The Arabic Type Design Archive

Younes Dehghani is a professional graphic designer and the advertising manager of Studio Gooya. He began his professional career in graphic design in 2010. Over the years, his main focus has been on typography, which led him to design posters, logotypes, and book covers with a typographic approach. After founding Studio Goya in 2016, he shifted his focus more towards developing Persian fonts and typography.

He is a Syrian-born type designer whose work bridges Arabic and Latin typography with a focus on legibility and wayfinding. He holds both an MA and a PhD in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, where his doctoral research examined the diversity of Arabic type styles and their influence on Arab readership. Before co-founding Foundry 5 in 2021, he expanded his MA graduation project Jali into a multilingual superfamily for Arabic, Latin, and Greek. His widely recognised typefaces include Jali, a humanist sans serif designed for multilingual signage, which received the Type Directors Club Certificate of Typographic Excellence and Granhan’s First Prize in the Arabic and Latin category (2019). At Foundry 5, he continues to develop typefaces for global contexts, uniting scripts across cultural and functional boundaries to set new standards for clarity and inclusivity in multilingual design. Mohamad’s work reflects a commitment to accessibility and cross-cultural communication, combining academic research with design practice. He has taught as Lecturer in Graphic Design at the University of Reading and as Associate Professor at the German University in Cairo, where he continues to contribute to design education alongside his professional and research practice.

Passionate about calligraphy and environmental design from early childhood, Ali Pezeshk learned every style of Persian and Arabic writing in early ages from local sign-makers and by looking at inscriptions in historical buildings of Iran. He studied Computer engineering and worked as Pre-press specialist at Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon) for 2 years, which gave him a good sense of font usage and typography in publishing. Then he experimented different fields of design and made his first font based on vintage Iranian film posters in 2016. After changing his filed of focus for about a decade, researching handmade papers and related artworks, he again started designing fonts based on his ideas evolved in the recent years about language and type.

Amir is Master in business management. He has been interested in typography since 2019 and is active in the field of lettering, logotype design and font design.

Born in 1962, I am a type designer based in Barcelona and Son (Alt Àneu). I design retail and custom typefaces at typerepublic and I have been awarded with several Excellence in Type Design for my type design work. I am a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) and ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale). I hold a PhD in Design from the University of Southampton (UK) and teach typography and type design at EINA, University School of Design and Art, in Barcelona. Apart from these type affairs, I also love hiking and riding on my mountain bike.

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.

Hi, I’m Vitória and this is my playground! Just in case you were wondering, “Seven” is my last name backwards. Since I believe that designing typefaces is the ultimate level of dedication to letterforms I created the SevenType Studio – an independent type foundry.

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.

SIL International works with local communities to develop language solutions that expand possibilities for a better life. A small team specializes in developing fonts for world scripts including Arabic, Burmese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Greek, Gunjala Gondi, Hebrew, Latin, Lepcha, Miao, New Tai Lue, Tai Viet, Tifinagh, and Yi.

Parachute® is a European type foundry and design agency founded in 2001, specializing in bespoke type design, corporate typefaces, and lettering for global brands.