It depends on the scope: how many versions and lockups the logo needs, for which markets, and where it has to work, from a shop sign to an app icon. After a free 30-minute call you get a fixed written proposal, so the price never changes mid-project.

Yes. I can keep your English logo as it is and design the Arabic to match its stroke weight and contrast, then build the side-by-side and stacked lockups. If the English logo needs cleaning up first, logo refinement covers that. The bilingual logo itself usually takes 2 to 4 weeks, with weekly check-ins in your time zone and two revision rounds per phase.

In the UAE and Saudi Arabia, usually not by law, but in practice yes: the rules and official policies there ask for Arabic text, not an Arabic logo. The UAE government says shop signs are in Arabic and English, food labels in both countries need Arabic, and Saudi Arabia’s Arabic language policy covers commercial signs, invoices and ads, so an Arabic logo keeps them one brand. Qatar is stricter: Law No. 7 of 2019 requires trademarks and trade names in Arabic, with any other language less prominent, so a word mark there needs an Arabic version. Your lawyer can confirm your market’s rules.

Transliteration keeps the sound of your name in Arabic letters; translation keeps its meaning. A 2022 study of local brands’ shop signs in a few Riyadh and Jeddah malls, photographed in 2020, when local trade names had to be Arabic, found 17 signs with an English name in Arabic: 16 used a transliteration, one a translation, and nearly all set both scripts at about the same size. Since 2025 Saudi trade names can be in English, with an Arabic transliteration that similarity checks are based on. Have native speakers in your market confirm the sound and meaning before you commit.

Each direction is shown on a shop-sign mockup for your market. A Dubai shopfront carries one trade name, laid out horizontally with Arabic on top, so you need a stacked lockup. Abu Dhabi’s 2022 rules let a sign carry a business logo and a second language in Latin letters. Saudi Arabia’s 2020 ministry rules allow only the trade name, commercial registration number and logo, if the registration lists one, in raised letters, unless the municipality approves another design. Riyadh and Makkah have their own sign guides, and for restaurants the ministry ranks a city’s guide above its own.

No. In a right-to-left layout the navigation and the back and next arrows flip, but the logo stays as drawn: Apple’s design guidelines say a flipped logo confuses people and can have legal consequences. Digits need a decision too: Unicode’s locale data makes Arabic-Indic digits (٠١٢٣) the default for Saudi Arabic and Western digits (0123) the default for UAE Arabic, so the Arabic typeface should carry both sets.

Yes: Lacio (لاسيو), a sewing and lace supplies shop in Iraq, with a symbol, the English name and the transliterated Arabic name in one lockup. Its identity sets English in Montserrat and Arabic in Cairo, a typeface based on the Kufi calligraphic style. It’s shown in the article “Designing a bilingual brand in Arabic and English”, under Related reading on this page. The projects on this page are English-script work: Lyvio was designed for the Middle East market, and Reva7’s monogram works alone or with its wordmark.