Mohamed Gaber

Mohamed Gaber (Cairo, 1986) is a type designer and artist based in Cairo. His primary interest lies in the haptic nature of type production and its technological, philosophical, and historical aspects. He holds a Master's in design from Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam). He founded Kief Type Foundry, a type foundry specializing in open-source Arabic fonts, TypePlatform, a research space for under-represented writing systems focusing on Arabic script, and co-founded TypeLab at Sandberg Instituut. He taught as a guest tutor at AUC (Egypt), and Linnaeus University (Sweden). In addition, he often gives workshops and talks around the world. His type design work is featured on Google fonts.