3killgor3

FontStructor (perhaps Dana Ramond Kaikane Stoneman of Hockey Shark Productions) who made these fonts in 2011: Burlesque (Art deco), Tebacabi (squarish), Stretched Out, Winter Wind, Theory (texture face), Theory Improved, Elite (gridded), Continuum, Quilted Silk (squarish textured face), What (texture pixel face), Freaky (tall condensed square face), Jordan, Slob, Ertite (pixelish), Dictator (pixel face), Duh Pixels (pixel face), Ribbon, Twee, Best Love Song, Bolderic, Sliders, Slapshot, Sloppy Sketcher, Serifereal Vision, Pieramids. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abdulamir L. Mryhij

alAlmaiha Software, Freezone, Naser City, Cairo, Egypt. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahmad Shawki

Egyptian designer of the avant-garde Arabic font Slavian (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahmed Youness

Egyptian graphic designer. Creator of a typographic donkey (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

American Philological Association
[Donald Mastronarde]

Association which published a free Greek Opentype font, KadmosU (2005). New Athena Unicode (2004-2010) is also free: New Athena Unicode is a freeware multilingual font distributed by the American Philological Association. It follows the latest version (5.1) of the Unicode standard and includes characters for English and Western European languages, polytonic Greek, Coptic, Old Italic, and Demotic Egyptian transliteration (and Arabic transliteration), as well as metrical symbols and other characters used by classical scholars. New Athena Unicode is a "smart font" that includes OpenType ligatures allowing the display of composed characters not recognized by Unicode but needed by scholars. I am not sure that I am right, but the Greekkeys pafge makes me believe that Donald Mastronarde (a Professor a UC Berkeley) of the American Philological Association is responsible for the creation and upkeep of New Athena Unicode. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ancient Arts of Egypt

Small Egyptian theme archive, with Cartouche, Deities, Archaeological-Demo, Egypt0, LMSEgyptianBookends, Lotusflower, RK-Meroitic-(Hieroglyphics), RK-Meroitic-(Hieroglyphics), Meroitic---Hieroglyphics, Nahkt, Papyrus-Regular, RK-Sanskrit, ScarabBorder, Scarab, TempusSansITC. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arabian Company for Advanced Computer Systems
[Mohammad Esmat Abdullhalem]

Egyptian designer in 1992-1994 of these Arabic fonts: ACS-Akeek-Bold, ACS-Akeek-Extra-Bold, ACS-Akeek, ACS-Almass-Bold, ACS-Almass-Extra-Bold, ACS-Almass, ACS-Bassmalah, ACS-Fayrouz-Bold, ACS-Fayrouz-Extra-Bold, ACS-Fayrouz, ACS-Hieroglyphic, ACS-Islamy, ACS-Koraan, ACS-Morgan-Bold, ACS-Morgan-Extra-Bold, ACS-Morgan, ACS-Symbols, ACS-Topazz-Bold, ACS-Topazz-Extra-Bold, ACS-Topazz, ACS-Yaqout-Bold, ACS-Yaqout-Extra-Bold, ACS-Yaqout, ACS-Zomorrod-Bold, ACS-Zomorrod-Extra-Bold, ACS-Zomorrod. They can be downloaded here, here and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christine Adel

Egyptian designer of Coxa Headline (2011), a geometric face in which the Arabic and Latin parts were created in harmony. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DecoType
[Thomas Milo]

Thomas Milo founded DecoType in Amsterdam in 1985, together with Peter Somers and Mirjam Somers. They introduced the notion of dynamic fonts, and developed Ruqaa (1987), licensed by Microsoft. They also developed the DecoTypeSetter, which was included in Adobe PageMaker MiddleEast. Deco Type is perhaps best known for its extensive DTP Naskh family, which has hundreds of variations of all letterforms, and permitted people to typeset calligraphic Arabic, as it is in a style emulating the hand of the Ottoman calligrapher Mustafa Izzet Efendi. Part of that package is the DecoType Authentic Naskh typeface. DecoType donated a custom version of Naskh to the Unicode Consortium for printing the Arabic parts of their manuals. Other fonts include DTP Nastaaliq. Thomas Milo is also a specialist of Turkic and Slavic linguistics. His company's beautiful fonts sell for 125 USD: P.O. Box 55518, 1007 NA Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I heard Thomas talk about Arabic fonts at the 1998 RIDT in Saint-Malo and again at ATypI in Copenhagen in 2001: both were masterful performances, entertaining and insightful from start to finish. From Milo's site: "DecoType contributes fonts and Arabic Calligraphy applications to Microsoft Office Arabic Edition; to Adobe PageMaker Middle East DecoType provides a special interface for Calligraphic typesetting; to the MacOS 9 it contributes Arabic fonts." Bio at ATypI. MyFonts page. Speaker at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. In 2009, Thomas Milo received the second Dr. Peter Karow Award for Font Technology&Digital Typography has been awarded to Thomas Milo for the development of the ACE layout engine (the heart of the Tasmeem plugin for InDesign ME) for Arabic text setting. The citation reads: Thomas Milo and his company DecoType developed with ACE, which is an acronym for 'Arabic Calligraphic Engine', new advanced technology for Arabic text setting, which needs a far more sophisticated approach than for instance the Latin script, based on a thorough analysis of the Arabic script. Not only served Milo's typographic research as the fundament for the ACE technology, clearly it also formed a basis for the development of the OpenType format, although this is a less known and acknowledged fact. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Future Soft Egypt
[Abdulsamiea Rajab Salem]

Egyptian type designer Abdulsamiea Rajab Salem (b. 1968) published many typefaces from 1998-2000 under the name Future Soft. These include FS_Africa, FS_Alex, FS_Bold, FS_Cairo, FS_Diwany, FS_Egypt, FS_Free, FS_Future, FS_Graphic, FS_India, FS_Japan, FS_Jet, FS_Lotas, FS_Metal, FS_Modern1, FS_Modern2, FS_Nice, FS_Old, FS_Pincel, FS_Point, FS_Rajab, FS_Rope, FS_Salem, and FS_Strip. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hadeer Omar

Hadeer Omar has a BFA in Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth University. Behance link. She created the squarish Arabic typeface Lefeen (2010). It is unclear if this is the same as the design agency Elfekra in Alexandria, Egypt---they also show a squarish typeface called Lefeen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ibrahim Hamdi

Egyptian type designer in Alexandria who made the commercial face Arabica (2011) and Cocon Next (2001, Arabic and Latin). His full name is Ibrahim Hamdi Mohamed Ali, and his company is called Team Solutions.

In 2012, he designed the Solutions Next Arabic type family.

Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

IFAO

At the IFAO (Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale in Cairo, Egypt), one can find the free fonts IFAO Grec (2002) and IFAO N Copte (2008, by Jonathan Perez). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Islam Zayed

Cairo-based designer and typographer. He created a nice typographic ampersand in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karim Hegazi

Cairo-based typographer who created Beeaty (2011; experimental Arabic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Khaled Hosny
[Khaled Hosny]

Khaled Hosny is a physician in Egypt. He loves Arabic and its type, and is interested in every aspect of letter forms and typography. A hobbyist translator, programmer and font developer, he supports software freedom and is actively participating in the free software community. Sourcefirge link.

Designer of Punk Nova (2010), a free OpenType implementation of Don Knuth's Punk font, based on modified Metapost sources by Taco Hoekwater and Hans Hagan, dating from 2008. Hosny writes: Punk is a dynamic font, every time a glyph is requested Matafont draws a unique instance of it. On the other hand, OpenType is static, glyph outlines are drawn once and stored in the font and the renderer can not alter those outlines. To emulate the dynamic nature of Punk, we generate several alternate shapes of each glyph and store them in the font. Alternate shapes are mapped to the base character using OpenType [Randomize] feature (rand), which tells the renderer to select glyphs randomly from the list of alternate shapes. Pick up the free Punk Nova from CTAN.

XITS (2011) is a Times-like typeface for mathematical and scientific publishing, based on STIX fonts. The main mission of XITS is to provide a version of STIX fonts enriched with the OpenType MATH extension, making it suitable for high quality mathematic typesetting with OpenType MATH capable layout systems, like MS Office 2007 and the new TeX engines XeTeX and LuaTeX. This free OFL package was developed by Khaled Hosny. Inside the fonts, we read Copyright (c) 2001-2010 by the STI Pub Companies, consisting of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the American Mathematical Society, the American Physical Society, Elsevier, Inc., and The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. Portions copyright (c) 1998-2003 by MicroPress, Inc. Portions copyright (c) 1990 by Elsevier, Inc.

Euler OTF (2010) are OpenType Math fonts based on Hermann Zapf's Euler and implemented by Taco Hoekwater, Hans Hagen, and Khaled Hosny. Named Neo-Euler (2009-2010), it covers Latin, Greek and has a full blackletter set of glyphs. Copyright Hosny and the American Mathematical Society.

In 2010-2011, Hosny developed the free Amiri font (OFL; dedicated web page): Amiri font is an open font revival of the Arabic Naskh typeface designed and first used by Bulaq Press in Cairo in the early part of the twentieth century. Amiri's uniqueness comes from its superb balance between the beauty of Naskh calligraphy and the requirements of elegant typography. Amiri is most suitable for running text and book printing. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laila Goubran

Egyptian creator of a geometrically constructed Arabic font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mahmoud Hamdy

Mahmoud Hamdy joined Dalton Maag in the summer of 2009. He works there on Arabic fonts for both their Exclusives library and custom clients. Mahmoud is based in Cairo, Egypt, where he previously ran the successful graphic design firm FC studio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mohamed Eissa

Cairo, Egypt-based designer of the experimental Arabic font Tasleem (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mohamed Gaber

Cairo-based visual artist who created the Arabic script typeface Fold Type (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mohamed Nabil

Egyptian graphic and type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mostafa El Abasiry

Alexandria, Egypt-based creator of the fat octagonal typeface PolyFont (2012), Friendo (2012), Retro Town (2012, free demo), and the pixel face Pixelogist (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

N. Narudi

Egyptian designer of Arabic faces associated with Linotype&Machinery in the late 1950s. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nardine Shenouda

Egyptian font designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Osman Assem

Cairo, Egypt-based designer of Scribble Font (2011, a sketch face for Latin). Home page. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ramy Elbasty

Alexandria, Egypt-based creator of the organic sans face Typofluffy (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sherif Ghoname

Digital artist from Cairo who made Psycho Typo (2011), a calligraphic Arabic lettering piece. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tasmeem
[Thomas Milo]

Tasmeem is an entire Arabic typesetting package integrated within Adobe's InDesign. This Adobe product returns to the beautiful Arabic typography, and is a big step forward, in my view. It includes two new font sets, Emiri and Naskh. Emiri is a revival of the typeface of the Emeeriyyah printing house in Cairo. Adobe's plug: With this typeface it is possible to create Unicode-based searchable Koran text with the familiar appearance of todays printed editions. Tasmeems shaping and spacing controls makes Emiri particularly effective for literary and creative productions. Please note that this font can only be used in Tasmeem. The last sentence is ominous and perhaps a first step towards a new trend---fonts that can only be used in one product. They won't sell you a Mercedes radio if you won't buy a Mercedes. The Nasqh font, in contrast, can be had for 200 dollars. Thomas Milo of DecoType ACE explains: Tasmeem is not from Adobe as such, but Adobe InDesign ME with a DecoType ACE-based user interface plugin, made by WinSoft. Naskh is made by me and Mirjam Somers, my partner. Emiri is made by Mirjam Somers and me.<.i> New Tasmeem developments, all be DecoType ACE: Nassim Alef by Titus Nemeth, Qarandash Beh by Mirjam Somers, Mehdi by Saad Abulhab, Ruqah. Blogroll on Tasmeem. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Typographies.fr
[Jonathan Perez]

French foundry, est. 2008, by Jonathan Perez and Laurent Bourcellier. Graduates from the Ecole Estienne in Paris, they have made the following fonts:

• Colvert (2012): A family comprosed of four families, Colvert Arabic (by Kristyan Sarkis), Colvert Cyrillic (by Natalia Chuvatin), Colvert Greek (by Irene Vlachou) and Colvert Latin (by Jonathan Perez).
• The free font Ifao N Copte, a Unicode-compatible font with 809 glyphs for Coptic. By Perez.
• Unicopte (by Bourcellier) and Copte Scripte (2008, by Bourcellier and Perez; it won an award at TDC2 2009). Discussion.
• A hieroglyphic font. By Perez.
• Joos (2009) took its inspiration from an italic, ca. 1530, by Joos Lambrecht, from Gent, Belgium, who was one of the great printers and punchcutters of the 16th century.
• Extensions of Syntax and ITC Slimbach for Vietnamese (with the help of Pauline Nuñez, Valentine Proust and Mathieu Réguer) for the National Museum of Asian Arts Guimet.