Arabic Fonts

Shop for Arabic Fonts in the Linotype Library

Linotype offers a lot of new, modern and traditional Arabic fonts. These fonts are available in OpenType format and they support the Arabic, Persian and Urdu languages. But that´s not all: These fonts also include basis Latin characters that match the Arabic in style and weight, and an extra set of proportional numerals, and they adhere to Linotype´s high standard of technical quality.

Linotype´s 1st Arabic Type Design Competition:

The jury meeting took place in Bad Homburg on November 15, 2006. The prizes were given out to the winners in a special award ceremony in Dubai on April 6, 2007 during the arabic calligraphy & typography conference Kitabat.

Headline Fonts

Text Fonts

				Frutiger® Arabic Light‚ Roman‚ Bold & Black Modern monolinear humanist Kufi great for signage and corporate communication.


				Janna™ Regular & Bold Modern geometric Kufi ideal for headlines and low resolution displays.

					Tanseek™ Modern Light‚ Medium‚ Bold & Extra Bold A large family of modern and traditional designs in both Arabic and Latin.


				Isra™ Thin & Regular A thin and elegant design, great for advertising.

					Amer® Regular A funky monolinear font with large open characters.

				Sultan Nahia™ Regular A monolinear and geometric Kufi with a modern feel.

					Ahmed Regular A bold and elegant Kufi design, perfect for high impact titles.

				Ahmed Outline Regular An outline font based on Kufi, suited for large headlines.

					Firas™ Regular A very bold and calligraphic kufi with contextual alternates.

				Mofid® Mahdi Regular Very black, very mechanical, with a geometric and industrial feel.

					Hakim Ghazali™ Regular A unique design based on Al-Maghribi (Moroccan) style

				Hisham® Regular Very bold Naskh, suited for large sizes.

					Qadi® Bold Bold, and very elegant, Naskh style suited for newspaper headlines.

				Al Harf Al Jadid™ One Strong black effect designed for large headlines.

					Al Harf Al Jadid™ Two An outline version of newspaper headlines.

				Mariam® Bold A black condensed design that is both economic and powerful.

					Kufi™ Outline Regular An outline Kufi design that works best in large sizes.

				Kufi™ Regular A flowery and elegant Kufi inspired by Arabic calligraphy.

				Koufiya™ Regular & Bold First every matching Latin and Arabic, perfect for bilingual publications and corporate identity.

					Badiya™ Regular & Bold Low contrast Naskh for modern looking publications and magazines.

				Midan™ Regular A modern Naskh suitable for magazines.

					Insan™ Thin‚ Regular & Bold A modern low-contrast Naskh suitable for corporate communication.

				Mitra® Light & Bold A stylish and modern design based on Naskh.

					Palatino® Arabic Regular Poetic and elegant calligraphic Naskh for books and invitations.

				Tanseek™ Traditional Light‚ Medium‚ Bold & Extra Bold A large family of modern and traditional designs in both Arabic and Latin.


				ASV Codar® Light & Bold A funky monolinear font with large open characters.

					Sultan Free Regular A free style with quick and graceful strokes.

				Jalal® Light & Bold Very elegant Naskh with open and extended proportions.

					Nazanin® Light & Bold Graceful and superbly designed Naskh with a Persian flavour.

				Yakout® Light & Bold The ultimate newspaper font, a widely popular Linotype original.

					Lotus® Light & Bold A well-tried bookface with a classic feel.

				Hassan® Light & Bold Calligraphic and compact proportions.

					Maged® Regular & Bold A Naskh style with a strong base and a slight angle.

				Badr® Light & Bold A classical proportioned bookface.

					Karim® Regular Highly graphic and elegant design.

ASV Codar, Amer, Badr, Hassan, Hisham, Jalal, Karim, Lotus, Maged, Mariam, Mitra, Mofid Mahdi, Nazanin, Qadi and Yakout are trademarks of Linotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions. Al Harf Al Jadid, Firas, Hakim Ghazali, Insan, Isra, Kufi, Midan and Sultan Nahia are trademarks of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

Tanseek is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

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