Arabic logo quiz!

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When we first moved to Doha, Justin and I drove around taking pictures of company logos in Arabic, in order to put together an identify-the-brand quiz. We never got around to actually making the quiz, though.

Happily, someone else has! Can you name the Companies From the Arabic Version of Their Logo?We got 100

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[jcreed]

Ah, I just missed "Uncle Ben's"... I had something like "adhka?bndh" transcribed because I mistook nūn for ḏāl, final zāy for final ḏāl, and lām for 'alif.

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All mistakes I have regularly made, especially with weird fonts

[jcreed]

Ah right these are all good things to note.

I had been thinking of an Arabic twf... :) I suppose I should just do all the isolated forms, if I'm just doing an "alphabet" at first rather than a complete font?

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I'd think that's totally legit; otherwise it's way too much work. I mean beyond the 3-4 standard forms you've got things like the taa marbuta and that y without the dots that's pronounced a and whose name I'm blanking on right now, and short vowels, and the shadda, and ligatures like لا.... Way too complicated.

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Yeah, well it's comparable do doing a few roman fonts of different weights --- which means that it's not a crazy project in general for me (well, except that I have no practice or ambient cultural familiarity with Arabic typography) but a bit much for TWF, yes :)

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Oh, that's what I meant -- I don't doubt you could do it, but I agree that doing just the isolated form would be the right scope for the TWF project.