The Arabic Type Design Archive

An award-winning Lebanese type designer. Nadine has an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK; a PhD in legibility research from Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a Master of Studies in International Relations from Cambridge University.

Seyed Mahdi Seyedinia, born in 2002 in Kashan, is an active and experimental designer in the field of type design (logotype, typography, and typeface design).

Type designer and engineer, He entered the field in 2014 after initially being involved in lettering. Indonesian scripts piqued his interest, particularly in the area of font engineering. Started his own foundry in 2015 called AlternaType to explore his questions about the world of typography. Simultaneously, He pursued a study in Arabic Language and Literature at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. In 2020, He joined Schriftlabor and became involved in various stages of type development. And now working as a freelance drawing and engineering for another foundries.

Graphic Designer Member of Iranian Graphic Designers Society (IGDS) Recipient of the "Ebtekar" font design award at the inaugural Annual Book Design Art (2015)

Borna Izadpanah is a Lecturer in Typography at the University of Reading, from where he was also awarded a PhD, and an MA in Typeface Design. His doctoral research explored the history of the early typographic representation of the Persian language. Borna has received numerous prestigious awards for his research and typeface design, including the Grand Prize and the First Prize for Arabic Text Typeface in the Granshan Type Design Competition, two Awards for Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club, and the Symposia Iranica Prize for the best paper in Art History.

TSfonts type studio was founded by Tarek Alsawwa in 2019 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey. We have developed a strong library of beautiful fonts, which we own and license to designers, advertisers, and brands. We're constantly crafting and adding new fonts to keep our body of work fresh and relevant.

A type foundry and design studio specifically focused on developing high quality Arabic typefaces. It is the result of a collaboration that started in 2011 between Kristyan Sarkis and Peter Bilak of Typotheque.

Lettersoup is an independent type foundry based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded by Botio Nikoltchev in 2014. The main focus of lettersoup is cooking fonts with Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic taste.

DSType is an independent type foundry, founded in 1994. Since then we had the opportunity to work with some of the world’s most recognized companies, brands, and publications while creating an extensive and comprehensive catalog of high-quality typefaces. We have received numerous awards, including a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design by the Type Directors Club and we have been featured in several magazines, newspapers, books, and exhibitions worldwide. You will be able to see our work at most newsstands, several packaging, world-known brands, and global scale events.

Latinotype is a Chilean digital type foundry founded in 2007 that designs and distributes high-quality fonts inspired by Latin American culture and global influences. They have a large library of fonts, are considered a leading type company globally, and offer custom font services.