An early in-use example of the Awan Arabic typeface, before an extended version was released as AwanZaman by TypeTogether in 2016. Awan is used for the titles of the magazine. The font used for the nameplate on the cover is Hacen Promoter. On the interior pages, titles in Awan are combined with text in Muna Bold.

This special issue of the magazine Shabab al-Kuwait (“Kuwait Youth”) is about philanthropy activities of Kuwait youth in Indonesia, published by Alanba in 2012.

Letterhead, business cards and envelopes for Tariq Hajj Architects in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The firm name is in the unreleased font Sakkal Tali'i. All other text is in AwanZaman.

AwanZaman is used for the tagline “Tahrir, voice of the Arab people.” The main logo is in Times New Roman Bold. Text is set in Verdana, with headings in Georgia.

Joining the airwaves in 1990 Tahrir, ‘liberation’, highlights our aim as a free voice for Arab peoples in the USA and abroad. We broadcast in English every week over 99.5fm, a member of WBAI Radio Station with studios in New York City. — Radio Tahrir

This CAMS training manual was published in 2007. Titles and text are in Sakkal Majalla, with subtitles in Awan.

Annual report 2008 for Savola, “the leading strategic investment holding group for the food and retail sectors in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Turkey) region.” Titles are set in Awan, text in Sakkal Majalla.

Awan was a daily forward-thinking newspaper based in Kuwait, that was briefly published from November 2007 to May 2010, with an average circulation of 15.000 copies.

For the launch of Awan the global brand consultancy Fitch was engaged and associate design director in their Qatar branch, Anis Bengiuma wanted to have a new, custom typeface designed for the headlines. He conducted a search among known Arabic type designers, and selected Sakkal Design for this project.

The brief identified the look of the new typeface as modern, professional, prestigious, and reliable. It needed to be legible as a newspaper typeface, with low contrast and geometric forms to distinguish it from typical Arabic newspapers headlines fonts that have exaggerated baseline stokes. Working closely with the client’s design team, the Awan typeface was produced in two weights in a short time schedule.

The typeface was used for the newspaper headlines, usually in bold weight, and sub-heads and article titles, usually in light weight. With its novel and clean letterforms, the new typeface immediately distinguished the newspaper as a young and progressive periodical.

During the years of publication, Awan was an exclusive design for the newspaper. When the paper closed in 2010, the family was expanded to seven weights, a second typeface, Zaman, was introduced, adding calligraphic Naskh details, thus making it into a versatile tool, and a companion Latin was designed later by Juliet Shen. It became AwanZaman, and now released by TypeTogether.