The Arabic Type Design Archive

Born in 1947, Kameel Hawa is a Lebanese artist, painter, graphic designer, and writer. A graduate of the American University of Beirut and with no formal art education, Hawa began to paint intuitively in the 1970s. He was mostly inspired by daily life objects and domestic scenes, with seated women, friends, and acquaintances, flowers in vases, and birds on wires being his favorite subjects. In the preceding years, the focus of his daily work drove him away from painting as a central activity, though it remains, in his own words, ‘the paramount means of his artistic expression.’ His art, design, and writing have many common traits, the most evident of which is the ease of expression without compromising the profoundness of feeling and overwhelming passion.

Hi, I’m Ehsan, a graphic designer and typographer. My passion lies in blending different lettering and calligraphic cultures. In collaboration with Nahaaki Studio, I’ve had the honor of designing and redesigning logotypes for well-known brands such as Delester and Abali. For the typeface Doran, together with Reza Bakhtiari-Fard and Fereshteh Iranshahi, I designed the Armenian version of the font.

Recipient of the Excellence in Typography award from Type Directors Club. Designer and developer of the Wall Script plugin for Glyphs software.

Designer typographique indépendante, Elena Schneider est originaire d’Allemagne. Après avoir obtenu un diplôme en graphisme à l’Université des sciences appliquées et des arts de Dortmund, elle a cofondé RADAU, un studio de graphisme spécialisé dans la typographie et le design éditorial. En 2011, elle a effectué un master en design typographique à l’Université de Reading. Actuellement installée à son compte, elle travaille essentiellement sur la création de polices de caractères et de lettrages, mais aussi parfois sur des projets de design graphique. Elle partage son temps entre Hambourg, Dortmund et Húsavík.

Artiste Plasticien vivant et travaillant à Alger J'ai été tour à tour étudiant puis enseignant à l’Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-arts d’Alger, j'expose depuis une vingtaine d'années en Algérie et à l’étranger, j'exerce aussi en tant que graphiste au sein du quotidien El Watan. Je me suis spécialisé en typographie Mon parcours pluridisciplinaire me permet aujourd'hui e d'aller vers de nouveaux horizons, je me propose donc de créer pour vous des typographies ainsi que vos identités visuelles

Founded in 2018, Original Type sets out to produce and publish original, contemporary typefaces, both retail and custom, that enable creatives and brands express themselves in an authentic way.

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".

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.

Arabictypography.com is an independent type foundry designing and producing original multilingual digital fonts that respond to specific market needs. Our key expertise is in languages using the Arabic script and additional other scripts matching or working in harmony with Arabic. Our retail fonts library includes a collection of stylish typefaces that we have designed and that are available for immediate purchase in different licensing models. Our fonts vary in styles and design and are specifically designed for a variety of usage possibilities in branding and communication.

This is KO-type. The move you probably anticipated, that will knock all free font-haters out of their chairs. That was a joke. Kotype is a community dedicated to the love of Arabic fonts. Whether it’s appreciation, creation, or simply usage, we are all connected by the love of Arabic Fonts, just like our love for the Arabic language.