The Arabic Type Design Archive

Majid Halakooi is a graphic designer and instructor. For couple of years, he has been pursuing design in the field of Persian typography.

Born in 1983 in Tabriz Typeface & Packaging designer Math expert I have been working as a graphic and packaging designer since 2009, and have been interested in typeface design for several years

He is an award-winning typeface designer whose work spans multiple scripts and design cultures. His path to type was anything but linear – having gone from juggling and organising concerts to working in visual communication, graphic design, illustration, web design, packaging, and animation. He finally chose to pursue his passion with typography. Kostas graduated the MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading with distinction and held a senior designer role at URW Typefoundry, before becoming one part of Foundry 5 in 2021. He enjoys innovative explorations in Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Arabic type design, and spends his time designing original typefaces, expanding script support of existing ones, and offering consultation for designers and type foundries such as Google Fonts, TypeTogether, and NaN. He has received acclaimed awards and recognitions for his work by the Type Directors Club, Granshan, EdAwards, EVGE, and Communication Arts, and he has served as a juror for both TDC and Granshan competitions. Among his most notable works is Averta, named one of the top 100 most-used web fonts. He co-designed Peridot Latin and Peridot PE, expansive families that support Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts with over 120 styles, as well as other popular fonts such as Commissioner, Oi, Zona Pro, and Evert.

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

An Arnold Boecklin letraset transfer, when he was nine years old. Since then, he hasn’t stopped playing with letters, written or drawn, working as a type designer, visual arts educator and creative director for print, digital and video. He has designed over fifty typeface families for Zetafonts foundry, which he co-founded with Francesco Canovaro and Debora Manetti . His typefaces include Cocogoose, Blacker (selected by Myfonts as one of the best new families of 2019), Monterchi (CA typography award 2020, Myfonts hidden gem 2019), Stinger (CA typography award 2021), Stadio Now (TDC68) and Keratine (CA typography Awards 2023). He has a cat named Bodoni and too many books.

An independent type foundry based in Barcelona dedicated to the design and distribution of digital fonts. Founder and principal designer Andreu Balius has experienced type design since the late 1980’s.

A global type design studio that offers high-quality typefaces for retail licensing and custom client projects.

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.

An independent type foundry based in Cairo, Egypt. Driven by the love of our Arabic heritage, we're on a mission to explore the wide boundaries of Arabic letters potential. Our motto is "Arabic lives, Arabic lasts".

Mestara which is a measurement tool means the “ruler” symbolizes our precision, we are a type foundry specialized in creating and designing Arabic typefaces. Founded by a professional calligrapher and designer, Mestara aims to reflect the beauty, and modernity while respecting traditional calligraphic principles.