The Arabic Type Design Archive

Type designer and engineer, He entered the field in 2014 after initially being involved in lettering. Indonesian scripts piqued his interest, particularly in the area of font engineering. Started his own foundry in 2015 called AlternaType to explore his questions about the world of typography. Simultaneously, He pursued a study in Arabic Language and Literature at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. In 2020, He joined Schriftlabor and became involved in various stages of type development. And now working as a freelance drawing and engineering for another foundries.

He is an Egyptian type designer who specializes in Arabic type design, and a software developer whose areas of expertise include font engineering, text layout, localization, and internationalization. Khaled is also an amateur artist.

Artur (b. Netherlands, 1976) caught the type bug at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague where he graduated in 2003 with a master’s degree in design from the Type and Media course. He has been working in the type industry ever since. In 2018 he founded Original Type, an indie type foundry that believes that type is essential to express authentic and unique voices.

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.

Ahmadreza Rahimi, born in 1987, is a graphic design graduate. His main activities are in the fields of logotype design, typography, and calligraphy, and he is also active in the field of calligraphic painting. Ahmadreza Rahimi has been awarded in more than 10 national and international festivals

TSfonts type studio was founded by Tarek Alsawwa in 2019 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey. We have developed a strong library of beautiful fonts, which we own and license to designers, advertisers, and brands. We're constantly crafting and adding new fonts to keep our body of work fresh and relevant.

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

SIL International works with local communities to develop language solutions that expand possibilities for a better life. A small team specializes in developing fonts for world scripts including Arabic, Burmese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Greek, Gunjala Gondi, Hebrew, Latin, Lepcha, Miao, New Tai Lue, Tai Viet, Tifinagh, and Yi.

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

Alif Type the online home for my, Khaled Hosny, typefaces. It is a virtual type foundry, in the sense that there no physical place, a company, or employees, it is just me doing things I love mostly in my spare time. My typefaces are all free, and open source.