The Arabic Type Design Archive

A type designer and lettering artist, born in Beirut and based in Amsterdam. He holds a Master in Type & Media from the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague). He has co-founded TPTQ Arabic type foundry, Arabic Type Design — Beirut , the first international educational program of its kind and the Arabic Lettering Workshops traveling series. He has taught at LAU Beirut, ESAV Marrakech and currently teaches at the Type & Media master program (Royal Academy of Art — The Hague). He reguarly gives workshops and talks around the world. His work received several awards including the New York Type Directors Club’s Certificate of Typographic Excellence, ATypI’s Letter.2, and the European Design Award.

Laura Garcia Mut, a spanish Graphic Design student born and based in Valencia (Spain).

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.

type designer and founder of the Fontamin website.

A one-man type design studio specialized in high quality Arabic and Latin type design, logotypes, and type production.

NaN is an exploratory and service-driven type design practice balancing weirdness and wisdom. Together with our wonderful rag-tag team of collaborators, clients and crew, we explore the relationship type has with code and technology – delivering projects with purpose. You can expect to find us at the intersection of serious and slap-happy.

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.

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.

Colophon Foundry is an award-winning international type foundry, based in London and Los Angeles, that designs and publishes high-quality retail and custom typefaces. The foundry is known for creating both historically-rooted and contemporary fonts, and for its custom work with major brands like Burger King and Cadillac.