The Arabic Type Design Archive

Mike Abbink est le directeur exécutif de la création dans l’équipe Brand Experience and Design au sein d’IBM. Il a démarré sa carrière en 1996 en tant que designer chez MetaDesign à San Francisco. Il est ensuite devenu directeur de la création pour le Museum of Modern Art, pour Wolff Olins, pour Saffron Consultants et pour Method (dont il est également le cofondateur). Il a par la suite occupé le poste de directeur du design chez Apple Computer. En parallèle de sa carrière de graphiste, Mike Abbink a également créé des polices au caractère énergique pour lesquelles il a reçu plusieurs récompenses, telles que FF Kievit, FF Milo, GE Inspira, Brando Serif et Sans et, plus récemment, IBM Plex®. Enfin, Mike Abbink continue de concevoir et de collaborer à la création de polices avec Bold Monday.

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

A graphic designer and type designer. Born in 2006, he has been professionally engaged in Persian type design since 2022. In his early years, his focus was on graphic design, but gradually, with a deeper involvement in typeface design, he shaped his professional path. He is the designer of the free fonts Rooyin, Sorena, and Estedad Mad, which reflect his approach to simplicity, readability, and the contemporary needs of Persian typography.

Born in 2004 in Tehran. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. Student of the University of Arts. Type designer and font developer.‍

Santiago Orozco is a type designer and engineer specializing in screen and print typography, with nine years of experience shaping fonts, information design, and art direction. Based in Norway, he currently contributes as a Type Designer at Font Bureau and Typemade, blending craftsmanship with code across font development and typography projects. His career also includes leadership roles as Operations & Art Director at OnixMedia and as Art Director/Information Designer at Danilo Design Group, illustrating a strong track record in creative direction and technical execution. He actively engages with the typography community as an organizer at tipografiamx and collaborates with Fontdeck and Typekit, reflecting a global, design-forward ethos. A proponent of simplicity, he applies web, mobile, and design sensibilities to deliver clean, legible type systems and user-friendly typographic experiences.

We specialise in letters in a broad sense, from type design to lettering, from Latin to Arabic, passing through other scripts such as Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew and Thai. We are surrounded by a network of bright collaborators and consultants in order to ensure the best possible quality. Our work has been recognised internationally in several type competitions such us TDC, ED-Awards, Morisawa, Granshan, Modern Cyrillic and Horouf.

29Letters Type Foundry S.L. [29LT] is dedicated to creating and publishing multiscript typefaces. Its Arabic and Latin typography leading edge arises from its collaborative team of professional Arab and European type designers crafting high-quality typefaces. Besides publishing unique retail fonts, 29LT frequently joins forces with renowned international branding, design, and advertising agencies to deliver high-end typographic solutions, such as bespoke fonts and wordmarks.

Arillatype.Studio® is a type design studio exploring the intersection of creativity, craft and technology. We design contemporary retail typefaces and charismatic custom fonts.

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

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.