Thirty-six classic and modern Arabic fonts, each with a large live sample, a short history of the tradition, and a direct link that opens the generator with that style ready to go.
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The everyday script of books and the Qur'an: balanced, rounded and the easiest Arabic calligraphy style to read at small sizes.
Standardised in the 10th century by Ibn Muqla, Naskh replaced angular Kufic for copying manuscripts and remains the base of most printed Arabic type today.
Typeface: Lateef
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Geometric, square-shouldered letterforms. Perfect for logos, tattoos, posters and anything that should look bold and structural.
The oldest Arabic calligraphic style, named after the city of Kufa in Iraq, used on early Qur'ans, coins and mosque tilework.
Typeface: Reem Kufi
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Highly cursive with sweeping curves and tightly interlocked letters — the most decorative choice for names and wedding art.
Developed in the Ottoman chancery (diwan) in the 16th century; its density made official documents hard to forge.
Typeface: Layla Diwani
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Short strokes, flat baselines and small counters. This is how most of the Arab world handwrites today.
Formalised in the Ottoman era for fast everyday writing, Ruqaa is the first script Arabic schoolchildren learn to write by hand.
Typeface: Aref Ruqaa Ink
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Tall, dramatic verticals and deep curves. The showpiece style used for titles, mosque inscriptions and wall art.
Named for the 'one third' proportion of its curved strokes, Thuluth has been the ceremonial display script since the 9th century.
Typeface: Layla Thuluth
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A light, modern calligraphic hand — elegant thin strokes that suit minimal branding and social posts.
Contemporary digital revivals blend traditional pen logic with simplified shapes made for screens.
Typeface: Katibeh
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A hanging, diagonal script with sweeping descenders and compact word shapes. Especially suited to Persian and Urdu poetry, names and elegant quotations.
Nastaliq developed in Persia during the 14th and 15th centuries by combining qualities of Naskh and Ta'liq, then became a leading literary hand across Iran and South Asia.
Typeface: Noto Nastaliq Urdu
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Refined Naskh proportions, generous diacritics and a manuscript-like rhythm designed for dignified verses, literary passages and formal compositions.
This digital interpretation follows the mature Naskh tradition used by scribes for Qur’anic and scholarly texts, prioritising clarity without losing pen-made character.
Typeface: Amiri
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A tall, compact display face inspired by Fatimid-era architectural inscriptions, with emphatic verticals and carved geometric presence.
Fatimid Kufic flourished across North Africa and Egypt from the 10th to 12th centuries, appearing in stone, stucco, woodwork and monumental religious architecture.
Typeface: Qahiri
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The classic hand of North Africa and al-Andalus: rounded letters of even thickness, wide open bowls that dip below the line, and long stretched horizontals.
Maghrebi script descends directly from early Kufic and was used for centuries in Morocco, al-Andalus and the Sahel. This is the open-source Bouazzi Maghribi revival, a faithful digital take on the traditional pointed-pen manuscript hand.
Typeface: Bouazzi Maghribi
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Letters locked into a strict square grid of right angles — the boldest, most architectural style for logos, seals and statement pieces.
Square Kufic (Kufi murabba) arranged text into geometric grids on mosque walls, coins and tiles from the 12th century onward.
Typeface: Blaka Ink
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A hollow, outlined variant of square Kufic geometry — airy and ornamental, striking at large sizes for posters and tattoo outlines.
Decorated Kufic added flourishes, knots and openwork to the early angular script, adorning manuscripts and buildings across the medieval Islamic world. This outlined face echoes that ornamental spirit.
Typeface: Blaka Hollow
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Broad, horizontal letterforms with minimal curves, recalling the earliest Qur'an manuscripts. Solemn and timeless for heritage designs.
Early Kufic dominated Qur'an copying from the 7th to 10th centuries, written in wide horizontal strokes on vellum. Kufam is a contemporary typeface inspired by those early forms.
Typeface: Kufam
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Sloping, suspended strokes with dramatic rhythm — the Persian chancery hand, ancestor of Nastaliq, full of movement and flair.
Taliq ('hanging') script served Persian royal chanceries from the 13th century and fathered Nastaliq. Lalezar revives mid-century Iranian display lettering in that theatrical Persian spirit.
Typeface: Lalezar
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The bold, wide-nibbed hand of West African Ajami manuscripts — rounded, confident and unmistakably different from Middle Eastern styles.
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
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Long horizontal sweeps and majestic proportions in the spirit of the 'king of scripts', ideal for dignified verses and certificates.
Mohaqqaq was the grand script of deluxe Mamluk Qur'ans, famed for its extended horizontal strokes. This rendering uses a traditional Naskh-flavoured font as a digital approximation.
Typeface: Rakkas
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A Qur'an-focused cut of Amiri with refined vowel marks and the measured rhythm of printed mushaf pages.
Amiri Quran is a companion to Amiri, the revival of the Bulaq Press Naskh used in Cairo editions from the 1900s, tuned for Qur'anic text.
Typeface: Amiri Quran
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Kufic geometry with softened, rounded joints. Friendly enough for kids' brands and cafés while keeping a structured Kufic skeleton.
A playful sibling of Reem Kufi, the Fatimid-Kufic-based typeface by Khaled Hosny, with rounded terminals for a lighter tone.
Typeface: Reem Kufi Fun
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Reem Kufi drawn as a colour font. On the canvas it follows your text colour; elsewhere it shows its built-in ink.
Reem Kufi Ink adds layered colour glyphs to the Reem Kufi design, an experiment in multicolour Arabic type on the web.
Typeface: Reem Kufi Ink
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A heavy, confident Nastaliq with deep diagonal word shapes, made for Urdu headlines, posters and poetry quotes.
Gulzar is a modern Urdu Nastaliq typeface that follows Lahore-style calligraphic proportions for display use.
Typeface: Gulzar
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A graceful Naskh-based face with high contrast and refined terminals for invitations, quotes and certificates.
Mirza is an open-source Arabic typeface built on traditional Naskh forms with a Latin companion, designed for elegant text and titles.
Typeface: Mirza
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The broad, heavy pen of Kano and Sahel manuscripts, with thick horizontals and compact, rounded letters.
Alkalami by SIL International is modelled on the Arabic handwriting of northern Nigeria and Niger, used for Hausa and Kanuri Ajami.
Typeface: Alkalami
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A clear, warm text style based on West African Arabic writing, with open shapes that stay readable at small sizes.
Harmattan by SIL International supports the letters and conventions of Arabic-script languages across the Sahel, named after the region's dry wind.
Typeface: Harmattan
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Ultra-dense, compact letters with very short ascenders. Built to fill posters and banners with weight.
Jomhuria is a heavy Arabic display face by KB Studio, drawn in the tradition of bold Persian and Arabic poster lettering.
Typeface: Jomhuria
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Bouncy, irregular letterforms with a hand-cut feel, ideal for party invites, kids' content and social stickers.
Marhey is a contemporary Arabic display typeface with a cheerful, informal rhythm, part of the Google Fonts Arabic expansion.
Typeface: Marhey
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Clean, modern letters inspired by Cairo street signs and mid-century Egyptian lettering.
El Messiri by Mohamed Gaber draws on Egyptian signage and calligraphic logic, balancing modern geometry with Naskh-based forms.
Typeface: El Messiri
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Round, soft-cornered letters with a gentle, friendly feel for food brands, cafés and greetings.
Lemonada by Mohamed Gaber is a rounded Arabic and Latin display family designed for warm, approachable branding.
Typeface: Lemonada
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Groovy, swelling strokes that recall vintage Arabic film posters and 1970s record sleeves.
Vibes is a retro Arabic display typeface with exaggerated curves, inspired by the bold lettering of Arabic pop culture from past decades.
Typeface: Vibes
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A striking headline face with sharp contrast and confident shapes, designed for titles and big statements.
Badeen Display is a modern Arabic display typeface added to Google Fonts for expressive headline typography.
Typeface: Badeen Display
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Letters built from a modular dot grid, like LED signs and retro screens. Great for gaming and tech themes.
Handjet by Rosetta is a variable typeface whose glyphs are assembled from modular elements, inspired by handheld label makers and pixel displays.
Typeface: Handjet
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Arabic letters cut with the sharp, broken strokes of blackletter, a bold crossover for music, tattoos and streetwear.
Blaka by Mohamed Gaber fuses Arabic forms with European blackletter (Gothic) construction, an experimental cross-cultural typeface.
Typeface: Blaka
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Wide, squared and dynamic letters that feel like team jerseys and racing graphics.
Changa by Eduardo Tunni is a squared Arabic and Latin family with a technical, athletic personality.
Typeface: Changa
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A heavy, contemporary sans with tight joins, inspired by the lettering of Beirut's street posters.
Beiruti by Boutros is a variable Arabic family rooted in Lebanese signage, shown here in its boldest weights.
Typeface: Beiruti
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A calm, readable book face with Naskh roots, suited to longer quotes, poetry and printed texts.
Markazi Text by Borna Izadpanah is a text typeface inspired by the Arabic types of mid-20th-century book printing.
Typeface: Markazi Text
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Chubby, rounded letters full of character for children's products, cartoons and playful logos.
Baloo Bhaijaan 2 by Ek Type is the Arabic member of the Baloo superfamily, a friendly rounded display design.
Typeface: Baloo Bhaijaan 2
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Casual, handwritten letters like a child's careful writing with a felt pen, warm and informal.
Playpen Sans Arabic by TypeTogether extends the Playpen Sans handwriting family to Arabic, designed for learning and friendly communication.
Typeface: Playpen Sans Arabic
Thirty-six open-source Arabic typefaces spanning Naskh, Kufic, Diwani, Ruqaa, Thuluth, Nastaliq, Qur’anic Naskh, Fatimid Kufic and contemporary interpretations. All render live in your browser.
Yes. They are open-source Google Fonts, free for personal and commercial artwork. Check each font's licence if you plan to redistribute the font files themselves.
Naskh is rounded, cursive and built for reading body text. Kufic is angular and geometric, historically used for inscriptions, coins and architecture, and it reads as bold and modern today.
For contemporary branding, the Modern and Kufic styles here give clean geometric shapes, while Naskh stays the most legible choice for longer text.
Yes — click 'Use this style' on any font to open the generator with that style preselected, then type your own word or name.