Persian fontsفارسی
Fonts that cover the full Persian alphabet, including the four letters Arabic does not use: پ چ ژ گ. Families drawn for Persian are listed first.
8 open-licensed fonts that can set Persian, each free to download for personal and commercial work.
بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند
Borna Izadpanah · OFL-1.1Persian +4
بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند
Saber Rastikerdar · OFL-1.1Persian +3
بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند
Khaled Hosny, Sebastian Kosch · OFL-1.1Arabic +3
بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند
Abdullah Aref, Khaled Hosny, Hermann Zapf · OFL-1.1Arabic +3
بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند
Mohamed Gaber, Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino · OFL-1.1Arabic +3
بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند
Borna Izadpanah, Fiona Ross, Alice Savoie, Simon Cozens · OFL-1.1Urdu +3
بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند
Google · OFL-1.1Urdu +3
بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند
Khaled Hosny, Santiago Orozco · OFL-1.1Arabic +4
Not just Arabic with four extra letters
Persian writes kāf and yeh as ک and ی — different characters from the Arabic ك and ي, even where they look alike. A font with only the Arabic forms borrows the Persian ones from another font, mid-word.
Numbers
Persian has its own digits — ۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹۰ — which are separate characters from the Arabic ٤ ٥ ٦. If your text has numbers, type them into the preview to check the font draws them.
Setting Persian text
Persian needs right-to-left layout and letters that join. In Word, add Persian under the language settings. In Photoshop, switch to the Middle Eastern and South Asian text engine under Preferences → Type. Use a zero-width non-joiner where spelling needs a break inside a word, as in میخواهم.