Remember that bumper sticker from a while back?

[zwol]

You can now buy it, courtesy of Zazzle. (Slightly redesigned, font now URW Bookman. Still CC-BY.)

Comments

[lutin.livejournal.com]

fictive interaction?

[zwol.livejournal.com]

I like this on multiple levels: it makes the central fi-in-a-ring into a verb describing what the F and I are doing to each other (consistent with I (heart) (pictogram) bumper stickers); also, the bumper sticker - quite literally - came to me in a dream, which is as fictive as it gets.

[solconeja.livejournal.com]

I think it's cool because the word "fi" in Arabic means "in", and you have it enclosed by both a circle and the letters FI, which make it pretty meta in Arabic. I guess the cool part is that I assume you had no such intent.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Indeed, no intent whatsoever. But you tempt me to redo it in Arabic script somehow ... I've cargo-culted my way to "في" for the text within the circle, but is there even such a thing as uppercase Arabic?

[solconeja.livejournal.com]

Nope. You're stuck there. Writing the letters separately in Arabic (the equivalent of writing F-I, or F I, in English) does not make any sense in Arabic---it would not be read as a word. You could try leaving the outer one in English script, and just put a macron over the I.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

So, maybe something like this?

[solconeja.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it doesn't quite have the visual 'oomph' of the original.