The Arabic Type Design Archive

An independent digital type foundry dedicated to crafting contemporary Arabic display typefaces. started in 2017 as an experimental daily poster project aimed at exploring the creative potential of graphic design and typography.

Eduardo Tunni was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1963. He studied graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and later specialized in typographic design. He co-founded the type foundry "Tipo" and some of his published there fonts were exhibited, selected and awarded around the world. For 10 years he was a teacher of the Master Career of Type Design at the UBA where he continues as external consultant. He made multilingual custom fonts for magazines, newspapers, universities, companies and countries with the collaboration of other colleagues. He has developed design methods that have been incorporated into the main typography design software that collaborates with typographic production.

He holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Graphic Design from the University of Tehran. He completed type design courses under the supervision of Sedaghat Jabari and Masoud Sepehr at the university, while also attending independent workshops at Vije School with Damoon KhanjanZadeh. He has collaborated closely with various studios, including Kargah Studio, Sepehr Studio, Daftar Studio, and Markazi Studio, in type design and font development. His released typeface families include the exclusive typeface family for Saman Bank, the Royasamin font family, and the Roudaki font family for the Roudaki Foundation.

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

He is an award-winning typeface designer whose work spans multiple scripts and design cultures. His path to type was anything but linear – having gone from juggling and organising concerts to working in visual communication, graphic design, illustration, web design, packaging, and animation. He finally chose to pursue his passion with typography. Kostas graduated the MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading with distinction and held a senior designer role at URW Typefoundry, before becoming one part of Foundry 5 in 2021. He enjoys innovative explorations in Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Arabic type design, and spends his time designing original typefaces, expanding script support of existing ones, and offering consultation for designers and type foundries such as Google Fonts, TypeTogether, and NaN. He has received acclaimed awards and recognitions for his work by the Type Directors Club, Granshan, EdAwards, EVGE, and Communication Arts, and he has served as a juror for both TDC and Granshan competitions. Among his most notable works is Averta, named one of the top 100 most-used web fonts. He co-designed Peridot Latin and Peridot PE, expansive families that support Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts with over 120 styles, as well as other popular fonts such as Commissioner, Oi, Zona Pro, and Evert.

Our names are Sahar Afshar and José Solé, and we are partners in life and in Dogray, a type foundry based in the south of London. We met in 2017 in a type conference⁠—⁠here’s to our dearly departed TypoLabs Berlin⁠🍻⁠—⁠and hit it off (we actually met in 2015 at our friend Kalapi’s wedding in India, but that’s a story for another time). After working in a large type design studio for some years, we decided to leave the safety of our full time jobs and get back to what brought us to making fonts in the first place; the joy of creative decision making in the design of typefaces, and reconnecting with the wider design community. We started Dogray Type Foundry to do just that; to enjoy designing fonts we feel will be useful, and bring fun back into our careers. Very importantly, we wanted to embrace collaboration over competition; we center co‑creating at the heart of our foundry⁠—⁠not just in combining our individual strengths and skills, but also by using each of our library fonts as an opportunity to collaborate with a different creative from the wider fields of Arts and Humanities. We do this because of our fundamental belief; that best work happens when unique and diverse perspectives collide.

An independent type foundry based in Barcelona dedicated to the design and distribution of digital fonts. Founder and principal designer Andreu Balius has experienced type design since the late 1980’s.

A leading and established boutique type foundry known for creating fonts that are distinctively human and full of character.

Al Mohtaraf is a multi-disciplinary design house that offers a diverse and impressive experience in editorial design, branding and corporate identities, Arabic type design, print publications and space design from offices in Jeddah, Riyadh, Khobar and Beirut. We are one of the few specialized graphic design houses in the region. From a culture so rich in graphic tradition, Al Mohtaraf’s vision is to carry the seeds of tradition into the contemporary cultural scene of the Arab world.

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.