The Arabic Type Design Archive

Fereydoun Nematpour has been working as a graphic designer since 2005. He is currently working with Studio Plus, as a graphic designer.

An award-winning Syrian type designer. He is the principal and founder of Sakkal Design, based in the US. He started professionally as an architect and graphic designer but has been a full-time designer of Arabic fonts since 2002. He holds a PhD from the University of Washington in the History of Islamic Art. He collaborates with many type foundries and corporations, and his awards include 6 from TDC and Granshan competitions.

A one-man type design studio specialized in high quality Arabic and Latin type design, logotypes, and type production.

You've probably heard the tired cliche about a picture being worth a thousand words. I've taken the opposite of this phrase quite literally and created Arabic fonts that could turn your words into stunning typographic masterpieces, each worth a thousand pictures!

A type designer and lettering artist, born in Beirut and based in Amsterdam. He holds a Master in Type & Media from the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague). He has co-founded TPTQ Arabic type foundry, Arabic Type Design — Beirut , the first international educational program of its kind and the Arabic Lettering Workshops traveling series. He has taught at LAU Beirut, ESAV Marrakech and currently teaches at the Type & Media master program (Royal Academy of Art — The Hague). He reguarly gives workshops and talks around the world. His work received several awards including the New York Type Directors Club’s Certificate of Typographic Excellence, ATypI’s Letter.2, and the European Design Award.

A type foundry and design studio specifically focused on developing high quality Arabic typefaces. It is the result of a collaboration that started in 2011 between Kristyan Sarkis and Peter Bilak of Typotheque.

Abjad aspires to develop and transfer the Arabic typography, to the same level, that was reached by Arab and Muslim calligraphers, who came from very diverse cities and civilizations, extending from Samarkand and China in the east, to Andalusia in the west. This diversity has produced countless forms and schools of Arabic calligraphy.

Protype is an independent type foundry and a place to explore beautifully typefaces that are made with love.

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.

NaN is an exploratory and service-driven type design practice balancing weirdness and wisdom. Together with our wonderful rag-tag team of collaborators, clients and crew, we explore the relationship type has with code and technology – delivering projects with purpose. You can expect to find us at the intersection of serious and slap-happy.