Gustella Stripes Arabic
TYPE BY · Thomas Thiemich · 2020
The striped variant of Thomas Thiemich's Gustella superfamily, combining extreme reverse-contrast letterforms with a horizontal stripe treatment across both Latin and Arabic scripts.
About
Part of the Gustella superfamily first released in 2019, the Arabic extension arrived in December 2020 to cover both Latin and Arabic scripts with identical metrics across all four weights. The stripe treatment applies a decorative horizontal fill to the already extreme reverse-contrast structure, tracing a lineage from nineteenth-century wood type through hippy-era lettering and on to precision-driven digital design. All four Gustella variants (Solid, Stripes, Inline and Boxed) share metrics, allowing them to be layered or overprinted for compounding effect.
Classification
Gustella Stripes Arabic is a display typeface built on reverse-contrast, ultra-high-contrast letter forms with a striped decorative treatment applied across both Latin and Arabic scripts. It belongs to no conventional classification and is best described as an ornamental display type.