The Arabic Type Design Archive

Omaima Dajani is a graphic and type designer from Jerusalem, specializing in Arabic script. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication and a Diploma in Art and Design Education from Jerusalem, as well as a Master’s degree in Type Design from the Royal Academy of Art in the Netherlands. Omaima has collaborated with leading type foundries and is the award-winning designer of the typeface Lifta. She has also served as a judge in both local and international type and design competitions. With experience in teaching, she is also a lead researcher at the Arabic Design Archive (ADA) and the founder of Palestine Type Walks.

Born in 1962, I am a type designer based in Barcelona and Son (Alt Àneu). I design retail and custom typefaces at typerepublic and I have been awarded with several Excellence in Type Design for my type design work. I am a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) and ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale). I hold a PhD in Design from the University of Southampton (UK) and teach typography and type design at EINA, University School of Design and Art, in Barcelona. Apart from these type affairs, I also love hiking and riding on my mountain bike.

Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication from Sourah University in Tehran. Over the past few years, he has worked as a freelance brand and packaging designer for various brands and startups. After being introduced to the field of type design, he found it interesting and decided to pursue it further.

He has MA in visual communication. Since 1999, he has worked as a graphic designer with various magazines and publications, such as "Parian Publications, Donya-e Eqtesad Publications, Zanbour Publications, Porteghal Publications, Safir Publications, Saipa Andisheh Gostar Monthly, etc."

An award winning type and graphic designer from France and of Tunisian heritage. She holds a master's degree in Création Typographique from École Estienne in Paris. After working with various studios for ten years between Paris and London, she established her independent practice, where Latin and Arabic type design coexist with visual communication. Her approach to design is centered on storytelling through letters.

A global type design studio that offers high-quality typefaces for retail licensing and custom client projects.

Canada Type is an independent digital lettering and font development studio based in Toronto. We were founded in 2004 by a couple of experienced designers who were not pleased with the quality and licensing terms of fonts around the turn of the century. Since then we have greatly expanded, built a versatile and popular retail catalogue, and helped many designers bring international attention to their talents in the constantly changing and increasingly competitive world of type design.

At Manchester Type, each project begins with research. Every typeface they develop is pushed along by passion and curiosity. Their fonts are often informed by the history of letterforms and always aimed at contributing to today’s type-culture.

Parachute® is a European type foundry and design agency founded in 2001, specializing in bespoke type design, corporate typefaces, and lettering for global brands.

Founded in 2018, Original Type sets out to produce and publish original, contemporary typefaces, both retail and custom, that enable creatives and brands express themselves in an authentic way.