Designing with type, building with AI.
01 — Book & cover design
Covers and series systems for publishers and authors, built in InDesign and Illustrator.
02 — Typesetting
Five sample chapters I typeset in English and Arabic. Drag to turn a page, hover to magnify, or show the baselines.
03 — AI projects
Tools I designed and built end to end. Hifdh.uk and Deckhand are live; the rest are desktop apps I use daily.
The tool that drew the covers.
For the Forty Hadith series I needed calligraphy I could reshape for every volume, so I built Mistara: real Arabic shaping turned into editable vectors.
Each volume is now a data file. Shape the word, export it, and a script places it in InDesign as CMYK paths.
04 — Websites
Sites I designed, wrote and built. Two are bilingual, with Arabic laid out right to left, not mirrored.
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A daily wird, a hifdh plan with a finish date, the full mushaf and a makharij trainer.
Design · build · data
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A book design studio: real covers, the process from manuscript to print, and booking, in English and Arabic.
Design · copy · bilingual build
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A branding studio for identity, campaigns, social and print, in English and Arabic.
Design · copy · bilingual build
I design and typeset books, mostly Islamic titles in English and Arabic, from manuscript to print and ebook. I also build software, usually the tools I need for my own work and study.
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Read
The manuscript, then the brief: who reads it and how it should feel.
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Design
Two or three cover routes and sample spreads, on real pages.
- 03
Set
Styles, grids and parent pages in InDesign, with Arabic set properly.
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Proof
Corrections, then a preflight: fonts, bleed, images and no widows.
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Deliver
Print PDF, cover wrap, ebook and the packaged InDesign files.
Design
- Book & cover design
- English & Arabic typesetting
- Series systems
- Arabic & Latin typography
- Brand identity
AI
- Speech recognition (Whisper)
- LLM pipelines & agents
- Spaced repetition
- On-device ML (MLX)
Build
- JavaScript, Python, Swift
- WebGL & WebAssembly
- Cloudflare, Modal
- InDesign & Illustrator scripting
Languages
- English
- Arabic (classical)
Selected work forKube PublishingJaryah BooksJaryah StudiosIndependent authors