Characters
About Blaka
Blaka is an experimental typeface, enriching the gothic feeling of Black Letters by enhancing the
geometric features to create midgrounds with the Kufic style for the Arabic letterforms.
The aesthetical matching process between the two scripts relies on the features of being hand-drawn with a reed
pen. While Latin letterforms maintain sharp edges, Arabic relies on sharp edges and thick strokes to create overlaps
to replace a usual baseline in most letterforms, giving the Arabic letterforms contemporary features.
The font family comes in two styles, Blaka and Blaka Hollow, featuring an outlined version of the font. Blaka also
comes in two variants, the usual monochrome variants as well as an Ink variant Blaka Ink. The Ink variant
are color fonts where the colors are defined by the font itself. Support for color fonts is currently limited to few
applications like Google Chrome (version 98 or later).
To contribute, see github.com/Gue3bara/Blaka.
License & usage
Blaka is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it for free in personal and commercial projects: logos, websites, apps, videos, print and products. You may embed it and modify it; the font files themselves may not be sold on their own.
To use it on a website, add the files with @font-face and set font-family: 'Blaka', sans-serif;
View the full license text (also included in the ZIP).
