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Kano (West African) Calligraphy Generator

The bold, wide-nibbed hand of West African Ajami manuscripts — rounded, confident and unmistakably different from Middle Eastern styles. Open the free generator and your text renders live in Kano (West African) — then download a high-resolution PNG or SVG.

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About Kano (West African) calligraphy

Named after the Kano tradition of northern Nigeria, where scholars wrote Hausa in Arabic script (Ajami) with a distinctive broad pen. Ruwudu was designed directly from that manuscript tradition.

Typeface: Ruwudu · bold & handwritten

Curious about the tradition? Read more on the Kano (West African) style page, or try another generator: Naskh, Kufic, Diwani or Ruqaa.

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