The Arabic Type Design Archive

A graphic designer and type designer. Born in 2006, he has been professionally engaged in Persian type design since 2022. In his early years, his focus was on graphic design, but gradually, with a deeper involvement in typeface design, he shaped his professional path. He is the designer of the free fonts Rooyin, Sorena, and Estedad Mad, which reflect his approach to simplicity, readability, and the contemporary needs of Persian typography.

Santiago Orozco is a type designer and engineer specializing in screen and print typography, with nine years of experience shaping fonts, information design, and art direction. Based in Norway, he currently contributes as a Type Designer at Font Bureau and Typemade, blending craftsmanship with code across font development and typography projects. His career also includes leadership roles as Operations & Art Director at OnixMedia and as Art Director/Information Designer at Danilo Design Group, illustrating a strong track record in creative direction and technical execution. He actively engages with the typography community as an organizer at tipografiamx and collaborates with Fontdeck and Typekit, reflecting a global, design-forward ethos. A proponent of simplicity, he applies web, mobile, and design sensibilities to deliver clean, legible type systems and user-friendly typographic experiences.

Born in 1996 Graphic Designer Typographer Logo & Visual Identity Designer Founder of Hadaf Design and Printing Institute • Designer of Lahzeh Font • Designer of Valman Font

A type designer and typographer. His internationally recognized practice spans commercial and cultural work, with a focus on Arabic and multilingual design. Titus’s interests and activities extend to academic research and teaching in higher education: His monograph Arabic Type-Making in the Machine Age was published with Brill in 2017, and he has taught type design and typography at schools in Austria, France, Morocco, Qatar, and the UK.

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.

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.

TNTypography in Paris, and specializes in Arabic typeface design, typography and custom type. A 2006 graduate in the Master of Arts Typeface Design programme at the Department of Typography and Visual Communication, University of Reading, he also studied Arabic script at the École Supérier d'Art et de Design d'Amiens, France. Titus holds a PhD in Typography & Graphic Communication from the University of Reading, UK.

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.

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.

Monotype Fonts transforms the way modern brands work by making font licensing and management simple, secure, and scalable across teams.