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SF Arabic is an extension of Apple’s San Francisco type series, used as the Arabic system font on Apple platforms. It is a “contemporary interpretation of the Naskh style with a rational and flexible design”.
| Tags: body text, sans, monoline, optical sizes | |
| Design: | Apple |
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| Publisher: | Apple |
| Characters: | Arabic |
| Released: | 2021-06-08 |
| Licensing: | Bundled |
| Info/fonts: | developer.apple.com |
A bold headline sans that can vary between back- and forward-slanting positions.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, backslant, gothic, grotesque, inserat, unusual variation, variable posture, woman-designed | |
| Design: | Krista Likar, Alja Herlah |
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| Publisher: | Type Salon |
| Characters: | Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew |
| Released: | 2020-07-14 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | type-salon.com |
A general-purpose sans. Available as a “full family” variable font (covering the full range of weight, width, and italic variations, as shown here), or as subset versions with different combinations of weight, width, and italic axes as separate variable fonts.
| Tags: body text, sans, monoline, neo-grotesque, variable posture | |
| Design: | Dalton Maag |
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| Publisher: | Dalton Maag |
| Characters: | Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2020-02-10 |
| Updated: | 2021-06-02 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | daltonmaag.com |
The Sans members of the larger Zarid series that also includes Serif and Slab counterparts. Pascal Zoghbi designed the Arabic components and Jan Fromm designed the Latin. The Stencil variant was designed by Pascal Zoghbi with consultancy from Jan Fromm on the Latin and released June 27, 2020. The Cyrillic and Greek extensions were designed by Krista Radoeva and released July 13, 2020.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, sans, monoline, stencil | |
| Design: | Pascal Zoghbi, Jan Fromm, Krista Radoeva |
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| Publisher: | 29LT |
| Characters: | Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, Greek |
| Released: | 2020-01-22 |
| Updated: | 2020-07-13 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | 29lt.com |
The Slab members of the larger Zarid series that also includes Serif and Sans counterparts.
Pascal Zoghbi designed the Arabic components and Jan Fromm designed the Latin.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, serif, slab serif, monoline | |
| Design: | Pascal Zoghbi, Jan Fromm |
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| Publisher: | 29LT |
| Characters: | Latin, Arabic |
| Released: | 2020-01-22 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | 29lt.com |
The Serif members of the larger Zarid series that also includes Slab and Sans counterparts.
Pascal Zoghbi designed the Arabic components. For the Latin: Display and Text Upright were designed by Ramiro Espinoza; Serif Upright was designed by Ramiro Espinoza & Khajag Apelian; Serif Slanted and Text Slanted were designed by Jan Fromm.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, serif, directional serifs, optical sizes, sharp, wedge serif | |
| Design: | Pascal Zoghbi, Ramiro Espinoza, Jan Fromm, Khajag Apelian |
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| Publisher: | 29LT |
| Characters: | Latin, Arabic |
| Released: | 2020-01-22 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | 29lt.com |
A spurless sans.
| Tags: decorative/display, body text, sans, feature variations, Johnstonian, monoline, spurless | |
| Design: | Pascal Zoghbi, Adrien Midzic, Swiss Typefaces |
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| Publisher: | 29LT |
| Characters: | Latin, Arabic |
| Released: | 2020-01-22 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | 29lt.com |
A simplified type series with monospaced Latin. Originally released with just the rounded Baseet styles. The sharpened Zawi styles were released March 29, 2020.
| Tags: body text, sans, some serifs, gothic, monoline, monospaced, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, soft corners, straight-sided | |
| Design: | Pascal Zoghbi, Ben Wittner, Swiss Typefaces |
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| Publisher: | 29LT |
| Characters: | Latin, Arabic |
| Released: | 2020-01-22 |
| Updated: | 2020-03-29 |
| Licensing: | Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | 29lt.com |
A sans typeface with a width axis to elongate some strokes for Arabic kashida justification.
| Tags: body text, sans, kashida, neo-grotesque, unusual variation | |
| Design: | Amin Abedi |
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| Publisher: | Amin Abedi |
| Characters: | Arabic, Latin |
| Released: | 2019-10-21 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
A simple sans with Pan-European character support. Expansions were released for Hebrew on November 26, 2019, and Arabic on March 11, 2020.
| Tags: body text, sans, feature variations, multiplexed, multiplexed posture, neo-grotesque, optical sizes, variable posture, woman-designed | |
| Design: | William Montrose, Sláva Jevčinová, David Březina |
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| Publisher: | Rosetta Type Foundry |
| Characters: | Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic |
| Released: | 2019-05-21 |
| Updated: | 2020-03-10 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | rosettatype.com |
A variable incarnation of Eduardo Tunni’s Changa. The Arabic glyphs were designed in collaboration with Mohamed Gaber. The variable font was produced by Eli Heuer.
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, M-formula, rectangular, superellipse | |
| Design: | Eduardo Tunni |
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| Publisher: | Eli Heuer |
| Characters: | Latin, Arabic |
| Released: | 2019-01-08 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
Handjet started as an exercise with design students to make a typeface for handset printers and their 32-pixel vertical matrix, but grew into a large multi-script design.
In 2019, Google sponsored and extension and open-source release of the typeface. Consultants for the project include Maria Doreuli (Cyrillic), Irene Vlachou (Greek), Borna Izadpanah (Arabic), Khajag Apelian (Armenian), and Meir Sadan (Hebrew).
The font is provided with a warning that “variable fonts are relatively new and Handjet sometimes challenges the limits. You might get unpredictable, yet beautiful and somewhat amusing, rendering errors in Adobe software. It works well in browsers as far as we know.”
| Tags: decorative/display, sans, modular, multiplexed, multiplexed weight, pixel, polygonal, straight-sided, unusual variation | |
| Design: | David Březina |
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| Publisher: | Rosetta Type Foundry |
| Characters: | Latin, Vietnamese, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Arabic, Hebrew, dingbats/emoji |
| Released: | 2018-12-04 |
| Updated: | 2021-05-12 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | rosettatype.com |
Titillium started as a collaborative open source font project at Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino. It was expanded by Mohamed Gaber to support Arabic (under the name Cairo), and adapted to a variable format by Eli Heuer. The upright font currently covers a wider range of weights than the italic.
| Tags: body text, sans, monoline, superellipse | |
| Design: | Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, Mohamed Gaber |
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| Publisher: | Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, Kief Type Foundry, Eli Heuer |
| Characters: | Latin, Arabic, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2018-11-20 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
A multi-script sans, influenced by both mechanical and calligraphic forms. The Arabic glyphs were designed by Borna Izadpanah with direction from Fiona Ross. The Latin glyphs come from Skolar Sans, designed by David Březina and Sláva Jevčinová.
| Tags: body text, sans, feature variations, woman-designed | |
| Design: | Borna Izadpanah, David Březina, Sláva Jevčinová |
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| Publisher: | Rosetta Type Foundry |
| Characters: | Arabic, Latin |
| Released: | 2018-10-30 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | rosettatype.com |
A multi-script typeface for body text inspired by Tim Holloway’s original Markazi. The Arabic glyphs were designed by Bornā Izadpanāh with direction from Fiona Ross, and the Latin glyphs were designed by Florian Runge.
| Tags: body text, serif, wedge serif, woman-designed | |
| Design: | Borna Izadpanah, Florian Runge, Fiona Ross |
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| Publisher: | Borna Izadpanah, Google |
| Characters: | Arabic, Latin, Vietnamese |
| Released: | 2018-05-08 |
| Licensing: | Open source |
| Info/fonts: | github.com |
A geometric sans covering 4 writing systems – Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Latin – in weights from Light to Black.
| Tags: body text, sans, geometric, woman-designed | |
| Design: | Jérémie Hornus, Julie Soudanne, Ilya Naumoff |
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| Publisher: | Black[Foundry] |
| Characters: | Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew |
| Released: | 2018-01-30 |
| Licensing: | Trial, Paid/commercial |
| Info/fonts: | black-foundry.com |