Sahar Afshar

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Sahar Afshar Sahar Afshar is a type designer, printing historian and researcher from Iran. She studied at the University of Tehran and the University of Reading (where she obtained an MA in Typography & Graphic Communication). After graduating, she has been working on the design of Arabic typefaces and researching the printing of Arabic and Indic scripts. She is currently based in London, and obtained a PhD from Birmingham City University, where she researched Punjabi printing history and culture in post-war Britain. In 2017, she published Athelas Arabic at TypeTogether, to accompany Scaglione and Burian's Athelas (2008). In 2022, she designed Portada Arabic for TypeTogether. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal.	EXTERNAL LINKS Sahar Afshar [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Iran ⦿ Typefaces and type design for Arabic ⦿ Gurmukhi/Punjabi fonts ⦿ Indic language fonts ⦿