The Arabic Type Design Archive

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.

I have a degree in Graphic Design and have been a member of the Iranian Graphic Designers Society (since 1987). I am involved in typeface design, font development, and logotype design. I have publicly released the Potk and Borna fonts, and I designed the Ayandeh, Ali Baba, Bonyad Koodak, Fanoos, and Inverse fonts in collaboration with Reza Bakhtiari Fard. The design and creation of the Kamand font in collaboration with Omid Emamian, as well as the development of the Valman font, are among my latest activities. I have held various workshops and courses in the field of typography, and I received the third Grand Prize at the 2021-2022 Granshan competition in Armenia for the Ali Baba font and a special award for the Potk font.

A graphic and type designer, a lettering artist, a researcher and an instructor from Jerusalem, where she obtained a BDes in Visual Communication, specializing in graphic and typographic design. She is a trained social archivist at Khazaaen and a researcher at the Arabic Design Archive (ADA), as well as the founder of the ArabicTypeWalks in Palestine. Currently, she is pursuing her MA degree in type design at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Her interest spreads across the whole spectrum of Arabic design from Arabic type design, lettering, typography, calligraphy, Arabic design history, and all what is in between.

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.

About. Founded in 2014, Black[Foundry] grew from a shared passion for typography and attention to detail. Over the years, we’ve brought together a committed, international team in central Paris, collaborating with clients and partners worldwide.

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.

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 Netherlands-based type design company, recognised internationally as experts in multilingual typography and creating innovative font solutions for both global and local audiences.

NamelaType is a type foundry based in Magelang, Indonesia operated by Nur Syamsi and Bustanul Arifin. Passionate about harmonizing Latin and Arabic fonts, we aim to create innovative solutions that align their weight, shape, and style—despite their opposite flows—while exceeding our own and our readers’ expectations.