The Arabic Type Design Archive

Font designer and typography researcher since 2011 I created multiple font families, including Maneli, Hilda, and Mehrgan

Bahraini Calligraphy Artist & Graphic Designer, His portfolio extends to fields as diverse as Islamic art, font design & web development... Adobe Tools.

He was born in Teheran. After completing his school education in Iran,he studied illustration and book design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG), an academy of design, in Offenbach, Germany. Thereafter he was engaged as art director in various advertising agencies in Germany, Switzerland and England. He also worked as a freelance graphic designer with focus on illustration and brand designing for leading producers of brand articles in Europe, and also for broadcasting stations in Germany and other European countries. He was occupied with theoretical work in the field of color and research in the passive perception of color and "after image" phenomena. He carried out an analysis of the letters of the Arabic alphabet and a definition of their structure, enabling him to design a number of modern types of Arabic script. The publication of the illustrated quatrains of Omar Khayyam is his most recent project. He devoted five years of intensive and creative study to produce the book. Naghi Naghashian created the Arianª font family in 2009 and Aban font family, Jasna font family, Anahita Headline font, Avesta ExtraBoldCondensed, Ahoura font family, BiBi Font family, Decora one, Decora Two, Bamdad ExtraBoldCondensed and Parsi Font family in 2010 and 2011.

He has MA in visual communication. Since 1999, he has worked as a graphic designer with various magazines and publications, such as "Parian Publications, Donya-e Eqtesad Publications, Zanbour Publications, Porteghal Publications, Safir Publications, Saipa Andisheh Gostar Monthly, etc."

Artiste Plasticien vivant et travaillant à Alger J'ai été tour à tour étudiant puis enseignant à l’Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-arts d’Alger, j'expose depuis une vingtaine d'années en Algérie et à l’étranger, j'exerce aussi en tant que graphiste au sein du quotidien El Watan. Je me suis spécialisé en typographie Mon parcours pluridisciplinaire me permet aujourd'hui e d'aller vers de nouveaux horizons, je me propose donc de créer pour vous des typographies ainsi que vos identités visuelles

We are a type foundry situated in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark. For more than twenty years we have been making retail and custom-made typefaces for international brands.

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.

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.

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.

F37® Foundry is an award-winning type foundry that creates fonts and logotypes to help businesses stand apart. As well as understanding the minutiae of letterform aesthetics, we create beautifully crafted type families that align perfectly with the identities and sensibilities of the companies we work with.