Iranian Poster vs Kufic
イランのポスター / クーフィー体
Iranian Poster comes from Regional Graphics and Kufic from Calligraphic Traditions. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Iranian Poster
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The Iranian graphic culture Morteza Momayez opened: the line of Persian calligraphy fused with modernist composition, growing a poster tradition that speaks in poetic metaphor across revolution and war.
Kufic
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Keeps the uprights short and draws the horizontals long, massing letters of straight strokes and right angles into a band of even height.
| Iranian Poster | Kufic | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1960s– | 8th century onward |
| Family | Regional Graphics | Calligraphic Traditions |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Calligraphic line as form / Poetic metaphor / The compositional force of Persian script / A restrained palette | Horizontals drawn long / Short angular uprights / Letters turning at right angles / Lines massed into an even band |
| Best used for | Cultural event announcements that speak in metaphor rather than explanation · Setting Persian and Latin script as equals on one sheet | Cutting an inscription into a wall or a vessel as a band · Using the angular letterforms as figure, for titling and marks meant to be read from a distance |
| Type | Turn one calligraphic stroke into the image and keep text small at the edge | Fix the ratio of upright to horizontal first, and turn every corner at a right angle |
| Composition | A single image at the center with generous emptiness around it | Align the top and the foot of the line, space the uprights evenly, and run the letters as a band |
| Material | Two or three flat colors, counting the paper white as one | Cut into stone, brick and tile, and on parchment hold the stroke to an even weight with the reed pen |
| Caution | Piling metaphor on until every clue to the subject is gone leaves a sheet that never tells anyone what the event is. | Copying only the right angles while breaking the joins between letters leaves an ornamental band that no longer reads as a word. |