Fonts supporting the Arabic Script
Arabic script is used to write Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Ottoman Turkish, Hausa, Punjabi, Malay, Kurdish, and a wide range of other languages worldwide, by over 600 million people. Observant Muslims can generally read the Arabic script as well. It is one of the most widely used scripts in the world. The Arabic script derives from the ancient Nabatean script, with the Syriac script influencing its development. Both were descendants of the older Aramaic script. Letters of the same word are written flowing into one another in cursive fashion, and can have up to four distinct forms based on word position: isolated, initial, medial and final. Isolated letters do not combine with others.
Diacritics are used to represent short vowels, consonant variation and more. Since the script is used to write a wide range of languages, it includes numerous diacritics, additional letters and even modified letter forms across its linguistic range. Many of these are particular to specific linguistic traditions, and are obscure elsewhere. A range of different writing styles are used, often with variations in cursive flow as well. For example, while text in Naskh has a linear cursive flow, text in Nastaliq gradually descends to the baseline from above.
Script Classification | Abjad |
Letter Case | None |
Commonly Used Quotation Marks | «...» |
Numerals | 0–9: ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ [Widely used, although regional variations exist] |
Earliest Recorded Usage | c. 512 CE |
Used to Write | Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Ottoman Turkish, Hausa, Punjabi, Malay, Kurdish, etc. |
Added to Unicode | Version 1.0 (1991) |
- پنغ راوندPing Round9 styles
- پنغPing9 styles
- نوڤمبر ستنسلNovember Stencil36 styles
- نوڤمبرNovember9 styles
- أكتوبرOctober9 styles
- غريتا سانسGreta Sans10 styles
- غريتا سانس مضغوطGreta Sans Compressed9 styles
- غريتا سانس مكثّفGreta Sans Condensed9 styles
- غريتا للنصGreta Text4 styles
- فيدرا سانس للعناوينFedra Sans Display4 styles
- فيدرا سانس ألتFedra Sans Alt4 styles
- فيدرا سانس مكثّفFedra Sans Condensed5 styles
- فيدرا سريفFedra Serif4 styles
- فيدرا سانسFedra Sans5 styles