The Arabic Type Design Archive

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 typeface designer, graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, and studied at the Boys' Fine Arts Conservatory. He has been working as a designer since 1400 in Hamzeh, Olgoo, and A4 Design House, and has been working in the fields of graphic design, visual identity design, branding, motion graphics, and 3D modeling. His interest in typeface design initially manifested itself in typographic works, and eventually entered the field of font design with the design of the "Hafez" font. The "Hafez" font was also praised as a work worthy of appreciation in the second Tehran Typing Week.

Born in 1362 in Kermanshah Typeface and logotype designer He is a PhD student of graphics at Tehran University. in different universities such as; Al-Zahra, Soura, Apadana (Shiraz) and... teach graphic courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. Also, various research works of his in the field of graphics have been published in the form of books and articles. As a graphic designer with various collections such as; Pegah, Mino Industrial Group, Biomax, Pishgaman, etc. have cooperated so far.

" Art Director " -Branding -Graphic Design -Typographer -Font Designer -Photographer

Passionate about calligraphy and environmental design from early childhood, Ali Pezeshk learned every style of Persian and Arabic writing in early ages from local sign-makers and by looking at inscriptions in historical buildings of Iran. He studied Computer engineering and worked as Pre-press specialist at Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon) for 2 years, which gave him a good sense of font usage and typography in publishing. Then he experimented different fields of design and made his first font based on vintage Iranian film posters in 2016. After changing his filed of focus for about a decade, researching handmade papers and related artworks, he again started designing fonts based on his ideas evolved in the recent years about language and type.

Lettersoup is an independent type foundry based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded by Botio Nikoltchev in 2014. The main focus of lettersoup is cooking fonts with Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic taste.

This is KO-type. The move you probably anticipated, that will knock all free font-haters out of their chairs. That was a joke. Kotype is a community dedicated to the love of Arabic fonts. Whether it’s appreciation, creation, or simply usage, we are all connected by the love of Arabic Fonts, just like our love for the Arabic language.

Latinotype is a Chilean digital type foundry founded in 2007 that designs and distributes high-quality fonts inspired by Latin American culture and global influences. They have a large library of fonts, are considered a leading type company globally, and offer custom font services.

A global type design studio that offers high-quality typefaces for retail licensing and custom client projects.

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.