Noto Sans Arabic
Designed By
9 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Noto Sans Arabic · Regular
Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.
9 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Noto Sans Arabic ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
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A Clear Hierarchy
Noto Sans Arabic · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Departures09:00 →
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
9 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
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Extra Light200
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Light300
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Regular400
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Medium500
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Semi Bold600
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Bold700
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Extra Bold800
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Black900
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Noto Sans Arabic takes the swing between thick and thin out of the Arabic stroke. It is the unmodulated, sans serif Arabic in Google’s Noto collection, drawn by the Monotype design team with Nadine Chahine and Nizar Qandah, and Khaled Hosny is credited as well.
That plainness matters because of how much ground the script covers. Arabic is an abjad written right to left, among the 3 most used scripts in the world with about 660 million users, in use for the Arabic language since the 4th century. Its 28 basic letters are extended with extra ones for other languages, among them:
- Persian and Urdu
- Pashto, Kurdish, Uyghur and Sindhi
- Kashmiri and Balochi
- Somali and Mandinka
Short vowels are optional marks above and below the line, so a font for all of these has to handle a lot of combinations, and the shaping itself needs software with complex text layout support.
9 weights, Thin to Black. Tabular figures line up numbers in a price list or a timetable, and Latin comes along in the same files. For an app or a website that has to serve readers of Arabic and Urdu alike in 1 family, this is where we would start; for a book of poetry, a modulated Naskh would sit better with most readers.
Characters & Figures
1,561 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Noto Sans Arabic
9 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 809 KB ↓- Version
- 2.012
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/noto-sans-arabic-2/noto-sans-arabic-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Noto Sans Arabic', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.
Noto Sans Arabic Heading · Noto Sans Arabic Body
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.