The Arabic Type Design Archive

Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication from Sourah University in Tehran. Over the past few years, he has worked as a freelance brand and packaging designer for various brands and startups. After being introduced to the field of type design, he found it interesting and decided to pursue it further.

A graphic designer and typographer since 2008. Naser specializes in executing projects related to typography and logo design. .

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.

Toshi Omagari is a type designer born in Japan. After graduating from Musashino Art University in Tokyo, he went on to study typeface design at the University of Reading in 2010–2011. Since then, he has been working full-time as a typeface designer in the UK. He won the 2014 Modern Cyrillic competition with Marco and received the TDC Certificate of Excellence in Type Design 2014 for Metro Nova. Toshi also translates typographical content of all kinds of media to Japanese, such as Fred Smeijers’s Counterpunch, Doug Wilson’s Linotype: The Film, and Georg Seifert’s font editor Glyphs.

Painter, Graphic Designer and Typeface Designer Selected Activities and Awards: Member of the Type Directors Club (TDC) Member of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATYPI) Jury Member of the 1st International Typeface Design Biennial, Tehran Jury Member of the 5th Silver Cypress Awards in the Typeface Design category, Tehran, 2017 Jury Member of the 7th Granshan International Typeface Design Competition Jury Member of the 8th Granshan International Typeface Design Competition Jury Member of the 9th Granshan International Typeface Design Competition Type design instructor at the School of Fine Arts and Vijeh School of Graphic Design Selected in the Signage category of the 7th Iran Graphic Biennial Best Poster Award from the President of the Biennial at the 9th Iran Graphic Biennial Selected Award in Calligraphy-Painting at the 2nd Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial First Prize in Typeface Design at the 2nd Silver Cypress Exhibition Award from the Type Directors Club (TDC) at the 68th Type Design Competition Typeface Designs: Chista Typeface Nashr Karnameh Typeface Kara Typeface for Hamkaran System Post Iran Typeface Karafarin Bank Typeface Dorsa Leather Brand Typeface Museum of Contemporary Art Typeface Cheshmeh Publishing Typeface Espinas Hotel Typeface

Hi, I’m Vitória and this is my playground! Just in case you were wondering, “Seven” is my last name backwards. Since I believe that designing typefaces is the ultimate level of dedication to letterforms I created the SevenType Studio – an independent type foundry.

Founded by Neil Summerour in 2000. A trained designer, lettering artist, and calligrapher, Summerour established Positype to accentuate the craft behind producing typefaces. The subtleties of mass, perfect imperfections, warmth, and uniqueness are foundational tenets to developing the foundry’s commercial offerings with the ultimate goal of producing useful and reliable fonts.

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.

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.

Atlas Fonts publishes original typefaces for today’s global reading experiences. Dedicated to professional use in editorial, brand, and interface design, Atlas’ typefaces offer multilingual, multi-platform solutions. Carefully crafted details and thoughtful features enable designers to achieve refined typography and innovative visual identities. Our typographic systems are built to perform across all environments – from large-scale to micro text, from one script to another. Each growing collection of high-quality font families is meticulously developed and extensively expanded. What began nearly twenty years ago as an academic playground for language, reading behavior, and typographic design has evolved into a studio dedicated to developing comprehensive typographic systems. We aim to solve the complex challenges of multi-platform typography in a globalised world for each individual native reader. Founded in 2012 by Christoph Dunst, Atlas Fonts is based in Berlin, Germany.