The Arabic Type Design Archive

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

When setting up to establish 29Letters Type Foundry in 2013, Lebanese designer and educator Pascal Zoghbi aspired to explore the diversity and potential of the Arabic script. Zoghbi envisioned 29LT with a cross-cultural approach. Having evolved, studied and worked in a multicultural and largely bilingual environment, he embraced multilingualism. Coming into contact with more than one language in his everyday life, he has developed an exceptional ability to think global and to reflect the various technical, conventional, and cultural writing systems into his work. Accordingly, he has excelled in creating innovative, high-quality contemporary multiscript type families, each of which is unique in its design approach and responds to regional and international market needs. Staying true to his culture, he worked on turning traditional Arabic script into contemporary type. Always on the lookout for new ideas and harmony between scripts, he explores various tools and techniques and regularly partners with a team of professional designers specialized in specific scripts to create multiscript typography.

With over 15 years of experience in graphic design and typeface creation, he has designed several fonts, including Farhoud, Capsule, Ostad, and Melli.

Font designer and typography researcher since 2011 I created multiple font families, including Maneli, Hilda, and Mehrgan

Lebanese-Dutch Tarek Atrissi is one of the most recognized designers across the Arab world. He is the founder of Tarek Atrissi Design (www.atrissi.com), a design studio based in Barcelona and with offices in The Netherlands. The studio’s typographic and cross-cultural design approach has produced projects that have left a significant influence on the contemporary graphic design landscape in the Middle East, gaining Atrissi international recognition. Tarek Atrissi’s awards include the prestigious German Design Award, the D&AD Award, the Type Directors Club New York (TDC) Awards, the Adobe Design Achievement Awards, and the Brand Impact Awards, among others. He was listed in 2017 as one of the 100 most influential Lebanese professional figures around the globe. Early in his career, in 2005, he was selected for Print Magazine’s “Twenty under Thirty,” an international review of the most accomplished visual artists under the age of 30.

As an industry-leading typeface design studio, we’ve built a culture and reputation centred on creativity, innovation, and excellence. In this section, you’ll find a comprehensive overview of our vibrant studio, our deeply-rooted values, and our exceptionally talented and dedicated team.

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

A type foundry and design studio specifically focused on developing high quality Arabic typefaces. It is the result of a collaboration that started in 2011 between Kristyan Sarkis and Peter Bilak of Typotheque.

Monocotype is an independent type foundry based in Jakarta, Indonesia, specializing in retail and custom fonts that support multilingual typography. We design typefaces for Latin, Arabic, Korean, Thai, and other scripts, with a strong focus on clarity, cultural relevance, and cross-language usability.Our catalog includes everything from modern display fonts to technical single-line typefaces optimized for CNC, laser, and plotter use.Founded by Abdurrahman Hanif, Monocotype combines design precision with practical licensing, making our fonts suitable for brands, publishers, and creators worldwide.Discover more at monocotype.com or follow our updates on Instagram @monocotype.

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.