The Arabic Type Design Archive

Ahmed Abo Elhassan, a brand designer and lettering artist with 10 years of experience in brand identity, logotype, and lettering. Specializing in Arabic visual branding and the use of Arabic calligraphy in creative and contemporary styles. Passionate about creating visually-compelling designs that effectively communicate brand messages and values.

Born in 1947, Kameel Hawa is a Lebanese artist, painter, graphic designer, and writer. A graduate of the American University of Beirut and with no formal art education, Hawa began to paint intuitively in the 1970s. He was mostly inspired by daily life objects and domestic scenes, with seated women, friends, and acquaintances, flowers in vases, and birds on wires being his favorite subjects. In the preceding years, the focus of his daily work drove him away from painting as a central activity, though it remains, in his own words, ‘the paramount means of his artistic expression.’ His art, design, and writing have many common traits, the most evident of which is the ease of expression without compromising the profoundness of feeling and overwhelming passion.

Lebanese-Dutch Tarek Atrissi is one of the most recognized designers across the Arab world. He is the founder of Tarek Atrissi Design (www.atrissi.com), a design studio based in Barcelona and with offices in The Netherlands. The studio’s typographic and cross-cultural design approach has produced projects that have left a significant influence on the contemporary graphic design landscape in the Middle East, gaining Atrissi international recognition. Tarek Atrissi’s awards include the prestigious German Design Award, the D&AD Award, the Type Directors Club New York (TDC) Awards, the Adobe Design Achievement Awards, and the Brand Impact Awards, among others. He was listed in 2017 as one of the 100 most influential Lebanese professional figures around the globe. Early in his career, in 2005, he was selected for Print Magazine’s “Twenty under Thirty,” an international review of the most accomplished visual artists under the age of 30.

Hello, I am Ethar (pronounced Ee-thar), a visual and type designer with a passion for typography, motion, and digital design. I've been teaching myself Arabic type design, as I enjoy exploring the potential of digital type. Recently, I have started blogging to document my journey in design, with the hope of contributing to the enrichment of design resources in Arabic.

He holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Graphic Design from the University of Tehran. He completed type design courses under the supervision of Sedaghat Jabari and Masoud Sepehr at the university, while also attending independent workshops at Vije School with Damoon KhanjanZadeh. He has collaborated closely with various studios, including Kargah Studio, Sepehr Studio, Daftar Studio, and Markazi Studio, in type design and font development. His released typeface families include the exclusive typeface family for Saman Bank, the Royasamin font family, and the Roudaki font family for the Roudaki Foundation.

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.

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.

A leading and established boutique type foundry known for creating fonts that are distinctively human and full of character.

About. Founded in 2014, Black[Foundry] grew from a shared passion for typography and attention to detail. Over the years, we’ve brought together a committed, international team in central Paris, collaborating with clients and partners worldwide.

Founded in 2009, the Indian Type Foundry (ITF) designs and distributes fine-quality multilingual fonts for both Indian and global markets.