Playpen Sans Arabic
Designed By
TypeTogether, Azza Alameddine, Laura Meseguer, Veronika Burian, José Scaglione
8 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Playpen Sans Arabic · Regular
Try a short note, a name or a line of your own to compare the strokes and spacing.
8 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Playpen Sans Arabic ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Happy birthday, see you Friday!
A Note On The Page
Playpen Sans Arabic · Regular
A short letter, set in the family.
Thursday afternoon
Dear Alex,
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.
See you there.
8 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
Happy birthday, see you Friday!
Extra Light200
Happy birthday, see you Friday!
Light300
Happy birthday, see you Friday!
Regular400
Happy birthday, see you Friday!
Medium500
Happy birthday, see you Friday!
Semi Bold600
Happy birthday, see you Friday!
Bold700
Happy birthday, see you Friday!
Extra Bold800
Happy birthday, see you Friday!
Playpen Sans Arabic shuffles its letters, so the same letter typed 3 times comes out in different shapes. Every character has alternates, and a shuffler built into the font picks among them as you type, keeping identical forms from landing too close together. The result looks written by a person, uneven in the right way, while the letters stay clear enough for a child to read.
TypeTogether made the Playpen family after more than 2 years of research into how handwriting is taught, the Primarium project. Azza Alameddine and Laura Meseguer worked with Veronika Burian and José Scaglione on this Arabic member. It was drawn with the same tools and the same hand as the Latin, so the 2 scripts feel like 1 person’s notes. In the Arabic the letters vary in shape and the dots and marks shift slightly in position, and there are Ruqʿah alternates for a different flavor of informal writing.
What the files cover. Arabic for 6 languages, Latin for more than 330, 8 weights from Thin to Extra Bold, and a small set of emoji meant as rewards: a star, a thumbs up, a medal, a dinosaur and more. Other Playpen fonts handle Greek, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Hebrew and Thai.
It is made for people who are not designers. A party invitation, a picture book, a teacher’s handout in Arabic and English, a comic.
Characters & Figures
671 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Playpen Sans Arabic
8 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 1.5 MB ↓- Version
- 2.000
- 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/playpen-sans-arabic/playpen-sans-arabic.css">
body {
font-family: 'Playpen Sans Arabic', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Playpen Sans Arabic Heading · Inter Body
Thursday, Half Past Four
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.