Arabic Fonts

The Arabic alphabet is the script font used for writing several languages of Africa and Asia, such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. After the Latin alphabet, the Arabic font it is the second-most widely used font style in the entire world.

The Arabic font was first used to write texts in Arabic, most notably the Qurʼan, the holy book of Islam. With the spread of Islam, the Arabic font came to be used to write many other languages, even outside of the Semitic family to which the Arabic fonts belong. Examples of non-Semitic languages written with the Arabic font include Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Baloch, Malay, Hausa (in West Africa), Mandinka, Swahili (in East Africa), Balti, Brahui, Panjabi (in Pakistan), Kashmiri, Sindhi (in India and Pakistan), Uyghur (in China), Kazakh (in China), Kyrgyz (in China), Azerbaijani (in Iran), Kurdish (in Iraq and Iran) and the language of the former Ottoman Empire. In order to accommodate the needs of these other languages, new letters and other symbols were added to the original alphabet.

The Arabic fonts are written from right to left, in a cursive style, and includes 28 basic letters. Ascender is proud to offer a wide variety of Arabic fonts to accomodate your needs.

Please contact us to discuss with us your needs for Arabic multilingual fonts.