The Arabic Type Design Archive

I have a degree in Graphic Design and have been a member of the Iranian Graphic Designers Society (since 1987). I am involved in typeface design, font development, and logotype design. I have publicly released the Potk and Borna fonts, and I designed the Ayandeh, Ali Baba, Bonyad Koodak, Fanoos, and Inverse fonts in collaboration with Reza Bakhtiari Fard. The design and creation of the Kamand font in collaboration with Omid Emamian, as well as the development of the Valman font, are among my latest activities. I have held various workshops and courses in the field of typography, and I received the third Grand Prize at the 2021-2022 Granshan competition in Armenia for the Ali Baba font and a special award for the Potk font.

A type designer and lettering artist, born in Beirut and based in Amsterdam. He holds a Master in Type & Media from the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague). He has co-founded TPTQ Arabic type foundry, Arabic Type Design — Beirut , the first international educational program of its kind and the Arabic Lettering Workshops traveling series. He has taught at LAU Beirut, ESAV Marrakech and currently teaches at the Type & Media master program (Royal Academy of Art — The Hague). He reguarly gives workshops and talks around the world. His work received several awards including the New York Type Directors Club’s Certificate of Typographic Excellence, ATypI’s Letter.2, and the European Design Award.

Albert-Jan Pool is a Dutch designer based in Hamburg, Germany. After his studies at Gerrit Noordzij at the Royal Academy in The Hague (NL), he was a type director at Scangraphic and URW. In 1995 his career started as a graphic designer. At the suggestion of Erik Spiekermann, he designed FF OCR-F and FF DIN, one of the most successful fonts at FontShop. The interplay of graphic design, marketing and writing led to the publication of “types make brands powerful” together with Stefan Rögener (AdFinder) and Ursula Packhäuser. The English edition “Branding with Type” appeared at AdobePress. At the Hanseatic Academy for Marketing and Media in Hamburg, he taught typography in the Department of Communication Design for several years. One of his specialties is the development of corporate type, e.g. the Jet Set Sans, for the likewise memorably designed yellow-blue filling stations (Design: Syndicate Brand & Corporate Design, Hamburg). The C & A InfoType was developed together with Uwe Melichar from Factor Design for their customer C & A. The next project in this series was the DTL HEIN GAS, the exclusive handwriting for HEINGAS Hamburger Gaswerke (now E.ON Hanse). In 2009, he designed a corporate type for the new petrol stations at HEM. Fabian Eschkötter, who designed the design “Frappant” as part of his diploma thesis, supported him energetically.

Graphic Designer Member of Iranian Graphic Designers Society (IGDS) Recipient of the "Ebtekar" font design award at the inaugural Annual Book Design Art (2015)

Mohammadreza Chitsaz was born in 1363 and graduated from Tehran University of Art. Mohammadreza has been working as a graphic designer since 1981.

Alef Type Foundry is a small typeface design studio based in Paris, France. We are specialized in Arabic and matchmaking type design.

We specialise in letters in a broad sense, from type design to lettering, from Latin to Arabic, passing through other scripts such as Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew and Thai. We are surrounded by a network of bright collaborators and consultants in order to ensure the best possible quality. Our work has been recognised internationally in several type competitions such us TDC, ED-Awards, Morisawa, Granshan, Modern Cyrillic and Horouf.

About. Founded in 2014, Black[Foundry] grew from a shared passion for typography and attention to detail. Over the years, we’ve brought together a committed, international team in central Paris, collaborating with clients and partners worldwide.

NaN is an exploratory and service-driven type design practice balancing weirdness and wisdom. Together with our wonderful rag-tag team of collaborators, clients and crew, we explore the relationship type has with code and technology – delivering projects with purpose. You can expect to find us at the intersection of serious and slap-happy.

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.