Mohamed Gaber
Type Designer at Kief Type Foundry
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMohamed Gaber is a Cairo-born type and graphic designer with over a decade of professional practice and 17 years of broader creative experience, currently running Kief Type Foundry from the United States. He designs high-quality Arabic and bilingual typefaces—commissioned by Google Fonts and used on products like the Pixel Watch—and blends traditional calligraphic craft with variable font technology and archival research. A Sandberg Instituut MFA graduate and occasional tutor/curator, Mohamed frequently runs workshops and speaks internationally, translating cultural nuance into typographic systems. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Venice Biennale and DDW and recognized by awards including Granshan’s Best Arabic Display Font, reflecting a rare combination of scholarly inquiry and practical type-making. Less obvious: his practice consistently mines everyday signage and handwriting from Cairo as a living archive, informing contemporary digital type solutions.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts & Design, Art & Design, Master of Fine Arts & Design, Art & Design at Sandberg Instituut
Arabic, English
Github Skills (22)
opentype10
fonts10
cjk10
typeface10
google-font10
latin10
phonetics10
font-family10
variable-fonts10
woff10
hebrew10
truetype10
arabic10
google-fonts10
ufo9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Gue3bara/Alexandria
Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:101 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
Gue3bara/Cairo
Jun 2015 - Nov 2022
Cairo is a contemporary Arabic and Latin typeface family. Mohamed Gaber extended the famous Latin typeface family Titillum Web to support the Arabic script, with a design that is based on the Kufi calligraphic style.
Contributions:3 releases, 269 commits, 33 PRs in 7 years 6 months
google-fontskufiextendedmohamedlatin
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