The Arabic Type Design Archive

A graphic designer specializing in brand identity design. As a designer building brand identities I realized the importance of good typefaces and I got interested in creating them, especially Arabic typefaces.

Hojat Nourolahi is a graduate of the University of Art, specializing in type design and font development. He is actively involved in the design and production of both Perso/Arabic and Latin typefaces

Born in 1982, Rasoul Kamali is a graphic designer, instructor, and art researcher. He holds a Master's degree in Visual Communication and a PhD in Philosophy of Art. He is also a faculty member at the University of Art in Isfahan.

Born in 1365 (1986) | Shiraz Bachelor's in Graphic Design | Non-profit Shiraz Art University Typographer and Typeface Designer Philosophy Typeface Design | 1400 (2021) Telegraph Typeface Design | 1401 (2022) Gramophone Typeface Design | 1402 (2023

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.

Monotype Fonts transforms the way modern brands work by making font licensing and management simple, secure, and scalable across teams.

DSType is an independent type foundry, founded in 1994. Since then we had the opportunity to work with some of the world’s most recognized companies, brands, and publications while creating an extensive and comprehensive catalog of high-quality typefaces. We have received numerous awards, including a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design by the Type Directors Club and we have been featured in several magazines, newspapers, books, and exhibitions worldwide. You will be able to see our work at most newsstands, several packaging, world-known brands, and global scale events.

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.

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.

Al Mohtaraf is a multi-disciplinary design house that offers a diverse and impressive experience in editorial design, branding and corporate identities, Arabic type design, print publications and space design from offices in Jeddah, Riyadh, Khobar and Beirut. We are one of the few specialized graphic design houses in the region. From a culture so rich in graphic tradition, Al Mohtaraf’s vision is to carry the seeds of tradition into the contemporary cultural scene of the Arab world.