The Arabic Type Design Archive

Graphic designer who likes vector types based in Indonesia. He has loved drawing letters and Arabic calligraphy since he was a child, studied the basic rules of Arabic calligraphy at the Islamic Boarding School and Graduated from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta. When he met GlyphsApp in 2019, he started designing his own typography, and was enthusiastic about harmonizing latin and arabic fonts.

Hasan is a prolific Arab designer living in Gaza/Palestine. He’s been running Hiba Studio since 2007. He has designed several Arabic fonts such as Hasan Alquds in cooperation with Mamoun Sakkal and Hasan Hiba, a traditional Kufi font. Hasan Hiba along with one of his other designs Hasan Noor were recently upgraded to the DecoType font format for use in WinSoft Tasmeem now bundled with InDesign CS4. Hasan Abu Afash has also developed complex opentype layout features for numerous Arabic fonts such as the Arajhi family for the Alrajhi Bank of Saudi Arabia, the Jumeirah Arabic font designed by Pascal Zoghbi and Huda AbiFares for Jumeirah International/UAE, the Seria Arabic font family designed by Pascal Zoghbi for FontShop International, Alinma TheSans fonts designed by Luc(as) de Groot and Mouneer ElShaarani for Al Inma Bank and Chams Arabic font family designed by Al Mohtaraf Assaudi.

A type designer and multidisciplinary artist. In 2014 he launched his own type foundry under the name Abjad. In 2020 he launched his own concept store, inspired by Arabic Calligraphy, and the diversity of the visual culture that spread across Islamic lands. He also co-founded the social design initiative Wajha in 2012.

Began his journey in type design through Persian graffiti. He holds a degree in Sculpture from the University of Tehran’s Faculty of Fine Arts and has collaborated with leading Tehran-based studios such as Kargah and A4 in designing custom typefaces.

Typeface & Logotype designer Cooperation in the design of Latin characters and the expansion of the Yekan Bakh font family with Reza Bakhtiarifard

We are a type foundry situated in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark. For more than twenty years we have been making retail and custom-made typefaces for international brands.

Founded in 2009, the Indian Type Foundry (ITF) designs and distributes fine-quality multilingual fonts for both Indian and global markets.

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.

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.

A leading and established boutique type foundry known for creating fonts that are distinctively human and full of character.