The Arabic Type Design Archive

A graphic designer and type designer. Born in 2006, he has been professionally engaged in Persian type design since 2022. In his early years, his focus was on graphic design, but gradually, with a deeper involvement in typeface design, he shaped his professional path. He is the designer of the free fonts Rooyin, Sorena, and Estedad Mad, which reflect his approach to simplicity, readability, and the contemporary needs of Persian typography.

Ahmed Abo Elhassan, a brand designer and lettering artist with 10 years of experience in brand identity, logotype, and lettering. Specializing in Arabic visual branding and the use of Arabic calligraphy in creative and contemporary styles. Passionate about creating visually-compelling designs that effectively communicate brand messages and values.

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.

A graphic designer and typographer since 2008. Naser specializes in executing projects related to typography and logo design. .

Typographer, Logotype & Typeface Design Instructor • Design Irancell, Tehran Book Garden, Leila, Ravi, Abar & Paykan • Design MyBaby, Alibaba, Ayandeh Bank, Fanoos (Hamkaran System), Inverse School, Bonyade Koodak & InshapeBody typefaces in collaboration with Mahdi Ershadi • Design MIKA, Vazeh quranic typefaces, Dabestan & Ray typefaces in collaboration with Omid Emamian • Design Doran typeface in collaboration with Fereshteh Iranshahi • Design Yekan Bakh typeface (Redesigning Yekan Typeface) in collaboration with Mahan Jafarzadeh • Design Novin Web typeface (Redesigning Novin Typeface designed by Hirbod Lotfian) • Design Nian typeface in collaboration with Afsaneh Salek Notable Achievements • 3rd Place and Honorable Diploma - GRANSHAN Type Design Competition. • Grand Prize - Silk Road Biennial for Typeface Design. • TDC Typographic Excellence (2018) - Vazeh UI Quranic Typeface. • TDC Typographic Excellence (2018) - Ray Typeface. • TDC Typographic Excellence (2019) - Vazeh Classic Quranic Typeface.

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.

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

Established in 2001 in the heart of Florence by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro and Debora Manetti. Powered by a team of Branding and Design veterans, the Italian foundry stands out for a prolific portfolio of contemporary type-families and revival fonts.

Atlas Fonts publishes original typefaces for today’s global reading experiences. Dedicated to professional use in editorial, brand, and interface design, Atlas’ typefaces offer multilingual, multi-platform solutions. Carefully crafted details and thoughtful features enable designers to achieve refined typography and innovative visual identities. Our typographic systems are built to perform across all environments – from large-scale to micro text, from one script to another. Each growing collection of high-quality font families is meticulously developed and extensively expanded. What began nearly twenty years ago as an academic playground for language, reading behavior, and typographic design has evolved into a studio dedicated to developing comprehensive typographic systems. We aim to solve the complex challenges of multi-platform typography in a globalised world for each individual native reader. Founded in 2012 by Christoph Dunst, Atlas Fonts is based in Berlin, Germany.

Foundry5 is a type foundry dedicated to the design and production of fonts for diverse world scripts. Established by Kostas Bartsokas, Mohamad Dakak, Jason Harcombe, and Pria Ravichandran, the foundry was born out of a shared passion for typography and a deep respect for the cultural significance of each writing system.