Mada - Google Fonts

About

Mada is a modernist, unmodulted Arabic typeface inspired by road signage seen around Cairo, Egypt, by Khaled Hosny. The Arabic component is characterized by low descenders, open contours, and low contrast forms, making it suitable for signage, small point sizes, and user interfaces. However Mada can work also as a display typeface, with a modernist and simplistic feeling. The Latin component is a slightly modified version of Source Sans Pro, led by Paul Hunt at Adobe Type.

To contribute, see github.com/aliftype/mada

Designers

Khaled Hosny

Khaled Hosny is an Egyptian type designer who specializes in Arabic type design, and a software developer whose areas of expertise include font engineering, text layout, localization, and internationalization. Khaled is also an amateur artist.

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Paul D. Hunt

When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of this Google Fonts Knowledge module is to show that there are many considerations that can improve our type choices. By setting some useful constraints to aid our type selection, we can also develop a critical eye for analyzing type along the way.