The Arabic Type Design Archive

A graphic graduate, has been working on type design since 2016 under the supervision of Professor Damon Khanjanzadeh. He started his professional career by working in advertising agencies and design studios since 2006. He has also participated in several foreign and domestic poster design festivals. He is currently working as an art director.

"Graphic designer, UI/UX designer, and active in the startup ecosystem."

I am a graphic designer and visual artist from Lebanon, currently based in Paris. My design journey began at LAU (Lebanese American University) in Beirut and continued with studies in Animation upon relocating to France. Since 2005, I have remained dedicated to graphic design, working from my Studio Nem., which I founded in 2019 in Paris.

Mike Abbink est le directeur exécutif de la création dans l’équipe Brand Experience and Design au sein d’IBM. Il a démarré sa carrière en 1996 en tant que designer chez MetaDesign à San Francisco. Il est ensuite devenu directeur de la création pour le Museum of Modern Art, pour Wolff Olins, pour Saffron Consultants et pour Method (dont il est également le cofondateur). Il a par la suite occupé le poste de directeur du design chez Apple Computer. En parallèle de sa carrière de graphiste, Mike Abbink a également créé des polices au caractère énergique pour lesquelles il a reçu plusieurs récompenses, telles que FF Kievit, FF Milo, GE Inspira, Brando Serif et Sans et, plus récemment, IBM Plex®. Enfin, Mike Abbink continue de concevoir et de collaborer à la création de polices avec Bold Monday.

Typeface & Logotype designer Cooperation in the design of Latin characters and the expansion of the Yekan Bakh font family with Reza Bakhtiarifard

Lettersoup is an independent type foundry based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded by Botio Nikoltchev in 2014. The main focus of lettersoup is cooking fonts with Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic taste.

NamelaType is a type foundry based in Magelang, Indonesia operated by Nur Syamsi and Bustanul Arifin. Passionate about harmonizing Latin and Arabic fonts, we aim to create innovative solutions that align their weight, shape, and style—despite their opposite flows—while exceeding our own and our readers’ expectations.

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

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.

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