Daftar
Daftar Typeface is a revival of a forgotten type specimen from the past. After the advent of desktop publishing, some popular printing typefaces were converted into digital fonts. However, the typeface you are about to see was not among them, it has only recently been reconstructed and digitized by Daftar Studio based on old printed samples.
To evoke a vintage and nostalgic feel, the Daftar Typeface features slight erosion, irregular letter connections, and intentional inconsistencies in proportions. Although this typeface was once used for official announcements in its time, it is now considered a display font, best suited for graphic works with a nostalgic or retro atmosphere.
Font Licensing
For an additional user to use the font.To share the font with your designer or project partner. (details)
For one website or app and to share the font with 2 additional project partners. (details)
For small businesses to share the font with 5 additional employees and use it on one website.(details)
For unlimited use by companies in all their activities. A website builder, website templates and services that allow users to type with the font. (details)
Daftar
Freshly old letters!
Graphic designers, web and digital designers, publishers, the press, set designers, artists, and all those who work with Persian fonts often face a shortage of typefaces that evoke a vintage or nostalgic mood.
For this reason, whenever there’s a need to convey an old-fashioned feeling through typography, we usually have to either give up on the idea or make do by tweaking existing fonts just to get the job done!
Daftar Arabic!
With the inclusion of diacritics and certain special ligatures, the Daftar Font is capable of supporting texts written in the Arabic language.
English Typeface
The English typeface chosen to accompany Daftar has been carefully modified, through the addition of texture, erosion, and adjustments in form, to closely resemble its Persian counterpart. This ensures that in bilingual texts, both scripts share a consistent tone and visual harmony.
Symbols
While typing, you can enhance the visual appeal of your design by using the symbols included in the Daftar Font character set.
These symbols can be manually inserted into your text through the Glyphs panel.
Daftar typeface was reconstructed, refined, and produced in 2017 at Daftar Studio under the supervision of Majid Kashani. A large number of old newspapers, books, magazines, and advertisements were used as sources to extract the letters and ligatures.
This font was first released for a limited time on the Iranian Organ Donation website, with all proceeds dedicated to supporting patients in need of organ transplants.
Daftar Studio team members for this project:
Art Director: Majid Kashani
Collaborators: Melika Hosseini, Meraj Ghanbari
With appreciation to: Damoon Khanjanzadeh, Mohammadreza Abdolali
Special thanks to: Amir Mesbahi, Moslem Ebrahimi, and the Iranian Organ Donation Association.
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Mail fonts: in TTF and OTF formats, in one weight
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Daftar supports: Arabic, English and Persian
Studio Daftar is a design studio with a focus on artistic management, graphic design, and consulting for publishers, art centers, cultural events, and artists.
He holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Graphic Design from the University of Tehran. He completed type design courses under the supervision of Sedaghat Jabari and Masoud Sepehr at the university, while also attending independent workshops at Vije School with Damoon KhanjanZadeh. He has collaborated closely with various studios, including Kargah Studio, Sepehr Studio, Daftar Studio, and Markazi Studio, in type design and font development. His released typeface families include the exclusive typeface family for Saman Bank, the Royasamin font family, and the Roudaki font family for the Roudaki Foundation.
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