The “Moorish arch” treatment of certain letters on a 2001 book on Dutch design, executed by René Knip, provided the inspiration for this exotic unicase typeface. The font also includes arabesque designs in the brace, florin and section mark positions.

The OpenType, TrueType and Windows PostScript versions of this font contain the complete Unicode 1250 Central European character set in addition to the standard Unicode 1252 Latin set.