Nasri Khattar (1911–1998) (Arabic: نصري خطار was an architect and type designer from Lebanon.
[1] Khattar was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his lifelong work on the Unified Arabic project.
He gave each letter of the Arabic abjad a single form instead of the four possible forms of an Arabic letter depending on its position within the word: initial, medial, final, and isolated.
He said that his writing system was economical because it would save paper and that it was easy to read and learn, but that it was for printing only—which is to say that handwriting would not change.
In 2013, the type foundry 29LT released a set of fonts reviving Nasri Khattar's Unified Arabic project after his daughter Camille Khattar Hedrick entrusted the firm to do so.