The Arabic Type Design Archive

Rui Abreu is a type designer living in Lisbon. He graduated in 2003 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto, where he studied Communication Design. Rui became interested in type during his student years. His professional experience includes working in advertising agencies and publishing fonts, both independently and with other foundries. Currently, Rui is fully dedicated to his label, R-typography.

Graphic designer who likes vector types based in Indonesia. He has loved drawing letters and Arabic calligraphy since he was a child, studied the basic rules of Arabic calligraphy at the Islamic Boarding School and Graduated from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta. When he met GlyphsApp in 2019, he started designing his own typography, and was enthusiastic about harmonizing latin and arabic fonts.

When setting up to establish 29Letters Type Foundry in 2013, Lebanese designer and educator Pascal Zoghbi aspired to explore the diversity and potential of the Arabic script. Zoghbi envisioned 29LT with a cross-cultural approach. Having evolved, studied and worked in a multicultural and largely bilingual environment, he embraced multilingualism. Coming into contact with more than one language in his everyday life, he has developed an exceptional ability to think global and to reflect the various technical, conventional, and cultural writing systems into his work. Accordingly, he has excelled in creating innovative, high-quality contemporary multiscript type families, each of which is unique in its design approach and responds to regional and international market needs. Staying true to his culture, he worked on turning traditional Arabic script into contemporary type. Always on the lookout for new ideas and harmony between scripts, he explores various tools and techniques and regularly partners with a team of professional designers specialized in specific scripts to create multiscript typography.

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.

Typographer, Logotype & Typeface Design Instructor • Design Irancell, Tehran Book Garden, Leila, Ravi, Abar & Paykan • Design MyBaby, Alibaba, Ayandeh Bank, Fanoos (Hamkaran System), Inverse School, Bonyade Koodak & InshapeBody typefaces in collaboration with Mahdi Ershadi • Design MIKA, Vazeh quranic typefaces, Dabestan & Ray typefaces in collaboration with Omid Emamian • Design Doran typeface in collaboration with Fereshteh Iranshahi • Design Yekan Bakh typeface (Redesigning Yekan Typeface) in collaboration with Mahan Jafarzadeh • Design Novin Web typeface (Redesigning Novin Typeface designed by Hirbod Lotfian) • Design Nian typeface in collaboration with Afsaneh Salek Notable Achievements • 3rd Place and Honorable Diploma - GRANSHAN Type Design Competition. • Grand Prize - Silk Road Biennial for Typeface Design. • TDC Typographic Excellence (2018) - Vazeh UI Quranic Typeface. • TDC Typographic Excellence (2018) - Ray Typeface. • TDC Typographic Excellence (2019) - Vazeh Classic Quranic Typeface.

Monocotype is an independent type foundry based in Jakarta, Indonesia, specializing in retail and custom fonts that support multilingual typography. We design typefaces for Latin, Arabic, Korean, Thai, and other scripts, with a strong focus on clarity, cultural relevance, and cross-language usability.Our catalog includes everything from modern display fonts to technical single-line typefaces optimized for CNC, laser, and plotter use.Founded by Abdurrahman Hanif, Monocotype combines design precision with practical licensing, making our fonts suitable for brands, publishers, and creators worldwide.Discover more at monocotype.com or follow our updates on Instagram @monocotype.

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

Alif Type the online home for my, Khaled Hosny, typefaces. It is a virtual type foundry, in the sense that there no physical place, a company, or employees, it is just me doing things I love mostly in my spare time. My typefaces are all free, and open source.

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.