The Arabic Type Design Archive

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.

Parnian Kashfi, a graduate of graphic design, designed the Parnian font as a student project at the Moslem Ibrahim Typography Workshop.

Hojat Nourolahi is a graduate of the University of Art, specializing in type design and font development. He is actively involved in the design and production of both Perso/Arabic and Latin typefaces

Born in 1947, Kameel Hawa is a Lebanese artist, painter, graphic designer, and writer. A graduate of the American University of Beirut and with no formal art education, Hawa began to paint intuitively in the 1970s. He was mostly inspired by daily life objects and domestic scenes, with seated women, friends, and acquaintances, flowers in vases, and birds on wires being his favorite subjects. In the preceding years, the focus of his daily work drove him away from painting as a central activity, though it remains, in his own words, ‘the paramount means of his artistic expression.’ His art, design, and writing have many common traits, the most evident of which is the ease of expression without compromising the profoundness of feeling and overwhelming passion.

Amirarsalan Ahmadi is an Aerospace Engineering student at Sharif University of Technology. For the past few years, he has been studying and working in graphic design, with a particular focus on logo design. He has also gained experience in creating textual and visual content for both official and unofficial media platforms.

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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.

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