SIL’s Writing Systems Technology has created a number of fonts for use in writing Arabic script. Our Extended Arabic fonts were designed for a variety of styles and uses. Each of our fonts supports a different set of Arabic script characters. The fonts with near-complete Arabic script coverage are Scheherazade New, Harmattan, and Lateef. Each of the other fonts supports a subset of the Arabic script. That subset is based on the characters known to be required by the languages in that region.
The fonts are listed below:
Scheherazade New is a Naskh-style font covering just about every need we know about in the Arabic script world.
Harmattan was designed to suit the needs of languages using the Arabic script in West Africa.
Lateef is also a Naskh-style font and is an appropriate style for use in Sindhi and other languages of the southern Asia.
Alkalami is a Rubutun Kano font for Arabic-based writing systems in the Kano region of Nigeria and Niger.
Ruwudu is a Rubutun Kano font for Arabic-based writing systems in the Kano region of Nigeria and Niger. This font was initially designed as a lighter or companion version of Alkalami.
Awami Nastaliq is a Nastaliq-style font supporting a wide variety of languages of Pakistan, including but not limited to Urdu.
