typography


Typography is the art and technique of arranging type.

Books 2

The first TPTQ Arabic printed type specimen presents the collection of current and upcoming Arabic typefaces and their Latin counterparts.
This book is investigating new approaches for Arab / Latin 3-dimensional lettering in public space.

Articles 2

ATDB or Arabic Type Design - Beirut is the first intensive program entirely dedicated to Arabic type design. Its first rendition took place between July 11th and August 19th 2016. Below is an account of why the program came about and how it happened.
Essays · 25 October 2016 · English
Greta Arabic is the counterpart of Greta Sans type system. This text is a reflection on the journey of creating and developing the first Arabic type system of this scale .
Typeface stories · · English

Blogs 7

The rounded sibling of Kanun and Arabic counterpart of Typotheque's October.
22 May 2017
Kanun is an Arabic signage type family carefully crafted to also handle long texts.
7 April 2017
Fedra Arabic Display is a collection of extreme light and dark fonts for large sizes. All styles have been optimised for compact settings.
22 June 2016

Authors 3

Kristyan Sarkis is a type designer and lettering artist, born in Beirut and based in Amsterdam. He holds a Master in Type & Media from the Roy...
Peter Biľak works in the field of editorial, graphic, and type design. In 1999 he started Typotheque type foundry, in 2000, together with Stuart Baile...
Bahman Eslami is a designer specialized in Arabic type design, animation and creative coding. Reputedly a TypeMedia graduate who works and lives in Th...

Other pages 1

TPTQ Arabic creates custom fonts and typefaces for corporate branding and identity projects. We offer tailor-made multilingual type solutions for a variety of languages and applications.