Diode Global Next
ديود جلوبال نيكست
On Tel Aviv buses, the next stop appears on low-resolution LED displays in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. But something was off: Hebrew text used thick double-pixel strokes while Arabic used thin single-pixel strokes. Hebrew also appeared twice as often in the rotation.
Was this hierarchy a technical necessity—Arabic being too complex for thick strokes on pixel displays—or a design choice? To find out, I designed a bitmap font matching the exact pixel dimensions of these bus displays, testing both single and double-pixel strokes for all three scripts.
The result? Arabic works perfectly with double-pixel strokes. The visual hierarchy wasn't technical—it was a design decision. This project became a multi-script typeface proving that when given equal consideration, Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, and many other scripts can coexist with equal visual weight in public space.
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Features
Diode Global New comes with many OpenType features which can be used to tailor functionality and aesthetics to your specific needs. Some of these features can be combined to form a great number of alternative variations.
Glyphs
Supported Languages
Arabic
Armenian
Cyrillic
Georgian
Greek
Latin
Language support data referenced from Hyperglot, a database for detecting language support in fonts.
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SIL Open Font License 1.1
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