The Arabic Type Design Archive

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.

An Arnold Boecklin letraset transfer, when he was nine years old. Since then, he hasn’t stopped playing with letters, written or drawn, working as a type designer, visual arts educator and creative director for print, digital and video. He has designed over fifty typeface families for Zetafonts foundry, which he co-founded with Francesco Canovaro and Debora Manetti . His typefaces include Cocogoose, Blacker (selected by Myfonts as one of the best new families of 2019), Monterchi (CA typography award 2020, Myfonts hidden gem 2019), Stinger (CA typography award 2021), Stadio Now (TDC68) and Keratine (CA typography Awards 2023). He has a cat named Bodoni and too many books.

Holds a bachelor's degree in software engineering. Shahrzad has experience in programming with various languages and has also been involved in content creation and design for several startups. After becoming acquainted with "font development" as a tool to combine art and the science of programming, she developed an interest in this field and has been actively engaged in it.

Graphic Designer and Typographer Exhibitor of numerous calligraphy and typography works in various galleries University lecturer in the field of graphic design Author of the book “Graphic Art, Graphic Design” Researcher in the field of digital calligraphy scripting

A graphic and type designer. He founded TSfonts Type Studio in 2020, based in Istanbul, Turkey. Under his vision, they have built a rich library of distinctive fonts that they own and license to designers, advertisers, and brands worldwide. Continuously expanding, he is dedicated to developing fresh fonts that reflect current trends while staying true to tradition.

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.

Canada Type is an independent digital lettering and font development studio based in Toronto. We were founded in 2004 by a couple of experienced designers who were not pleased with the quality and licensing terms of fonts around the turn of the century. Since then we have greatly expanded, built a versatile and popular retail catalogue, and helped many designers bring international attention to their talents in the constantly changing and increasingly competitive world of type design.

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.

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

Boharat is a type foundry that aims to introduce new flavors to the Arabic design scene. Boharat Cairo offers remarkable retail fonts, and accepts custom and bespoke fonts and typography related projects.