Both scripts have affected each other in several ways through the entire design process, which happened within ten years.Palsam has an inviting, approachable, fashionable and humanist look. The Arabic and Latin scripts were designed at the same time, to make a true authentic bilingual typeface.

The typeface was designed to be used for setting text and titles of contemporary Arabic content, specially magazines, and websites. Since the beginning, Palsam was intended to be a super multilingual family, with a real cursive Arabic companion, and a display cut. The latin script was designed in collaboration with the Slovenian type designer Alja Herlah. PalsamArabic only covers the Arabic script. It supports over 40 languages that use the Latin extended, as well as Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu Languages. More than 1000 characters are included per weight, including small caps, fractions, old style and lining numbers, ligatures, contextual ligatures, and discretionary ligatures. With true cursive companions in five weights, and many opentype features, Palsam grants all the tools needed to set complex information and editorial designs applications. Moreover this script was used in margins, and to highlight specific content inside a paragraph in older manuscripts. Since the Ijaza is a hyper combination of Naskh and Thuluth, which makes it perfect to be a companion for the upright Naskh. For the first time, the calligraphic Ijaza style was used as a model for designing the Arabic cursive.

Thanks to its low contrast, open apertures, detailed calligraphic strokes, and smooth counters, which also make it easy to read at smaller sizes.The main highlight for Palsam was the Cursive companion.

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