Yekan Bakh
The Yekan Bakh typeface is carefully designed to meet modern needs, featuring a simple, neutral, and pixel-friendly style for print. It works efficiently in various contexts.
All characters in Yekan Bakh are crafted in a straightforward, minimalistic style. While it falls into the monoline category, its thickness isn't entirely uniform, This intentional variation, influenced by visual perception and the pen angle, enhances readability.
Reza Bakhtiarifard went beyond conventional limits by incorporating a variety of geometric shapes. The primary objective was to guarantee both readability and visual allure, with intriguing consideration given to optical illusions.
Font Licensing
For an additional user to use the font.To share the font with your designer or project partner. (details)
For one website or app and to share the font with 2 additional project partners. (details)
For small businesses to share the font with 5 additional employees and use it on one website.(details)
For unlimited use by companies in all their activities. A website builder, website templates and services that allow users to type with the font. (details)
Yekan Bakh
Font Weight Variety
The YekanBakh font features 8 weights (Thin, Light, Regular, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, Black, ExtraBlack) and 7 width levels (ExtraCondensed, Condensed, SemiCondensed, Normal, SemiExpanded, Expanded, ExtraExpanded), along with a variable version.
Extensive World Language Coverage
The font now supports 60 languages (19 under Arabic script and 41 under Latin script) and is usable in 95 countries (40 countries with Arabic script, 50 countries + 5 autonomous regions with Latin script).
Ligatures and Alternative Characters
Harmonized Visual Language and Design Pattern for Arabic and English Characters
YekanBakh supports 17 currencies and is usable in 75 countries.
By activating Stylistic Set 6, you can enable the exclusive symbols for Rial and Toman.
By activating Stylistic Set 7, you can adjust the vertical alignment of numbers and currency symbols.
Examples of Various Languages with Latin Script
Examples of Various Languages with Arabic Script
Font Features for Latin Numbers
In the redesign process of the Yekan font, the following actions were taken:
- The font weights were expanded from 2 to 8, and 6 width levels were designed, totaling 56 fonts.
- Exclusive design and completion of characters for 40 languages with Latin script and 20 languages with Arabic script.
- Exclusive design of 17 common currency symbols.
- Design and completion of various punctuation and mathematical symbols.
- Changes were made to harmonize the form, thickness, and size of characters relative to each other.
- Review and adjustment of spacing between joined and separate letters, as well as kerning.
- Overall shape changes for some letters were made, such as: د, ه, ه, ه.
- Design of swashed “ک” and an inverted “ی”.
- New design for the form of dots.
- Review of the form, thickness, and size of diacritics and adjustment of their positions.
- The bowl of ‘ع’ and ‘ح’ was reduced, and the lower baseline was shortened to ensure compatibility with user interface space.
YekanBakh in Use
In the Yekan Bakh (Pro+) font package :
Main Fonts: 8 weights and 7 widths, Available in TTF and OTF formats.
Web Fonts: WOFF and WOFF2 formats, along with CSS code.
Variable Font: 2 axes (weight and width).
Typographer, Logotype & Typeface Design Instructor • Design Irancell, Tehran Book Garden, Leila, Ravi, Abar & Paykan • Design MyBaby, Alibaba, Ayandeh Bank, Fanoos (Hamkaran System), Inverse School, Bonyade Koodak & InshapeBody typefaces in collaboration with Mahdi Ershadi • Design MIKA, Vazeh quranic typefaces, Dabestan & Ray typefaces in collaboration with Omid Emamian • Design Doran typeface in collaboration with Fereshteh Iranshahi • Design Yekan Bakh typeface (Redesigning Yekan Typeface) in collaboration with Mahan Jafarzadeh • Design Novin Web typeface (Redesigning Novin Typeface designed by Hirbod Lotfian) • Design Nian typeface in collaboration with Afsaneh Salek Notable Achievements • 3rd Place and Honorable Diploma - GRANSHAN Type Design Competition. • Grand Prize - Silk Road Biennial for Typeface Design. • TDC Typographic Excellence (2018) - Vazeh UI Quranic Typeface. • TDC Typographic Excellence (2018) - Ray Typeface. • TDC Typographic Excellence (2019) - Vazeh Classic Quranic Typeface. • Jury President of Tehran Type Week 3rd & Jury Member of Tehran Type Week 2nd
Typeface & Logotype designer Cooperation in the design of Latin characters and the expansion of the Yekan Bakh font family with Reza Bakhtiarifard
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