The Arabic Type Design Archive

Hirbod Lotfian is a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran, a Post-Master’s student in Type Design in France, and a member of the Iranian Graphic Designers Guild. Awards & Recognitions: Excellence in Typography Award – Type Directors Club, USA 2nd Place & Special Mention – Granshan 1st Prize & Silver Sarv (2019) and Honorable Mention (2013) – Iranian Graphic Designers Guild 1st Prize – Annual Book Design Art Competition

Joe Hatem is a Lebanese type-designer (born 1961 in Hammana, Lebanon) who founded JH Fonts, a foundry producing Arabic, Latin, and multilingual fonts. After studying in the United States and working as a systems engineer, he turned to font design driven by his belief that many existing Arabic digital fonts lacked the authentic calligraphic feel.

Instructor of specialized graphics course Master of Graphics Design :Visual artist

Born in 1982, Rasoul Kamali is a graphic designer, instructor, and art researcher. He holds a Master's degree in Visual Communication and a PhD in Philosophy of Art. He is also a faculty member at the University of Art in Isfahan.

Kourosh Beigpour is an award-winning graphic artist and designer originally from Kermanshah, Iran, now based in Los Angeles. His distinctive design approach fuses contemporary and traditional influences, earning him recognition worldwide, with his works being published in over 20 countries. Beigpour has collaborated with prestigious clients, including Google, The Broad, The J. Paul Getty Museum, UCI, UCLA, NEIU, OSU, Canada Type, the Powerhouse Museum, DoppelHouse Press, and The Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture. His work is also part of the permanent collection at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). He founded K-B Studio in 2011 and has recently completed a fellowship at Stanford University, where he focused on advanced research and projects in type design. Beigpour holds a BFA from Tehran University of Art and an MFA from Limkokwing University in Malaysia. He also graduated from Type West in San Francisco with a Postgraduate program in Type Design. Deeply influenced by his Kurdish heritage and mysticism, these cultural elements are integral to his design philosophy. Kourosh continues to innovate in typography, weaving spiritual and mystic influences into his creative work.

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.

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.

Monotype Fonts transforms the way modern brands work by making font licensing and management simple, secure, and scalable across teams.

NamelaType is a type foundry based in Magelang, Indonesia operated by Nur Syamsi and Bustanul Arifin. Passionate about harmonizing Latin and Arabic fonts, we aim to create innovative solutions that align their weight, shape, and style—despite their opposite flows—while exceeding our own and our readers’ expectations.

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.