The Arabic Type Design Archive

An award-winning Lebanese type designer. Nadine has an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK; a PhD in legibility research from Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a Master of Studies in International Relations from Cambridge University.

An experienced graphic design professional specializing in Persian typography since 2009. Early in his career, he was dedicated to teaching typography design at the university level. Subsequently, he shifted his focus to establishing the FontIran website, where his efforts were redirected to the publication and marketing of Perso-Arabic typefaces. Between 2014 and 2017, Ebrahimi's typefaces underwent a significant transformation, playing a pivotal role in shaping the typographic landscape for Persian web and software design. The launch of FontIran Foundry marked a successful advocacy for voluntary copyright adherence in the realm of Perso-Arabic typefaces, addressing challenges related to sales and income for type designers. . Ebrahimi's impactful contributions have left a lasting impression on the field, influencing the culture of Perso arabic typography and providing solutions to challenges faced by fellow type designers.

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.

type designer and founder of the Fontamin website.

Graphic Designer and Typographer Exhibitor of numerous calligraphy and typography works in various galleries University lecturer in the field of graphic design Author of the book “Graphic Art, Graphic Design” Researcher in the field of digital calligraphy scripting

Hi, I’m Vitória and this is my playground! Just in case you were wondering, “Seven” is my last name backwards. Since I believe that designing typefaces is the ultimate level of dedication to letterforms I created the SevenType Studio – an independent type foundry.

Founded by Neil Summerour in 2000. A trained designer, lettering artist, and calligrapher, Summerour established Positype to accentuate the craft behind producing typefaces. The subtleties of mass, perfect imperfections, warmth, and uniqueness are foundational tenets to developing the foundry’s commercial offerings with the ultimate goal of producing useful and reliable fonts.

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.

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

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.