When Kuwait ads need type that reads, not another pretty still

Consultancy questions for the ‘this poster has to be readable in Arabic or English’ job — the line, the crop, and when a designer should still set the type.

The job is a poster, a story, a print file. Someone has to read the offer at a glance — price, date, a name — in the language the street already uses.

Teams ask for “AI images.” That usually means a mood. The job is whether the letters survive a phone screen in Salmiya, not whether the scene looks expensive.

Letterforms on a desk — the thing the file has to keep honest
Letterforms on a desk — the thing the file has to keep honest

What we decide on a first call

Which line must appear, word for word. Whether that line is Arabic, English, or both, and who signs the wording. Which sizes you actually run — a square, a story, a six-sheet. What “readable” means: a person can say the offer back after one look.

If you cannot lock the copy, generation will invent a nicer slogan. We will stop there.

If the line is locked and the stall is layout volume, AI image generation can mean a type-aware queue: brief in, a set of frames where the letters still read, a person who fails the ones that lie. We will not treat a pretty sample as a print-ready system.

This is not catalog stills for a shop. A PDP has to stay true to a bottle. A poster has to stay true to a sentence. It is also not the Instagram generate-and-post loop. A meme can drift. A National Day offer cannot.

When we tell you to keep the designer

If legal owns every character, or the brand’s Arabic letterforms are the product, a person should still set the type. If the file has to match a printed pack on the shelf, we will not generate the label.

Kuwait flights often need the same offer in two scripts. That is two locked lines and two crops. It is not “make it bilingual” as a prompt.

AI consultancy writes the line, the crop, and the fail rule first. A batch comes after one person can reject a frame because the type is wrong.

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Last updated: 2026-09-05