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Articles on Arabic fonts and the Arabic script: choosing a font and checking its license, making Arabic work in your software and on the web, Arabic typography and calligraphy, the history of the script, and the alphabet, numerals and arabizi.
Every Ramadan and Eid greeting with its exact Arabic spelling, vowel marks, meaning and reply, the Kareem or Mubarak debate, and free fonts tested… Read more : Ramadan Kareem in Arabic and Eid Mubarak: Spelling, Meaning, Lettering
Find the Arabic fonts Canva already has, upload a free Arabic font to your Brand Kit with the right files, and fix reversed, boxed… Read more : Arabic Fonts in Canva: Find, Upload and Fix Them
Kufi, Naskh, Thuluth, Diwani, Ruq'ah, Nastaliq, Maghribi and the rarer pens: how to tell them apart by angle, alif and baseline, where each one… Read more : Arabic Calligraphy Styles Compared: A Visual Key to Nine Scripts
All 28 Arabic letters in their four forms, with ALA-LC transliteration and IPA, the six letters that never join forward, dot families, the sounds… Read more : The Arabic Alphabet: 28 Letters, Their Forms and How They Join
A tested Arabic font CSS setup: @font-face with an Arabic unicode-range, pyftsubset subsets that keep their features, preload with crossorigin, and the line-height, letter-spacing… Read more : Arabic Font CSS: A Tested Setup from @font-face to Bidi
Separated letters, reversed words, boxes or a full stop on the wrong side: one test line tells you whether the app, the font or… Read more : Arabic Letters Not Connecting or Reversed? Causes and Fixes by App
Photoshop now shapes Arabic on its own; Illustrator and InDesign still need the right composer. Exact menu paths for direction, digits, diacritics and kashida,… Read more : Arabic Text in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign: Setup Guide
GE SS Two, Dubai Font, DIN Next Arabic, Janna, 29LT Bukra, Hacen: who owns each one, what its license allows, and the open-licensed fonts… Read more : Free Alternatives to Commercial Arabic Fonts: GE SS, Dubai, DIN Next
What each Arabic font license lets you do with a logo, a website, an app, an ebook or a video: OFL, Apache, GPL, Windows… Read more : Arabic Font Licenses Explained: OFL, Apache, System Fonts and EULAs
Why the UN chose 18 December, how UNESCO came to mark it, every recent theme checked at the source, and ways to celebrate through… Read more : World Arabic Language Day: Why 18 December, Themes and Type Ideas
