The Arabic Type Design Archive

type designer and founder of the Fontamin website.

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

He is a Syrian-born type designer whose work bridges Arabic and Latin typography with a focus on legibility and wayfinding. He holds both an MA and a PhD in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, where his doctoral research examined the diversity of Arabic type styles and their influence on Arab readership. Before co-founding Foundry 5 in 2021, he expanded his MA graduation project Jali into a multilingual superfamily for Arabic, Latin, and Greek. His widely recognised typefaces include Jali, a humanist sans serif designed for multilingual signage, which received the Type Directors Club Certificate of Typographic Excellence and Granhan’s First Prize in the Arabic and Latin category (2019). At Foundry 5, he continues to develop typefaces for global contexts, uniting scripts across cultural and functional boundaries to set new standards for clarity and inclusivity in multilingual design. Mohamad’s work reflects a commitment to accessibility and cross-cultural communication, combining academic research with design practice. He has taught as Lecturer in Graphic Design at the University of Reading and as Associate Professor at the German University in Cairo, where he continues to contribute to design education alongside his professional and research practice.

Ricard Garcia is a type designer based in Barcelona. In 2015 he received his BA in Graphic Design from the University of Barcelona. Before moving to The Hague to study at Type and Media, he worked at Typerepublic as a type designer. His work is now a balance of type design, lettering & code.

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.

Babelfont is an independent type foundry in Paris and Marrakech. We design multiscript typefaces — Arabic, Latin, Tifinagh, and Korean. Our goal is simple: connect cultures through letterforms.
 The language of the future is multiscript.

F37® Foundry is an award-winning type foundry that creates fonts and logotypes to help businesses stand apart. As well as understanding the minutiae of letterform aesthetics, we create beautifully crafted type families that align perfectly with the identities and sensibilities of the companies we work with.

Arillatype.Studio® is a type design studio exploring the intersection of creativity, craft and technology. We design contemporary retail typefaces and charismatic custom fonts.

The Northern Block is an independent type foundry internationally recognised for producing modernist fonts for brands, creatives and makers.

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.