TDC Awards

Established in 1953, the TDC competition is the longest running, most prestigious, global typography and type design competition. For over 70 years, it has recognized typographic excellence and celebrated new typeface designs in all global languages.

2025 TDC Awards - Type Design

29LT Idris Flat + Sharp

Agency 29LT / Madrid

Client Digital Independant Type Foundry

Category

Multiple Axis Type Family (ie weight + width)

Annual ID

TDC71_TD021

A crafted bi-script modern Arabic Naskh and Serif Latin typeface, designed with three axes: weight, contrast, and extension. Drawing inspiration from historical influences and underpinned by extensive research on a lead type from the 1950s, this typeface has been enhanced with cutting-edge technology for body text and display purposes. Developed using the latest Arabic type technology available within the OpenType realm, the typeface is drawn with a 2º baseline slant, extensive contextual alternates capable of generating thousands of 2, 3, or 4 letter combinations, and contextual anchors that prevent overlaps between base forms and diacritic dots or accents. Contextual kerning adjusts the kerning of broken Arabic words based on the horizontal height or the initial letters within the word in relation to the preceding letter. Additionally, the variable font’s Extension axis allows users to adjust Arabic cups and baseline elongation, enabling precise justification of Arabic texts and word width determination.

2025 Awards

Total Points: 20

TDC Winner

Credits

Type Foundry

29LT / Madrid

Type Designer

Pascal Zoghbi
Linda Hintz

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