Today’s National Post featured this image of Jebel Ali ‘Palm Island’ being built on the coast of Dubai. As you can see, some of the floating islands are in the shape of Arabic text, making up what must surely be the largest piece of lettering in the world.
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I’ve heard it said that size doesn’t matter (but I haven’t heard that from a typophile).
According to the palm’s website the “elevated retreat homes linked by boardwalks” spell out a passage from a verse by H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rachid Al Maktoum, “Take wisdom from the wise — not everyone who rides a horse is a jockey.”
Helpful, if you thought all horse riders were jockies.
I wonder what size that is in points?
Actually, wait, I think you measure type that big in lines, yeah?
I wondered if maybe the text was a message to commuting aliens: ‘If you lived here, you would be home now’.
“If you knew Arabic, you could read this from space.”
(Which reminds me, I must get out my Pimsleur Arabic sometime.)
Captured from web.archive.org on 15 May 2005. view this capture
