We recommend the Gentium font, which is used by the Encyclopedia of Islam. ![]() Most of them can be used for styling text in any Arabic-script language including Arabic, Persian (Farsi), Dari, Kurdish (Sorani), Punjabi, Pashto, Urdu, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Uyghur. Unicode fonts and instructions for including Arabic diacritics Below you will find instructions to permit any PC user to include a wide range of diacritic characters required when transliterating Arabic into English text. Some of them are made by support from the local governments (Uthman, Nastaliq, Neirizi) and some others are made by individuals. I list them all in the near future in another post about commercial Arabic and Persian (Farsi) fonts, but here I introduce the available free fonts I find most useful. Free fonts often have not all characters and signs, and have no kerning pairs (Avenue A venue, Tea T ea). So most of the efforts in this field is done by a few companies (like Linotype, Monotype, and some others) outside the Middle East. The reason for that might be the fact that one cannot make any money by designing Arabic or Persian typefaces. ![]() We have Amiri Unicode Font, Diwani Regular ANSI Font, Cairo Google Web Font and many more. ![]() Fonts suitable for typing on website, blog or Facebook. The fonts here are true Arabic fonts ready to be used in any Arabic or Persian (Farsi) layout.Īs you might have noticed there are not that many companies making Arabic fonts. Download and install Unicode & ANSI Arabic fonts on your PC, Mac and smart phones for FREE. What I want to introduce here are not a bunch of links to some Arabic-looking “exotic” Latin-script fonts.
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