The Arabic Type Design Archive

Typographer and a cover art designer since 2015. His skills lie in executing projects related to type design, typography, and cover design.

A Professor of Design and Typography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. Between 1993 and 2000 he was Senior Designer at MetaDesign, Germanya largest design and branding company, where he was responsible for major projects for the Berlin Transport Authority,Volkswagen, Bugatti and the German Government (for whom he re-vamped the German Eagle, symbol of the Federal Government).

An award-winning Syrian type designer. He is the principal and founder of Sakkal Design, based in the US. He started professionally as an architect and graphic designer but has been a full-time designer of Arabic fonts since 2002. He holds a PhD from the University of Washington in the History of Islamic Art. He collaborates with many type foundries and corporations, and his awards include 6 from TDC and Granshan competitions.

I started my studies in architecture in Baghdad, before shifting into graphic design, working for years in advertising, branding, and editorial projects with local and international clients. Later, my path expanded toward humanitarian work, collaborating with NGOs in places like Aleppo during critical times. Along the way, I lived in Florence, and spent time traveling across historical cities like Baghdad, Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Beirut, always fascinated by the handwritten calligraphic signs, the energy of street lettering, and the dialogue between architecture and typography, another way of staying close to people and culture.

A graphic designer, type designer, and calligrapher based in Zumaia (Spain). He has worked as a freelance graphic designer since 1997, and in 2013, he attained an MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading. During the MA in Typeface Design, he developed Amaikha, a multi-script font family comprising Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, and Tifinagh. Currently, he combines calligraphy classes and graphic design with typographic projects that focus on the Basque lettering style as well as multi-script typefaces involving the Latin, Arabic, and Tifinagh alphabets. He loves designing typefaces and maintains a healthy balance by rock-climbing.

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.

29Letters Type Foundry S.L. [29LT] is dedicated to creating and publishing multiscript typefaces. Its Arabic and Latin typography leading edge arises from its collaborative team of professional Arab and European type designers crafting high-quality typefaces. Besides publishing unique retail fonts, 29LT frequently joins forces with renowned international branding, design, and advertising agencies to deliver high-end typographic solutions, such as bespoke fonts and wordmarks.

Boharat is a type foundry that aims to introduce new flavors to the Arabic design scene. Boharat Cairo offers remarkable retail fonts, and accepts custom and bespoke fonts and typography related projects.

SIL International works with local communities to develop language solutions that expand possibilities for a better life. A small team specializes in developing fonts for world scripts including Arabic, Burmese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Greek, Gunjala Gondi, Hebrew, Latin, Lepcha, Miao, New Tai Lue, Tai Viet, Tifinagh, and Yi.