Arabic fontsالعربية
Arabic typefaces for print, screen and signage. Type your own text into the preview: Arabic letters change shape with their position in a word, and that joining is where fonts differ most.
9 open-licensed fonts that can set Arabic, each free to download for personal and commercial work.
صف خلق خود كمثل الشمس إذ بزغت
Khaled Hosny, Sebastian Kosch · OFL-1.1Arabic +3
صف خلق خود كمثل الشمس إذ بزغت
Abdullah Aref, Khaled Hosny, Hermann Zapf · OFL-1.1Arabic +3
صف خلق خود كمثل الشمس إذ بزغت
Mohamed Gaber, Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino · OFL-1.1Arabic +3
صف خلق خود كمثل الشمس إذ بزغت
Khaled Hosny, Santiago Orozco · OFL-1.1Arabic +4
صف خلق خود كمثل الشمس إذ بزغت
Boutros Fonts, Mourad Boutros, Soulaf Khalifeh · OFL-1.1Arabic +1
صف خلق خود كمثل الشمس إذ بزغت
Borna Izadpanah, Fiona Ross, Alice Savoie, Simon Cozens · OFL-1.1Urdu +3
صف خلق خود كمثل الشمس إذ بزغت
Borna Izadpanah · OFL-1.1Persian +4
صف خلق خود كمثل الشمس إذ بزغت
Google · OFL-1.1Urdu +3
صف خلق خود كمثل الشمس إذ بزغت
Saber Rastikerdar · OFL-1.1Persian +3
Naskh, Kufi and the rest
Naskh is the rounded book hand most Arabic is read in — the safe choice for body text. Kufi is angular and geometric, at home in logos and headlines. Ruqaa and Diwani come from handwriting and calligraphy, and work best large and short.
Vowel marks
Everyday Arabic is mostly written without harakat, the short-vowel marks. If your text uses them — scripture, poetry, children's books — check them in the preview: placing them well is one of the first things a weaker font gets wrong.
Setting Arabic text
Arabic needs right-to-left layout and letters that join. Word handles both once Arabic is added under its language settings. In Photoshop, switch to the Middle Eastern and South Asian text engine under Preferences → Type if letters appear disconnected.