All Arabic calligraphy styles
Kano (West African) Arabic Calligraphy
كانو
The bold, wide-nibbed hand of West African Ajami manuscripts — rounded, confident and unmistakably different from Middle Eastern styles.
سلام
About this style
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
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