The Arabic Type Design Archive

With over 15 years of experience in graphic design and typeface creation, he has designed several fonts, including Farhoud, Capsule, Ostad, and Melli.

Recipient of the Excellence in Typography award from Type Directors Club. Designer and developer of the Wall Script plugin for Glyphs software.

An Egyptian designer specializing in Arabic type design, lettering and branding. Based between Cairo and Dubai, he brings over a decade of experience to the field of contemporary Arabic typography.

I started my studies in architecture in Baghdad, before shifting into graphic design, working for years in advertising, branding, and editorial projects with local and international clients. Later, my path expanded toward humanitarian work, collaborating with NGOs in places like Aleppo during critical times. Along the way, I lived in Florence, and spent time traveling across historical cities like Baghdad, Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Beirut, always fascinated by the handwritten calligraphic signs, the energy of street lettering, and the dialogue between architecture and typography, another way of staying close to people and culture.

Born in 1996 Graphic Designer Typographer Logo & Visual Identity Designer Founder of Hadaf Design and Printing Institute • Designer of Lahzeh Font • Designer of Valman Font

An independent type foundry based in Barcelona dedicated to the design and distribution of digital fonts. Founder and principal designer Andreu Balius has experienced type design since the late 1980’s.

Founded in 2018, Original Type sets out to produce and publish original, contemporary typefaces, both retail and custom, that enable creatives and brands express themselves in an authentic way.

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.

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.

Being the first and most experienced independent font foundry from South America, PampaType was founded in 2001 in Argentina by Alejandro Lo Celso, with the purpose of developing high quality typefaces for the widest range of uses, engaging in both retail & bespoke font industries. Since then their passion and work, which pioneered the Latin American type design scene, have become widely known and appreciated. Their typefaces have been broadly recognized for their quality and originality, and their team have become more international and more experienced. They believe in the idea of diversity. It is not unusual that PampaType families include various styles, some of them meant for immersive reading, some others for titling or decorative use. Their fonts are carefully handcrafted. They pay serious attention to details so characters look good both printed and on screen. Spacing and kerning are made by hand following visual strategies rather than mathematical methods. Therefore instead of feeling mechanical, their fonts build an organic rhythm, aiming at a friendly atmosphere and comfortable reading.