The Arabic Type Design Archive

Font designer and typography researcher since 2011 I created multiple font families, including Maneli, Hilda, and Mehrgan

Vitória Neves is a letterer and type designer from Portugal. Vitória has a background in German, English and Spanish Literature and Languages studies. She decided to quit her career in teaching to pursue her childhood passion for letters. After creating some logos and lettering for clients, Vitória adventured herself in creating typefaces, since she believes this to be the ultimate level of dedication to letterforms. Her main focus resides in script typefaces.

A graphic design graduate who has been working professionally since 2005. He has collaborated with leading graphic design studios in Tehran for years and strives to bring a fresh perspective to type and typography—balancing readability, modernity, and innovation.

You've probably heard the tired cliche about a picture being worth a thousand words. I've taken the opposite of this phrase quite literally and created Arabic fonts that could turn your words into stunning typographic masterpieces, each worth a thousand pictures!

Salam and welcome! I am Bandar (46 years) working on Graphic/Motion/Logo design since 1999 (24 years in the business) and working on Desktop, Web, and Mobile apps since 2007. Feel free to explore my previous work, and get an idea of the services that I provide as a UI/UX consultant and designer.

Abjad aspires to develop and transfer the Arabic typography, to the same level, that was reached by Arab and Muslim calligraphers, who came from very diverse cities and civilizations, extending from Samarkand and China in the east, to Andalusia in the west. This diversity has produced countless forms and schools of Arabic calligraphy.

Babelfont is an independent type foundry in Paris and Marrakech. We design multiscript typefaces — Arabic, Latin, Tifinagh, and Korean. Our goal is simple: connect cultures through letterforms.
 The language of the future is multiscript.

F37® Foundry is an award-winning type foundry that creates fonts and logotypes to help businesses stand apart. As well as understanding the minutiae of letterform aesthetics, we create beautifully crafted type families that align perfectly with the identities and sensibilities of the companies we work with.

Our names are Sahar Afshar and José Solé, and we are partners in life and in Dogray, a type foundry based in the south of London. We met in 2017 in a type conference⁠—⁠here’s to our dearly departed TypoLabs Berlin⁠🍻⁠—⁠and hit it off (we actually met in 2015 at our friend Kalapi’s wedding in India, but that’s a story for another time). After working in a large type design studio for some years, we decided to leave the safety of our full time jobs and get back to what brought us to making fonts in the first place; the joy of creative decision making in the design of typefaces, and reconnecting with the wider design community. We started Dogray Type Foundry to do just that; to enjoy designing fonts we feel will be useful, and bring fun back into our careers. Very importantly, we wanted to embrace collaboration over competition; we center co‑creating at the heart of our foundry⁠—⁠not just in combining our individual strengths and skills, but also by using each of our library fonts as an opportunity to collaborate with a different creative from the wider fields of Arts and Humanities. We do this because of our fundamental belief; that best work happens when unique and diverse perspectives collide.

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.