Lemonada - Google Fonts

About

Lemonada is a modern Arabic and Latin typeface family designed by Mohamed Gaber and Eduardo Tunni. It started with the Latin design Lemon, which Eduardo Tunni expanded to four weights. The Arabic was designed by Mohamed Gaber.

The Arabic design is contemporary, starting with Naskh and introducing influences of Diwani. It has wide and open counters that improve readability at smaller text sizes, while its more subtle details make it a great display face at larger sizes.

Lemonada is currently available as a variable font with a weight axis, four static fonts (Light, Regular, SemiBold, Bold), and a wide character set that supports the Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu languages.

The Lemonada project is led by Mohamed Gaber, a type designer based in Cairo, Egypt. To contribute, see github.com/Gue3bara/Lemonada

Designers

Mohamed Gaber

Mohamed Gaber (Cairo, 1986) is a type designer and artist based in Amsterdam. His primary interest lies in the haptic nature of type production and its technological, philosophical, and historical aspects. He holds a Master in design from Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam). He has founded Kief Type Foundry (a type foundry specialising in open-source Arabic fonts), TypePlatform (a research space for under-represented writing systems focusing on Arabic script), and co-founded TypeLab at Sandberg Instituut (an open platform to experiment with typography). He taught as a guest tutor at AUC (Egypt), VCU (Qatar), and Linnaeus University (Sweden). In addition, he often gives workshops and talks around the world. His type design work is featured on Google fonts, and his artworks were exhibited in DDW (UAE), CTM 2020 (Germany), Venice Biennale 2020 (Italy), MK&G-Hamburg (Germany), Mediamatic (Netherlands), and VCU (Qatar). His work was nominated for the Jameel Art Prize in 2013 and awarded Best Arabic Display font from Granshan in 2016.

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Eduardo Tunni

Eduardo Tunni was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1963. He studied graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and later specialized in typographic design. He co-founded the type foundry "Tipo" and some of his published there fonts were exhibited, selected and awarded around the world. For 10 years he was a teacher of the Master Career of Type Design at the UBA where he continues as external consultant. He made multilingual custom fonts for magazines, newspapers, universities, companies and countries with the collaboration of other colleagues. He has developed design methods that have been incorporated into the main typography design software that collaborates with typographic production.

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