page_title: Hassan Mourad
section_title: Font design – Hassan
hierarchical_section_title: Hassan Mourad / Exhibitions, publications and font design / Font design – Hassan
caption_attribution_description: English: Hassan® font family
context_page_description: Hassan Sobhi Mourad was an academic, a calligrapher, an artist, a researcher, an author and a poet. He specialized in Arabic Calligraphy, its development and teaching, drawing to all age groups, as well as contributing in writing art-related articles. Born in Syria, Hassan Mourad lived abroad in various countries and continents for over thirty-five years due to his career in diplomatic service. Though living abroad for most of his adult life, he remained passionate about the Arabic Language, its history and the art of Arabic Calligraphy. Mourad was influenced at the early age of 14 by a fellow Syrian writer without having ever met him; this artist, AbdulRahman Fakhoory, predicted a bright future in art for Mourad.
  Mourad was also influenced by other great Arab artists, such as Hashim the Calligrapher, the Turkish Hamid Alamady, Mostapha Raqim and Hamdallah Alamasy, as well as the Persian Meer Ali Tabreez, Abbas Akhaween and others. Having so many historical figures to look up to built a foundation of an ever growing passion for Arabic Calligraphy, which encouraged Mourad to learn the principles and arts with patience, diligence, and willingness.
context_section_description: In 1993, Hassan Mourad registered a custom Arabic font, Hassan, with Linotype. This font, which followed an individual Naskh style, is now also available in OpenType format.
caption: Hassan Font Family
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