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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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