the postcard designed by @lara_captan It is part of our limited edition typographic Christmas card set, created specially for St Bride Foundation. These cards will bring joy and a smile to your friends and loved ones, or would make a perfect gift for the designer or print aficionado in your life (or for yourself). Sets include: Nine A5 postcards (one of each design with space to write your message on the back), carefully packaged together in a C5 grey gusset string and washer envelope. You can find out more and purchase your set via the link in our bio. All proceeds from sales of these cards will help fund the upkeep of our Grade II listed Victorian building, management and conservation of our unique and irreplaceable library collections and running of our print workshop and learning programme.

Feeling a bit Tim Burton-esque for this contribution to the 42 Days Of Arabic Type initiative – Day 19. #٤٢_يوم_غين #42Days_Ghain #42DOAT #42DOAT2023 #42DaysOfArabicType #٤٢_يوم_من_الخط_العربي #٤٢يوم٢٠٢٣ #arabictypography #arabictype #العربية #الخط_العربي #اللغة_العربية

I intended to celebrate and launch my Arabic type foundry on this International Women’s Day 2023. But as these things go, I’m still busy writing stories and editing the EULA. Nonetheless, it’s dear to my heart to announce that my almost public type foundry is named after my mother, Amale, as a homage to continuity and forward-thinking Arab women and in honor of the foundry’s core value of creating warm, inspiring, and long-lasting connections with people. The website will be up soon. For now, you can stroll around @amafoundry . The Latin lettering of the logo was designed by my dear friend @iamariamontes .

Arabic lettering and poster design for my dear friend @kano.nada 's latest dance piece: Over The Edge. This contemporary dance performance is a must see! Showing from tomorrow January 12th until the 15th at 20:30 at Le Monnot Theater in Beirut. Tickets sold at Antoine Ticketing. Poster photo by @eliebekhazi , with dancers maria_20_8 & @daniel.moussa30 . #le_monnot_officiel #beirut_dance_company #overthedge #contemporarydance #danceinlebanon # الخط_العربي #lara_captan #arabiclettering

Kanat Arabic wood characters [2015>2017] / sketch / first letterpress use / Riso ghost. The Kanat is a homage to Wiek Molin, the late director of the GWA / [typo]Grafische Werkplaats Amsterdam, who, along with Corine Elemans, were the initiators of this project. Kanat is the Turkish word for “the wing”. The wood type set was CNC milled in pear wood by Rutger Paets. 167 sorts, Dutch type height, size 189 pt. #gwamsterdam #arabictype #typedesign الخط_الطباعي# #الخط_العربي #lara_captan #تصميم