The Arabic Type Design Archive

Majid Halakooi is a graphic designer and instructor. For couple of years, he has been pursuing design in the field of Persian typography.

A graphic designer, type designer, and versatile creative professional with over 17 years of comprehensive experience across diverse creative disciplines. He is holding a Master's in Design from Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam.

A Riyadh-based graphic and type designer who originally studied computer engineering and later turned his passion toward typography and branding.

An award-winning Syrian type designer. He is the principal and founder of Sakkal Design, based in the US. He started professionally as an architect and graphic designer but has been a full-time designer of Arabic fonts since 2002. He holds a PhD from the University of Washington in the History of Islamic Art. He collaborates with many type foundries and corporations, and his awards include 6 from TDC and Granshan competitions.

A one-man type design studio specialized in high quality Arabic and Latin type design, logotypes, and type production.

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.

The Northern Block is an independent type foundry internationally recognised for producing modernist fonts for brands, creatives and makers.

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.

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.

TNTypography in Paris, and specializes in Arabic typeface design, typography and custom type. A 2006 graduate in the Master of Arts Typeface Design programme at the Department of Typography and Visual Communication, University of Reading, he also studied Arabic script at the École Supérier d'Art et de Design d'Amiens, France. Titus holds a PhD in Typography & Graphic Communication from the University of Reading, UK.