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From Kufic to Contemporary: The Evolution of Arabic Calligraphy

How a handful of scripts, shaped over fourteen centuries by scribes and master calligraphers, became one of the richest visual languages in the world, and how designers put it to work today.

Sina Naji · May 28, 2026 · 5 min read
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