The Arabic Type Design Archive

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

Born in 1982, Rasoul Kamali is a graphic designer, instructor, and art researcher. He holds a Master's degree in Visual Communication and a PhD in Philosophy of Art. He is also a faculty member at the University of Art in Isfahan.

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 lettering, type and graphic designer. Having grown up between Dubai and Beirut, and being raised in an Armenian family, Khajag has an affinity for different languages and writing systems, which he has applied to the development of typefaces in many scripts, including Arabic, Armenian, and Latin. He designed Arek, a typeface that was awarded the Grand Prize at Granshan 2010 Eastern Type Design Competition, and was among the winners of Letter.2, the second international type design competition organized by the Association Typographique Internationale. He currently operates under the name debakir, Armenian for printed type, and teaches design courses at the American University of Beirut.

Branding & Type Designer based in Cairo. I help Arabic brands thrive by embracing their identity to better connect with their audience. My passion for logo design and Arabic calligraphy began in August 2013. After graduating from the Faculty of Science, Biochemistry Department at ASU in 2016, I honed valuable skills like research, critical thinking, and problem-solving, which have greatly supported my career. With over a decade of experience, I offer unique, impactful, and aesthetic branding solutions that elevate Arabic culture. And ultimately, I hope to live in a world where we truly embrace who we are.

TSfonts type studio was founded by Tarek Alsawwa in 2019 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey. We have developed a strong library of beautiful fonts, which we own and license to designers, advertisers, and brands. We're constantly crafting and adding new fonts to keep our body of work fresh and relevant.

Our names are Sahar Afshar and José Solé, and we are partners in life and in Dogray, a type foundry based in the south of London. We met in 2017 in a type conference⁠—⁠here’s to our dearly departed TypoLabs Berlin⁠🍻⁠—⁠and hit it off (we actually met in 2015 at our friend Kalapi’s wedding in India, but that’s a story for another time). After working in a large type design studio for some years, we decided to leave the safety of our full time jobs and get back to what brought us to making fonts in the first place; the joy of creative decision making in the design of typefaces, and reconnecting with the wider design community. We started Dogray Type Foundry to do just that; to enjoy designing fonts we feel will be useful, and bring fun back into our careers. Very importantly, we wanted to embrace collaboration over competition; we center co‑creating at the heart of our foundry⁠—⁠not just in combining our individual strengths and skills, but also by using each of our library fonts as an opportunity to collaborate with a different creative from the wider fields of Arts and Humanities. We do this because of our fundamental belief; that best work happens when unique and diverse perspectives collide.

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.

Abjad aspires to develop and transfer the Arabic typography, to the same level, that was reached by Arab and Muslim calligraphers, who came from very diverse cities and civilizations, extending from Samarkand and China in the east, to Andalusia in the west. This diversity has produced countless forms and schools of Arabic calligraphy.

A leading and established boutique type foundry known for creating fonts that are distinctively human and full of character.