Ping Round, an unapologetically warm but constructed typeface

In 2020, we published Ping Arabic, the counterpart of our sister foundry Typotheque's Ping, dubbed a 'whole-world typeface' for its support of a large number of writing systems including Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese. The complete project went on to win a Gold European Design award and Ping Arabic easily became one of our most popular fonts.

We introduced Ping Arabic as typeface with constructed and organic influences due to its simplified and fairly geometric forms infused with the influence of the hand and writing.
Ping Round Arabic takes the organic elements (i.e. continuous strokes, friendly and comfortable proportions, compact forms) a step further by rounding all the stroke terminals. This makes Ping Round even warmer, more approachable and suitable for a wide range of applications from signage to children's books.

Ping Round Arabic was designed by Kristyan Sarkis. Oscar Guerrero assisted with the production of the fonts and Liang Hai engineered the final fonts. The Latin counterpart was designed by Peter Bilak assisted by Nikola Djurek.

Specimen Design: Shiva Nallaperumal