Latin usually is very vertical, and Arabic is very horizontal. So to get them to talk to each other, we introduce a little bit of the opposite—but in a way where you’re not defying convention. The Latin has to stay Latin; the Arabic has to stay Arabic. And it’s this understanding that it’s okay to be different that sort of unlocks things—you don’t have to mimic, but you see if they can live together. And this is bigger than design, for me. This is politics, at the end of the day. Most of the Arabic typefaces that I’ve designed, they’ve been companions to existing Latin typefaces, and maintaining the equality between the two is very important to me. Nadine Chahine .