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About Noto Kufi Arabic.

Noto is a global font collection for writing in all modern and ancient languages. Noto Kufi Arabic is a simplified, unmodulated (“sans serif”) Kufi design mainly for texts in larger font sizes in the Middle Eastern Arabic script. It has multiple weights and 733 glyphs.

Designer
Google
Classification
Sans Serif
Coverage
80 languages
Package release
v27
Updated
Mar 27, 2026
Monthly usage
  • npm8,358 downloads last month
  • jsDelivr25,270,274 requests last month
License
OFL-1.1

Style and character

Visual characteristics associated with this family.

The story

Noto Kufi Arabic is a Kufi design for texts in the Middle Eastern Arabic script.

Noto Kufi Arabic has multiple weights, contains 1,706 glyphs, 16 OpenType features, and supports 1,558 characters from 14 Unicode blocks: Arabic Presentation Forms-A, Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-B, Latin Extended-A, Arabic Extended-A, Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Arabic Supplement, Arabic Extended-B, Combining Diacritical Marks, General Punctuation, Spacing Modifier Letters, Latin Extended Additional, Latin Extended-B.

Supported writing systems

Arabic

Arabic (العربية) is a Middle Eastern abjad, written right-to-left (660 million users). 2nd- or 3rd-most used script in the world. Used for the Arabic language since the 4th century, and for many other languages, often in Islamic countries or communities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, like Persian, Uyghur, Kurdish, Punjabi, Sindhi, Balti, Balochi, Pashto, Lurish, Urdu, Kashmiri, Rohingya, Somali, Mandinka, Kazakh (in China), Kurdish, or Azeri (in Iran). Was used for Turkish until 1928. Includes 28 basic consonant letters for the Arabic language, plus additional letters for other languages. Some letters represent a consonant or a long vowel, while short vowels are optionally written with diacritics. Variants include Kufi with a very simplified structure, the widely-used Naskh calligraphic variant, and the highly cursive Nastaliq used mainly for Urdu. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on ScriptSource, Unicode, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, r12a.

Latin

Latin (Roman) is a European bicameral alphabet, written left-to-right. The most popular writing system in the world. Used for over 3,000 languages including Latin and Romance languages (Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian), Germanic languages (English, Dutch, German, Nordic languages), Finnish, Malaysian, Indonesian, Filipino, Visayan languages, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Polish, Somali, Vietnamese, and many others. Derived from Western Greek, attested in Rome in the 7th century BCE. In the common era, numerous European languages adopted the Latin script along with Western Christian religion, the script disseminated further with European colonization of the Americas, Australia, parts of Asia, Africa and the Pacific. New letters, ligatures and diacritical marks were gradually added to represent the sounds of various languages. Read more on ScriptSource, Unicode, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, r12a.

Characters and features

What this family includes and how its files are structured.

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Language and character coverage

Arabic is the primary writing system.

  • Algerian Arabic
  • Arabicالعربية (العالم)
  • Arabic, Standardالعربية
  • Azerbaijani (Arabic)
  • BakhtiariArabic
  • Balochiبلۏچی · Arabic
  • BaltiArabic
  • BejaArabic
  • BerberArabic
  • BrahuiArabic
  • Central KurdishArabic
  • CopticArabic
  • Dariدری · Arabic
  • DeccanArabic
  • Dogri (Arabic)
  • DomariArabic
  • Eastern Cham, Arabic
  • Egyptian Arabic
  • GilakiArabic
  • GujariArabic
  • Hausa (Arabic)
  • HazaragiArabic
  • Indonesian (Arabic)
  • Indus KohistaniArabic
  • Ingush (Arabic)
  • Jola-Fonyi, Arabic
  • Kachi KoliArabic
  • Kanuri (Arabic)
  • Kashmiriکٲشُر (ہِندوستان) · Arabic
  • Kazakh (Arabic)
  • KhowarArabic
  • Kurdish (Arabic)
  • Kyrgyz (Arabic)
  • Lahndaلہندا پنجابی (Arabic) · Arabic
  • LakiArabic
  • Malay (Arabic)
  • Maore Comorian, Arabic
  • Maranao (Arabic)
  • MazanderaniArabic
  • Minangkabau (Arabic)
  • Moroccan Arabic
  • Muslim Tat, Arabic
  • Najdi Arabic
  • Ndzwani ComorianArabic
  • Ngazidja ComorianArabic
  • NobiinArabic
  • Northern HindkoArabic
  • Northern LuriArabic
  • Ottoman Turkish, Arabic
  • Parkari KoliArabic
  • Parsi-DariArabic
  • Pashtoپښتو · Arabic
  • Pattani MalayArabic
  • Persianفارسی (ایران) · Arabic
  • Punjabi (Arabic)
  • SaraikiArabic
  • Sindhiسنڌي (عربي) · Arabic
  • Somali (Arabic)اف صومالِ
  • South Azerbaijani, Arabic
  • Southern HindkoArabic
  • Southern KurdishArabic
  • Southern LuriArabic
  • Susu (Arabic)
  • TachelhitArabic
  • Tajik (Arabic)
  • TalyshArabic
  • Tatar (Arabic)
  • TorwaliArabic
  • Tunisian Arabic
  • Turkish (Arabic)
  • TurkmenArabic
  • Uncoded languages, Arabic
  • Urduاردو (پاکستان) · Arabic
  • Uyghurئۇيغۇرچە (ئەرەب) · Arabic
  • Uzbek (Arabic)اوزبیک (عربی)
  • Wadiyara KoliArabic
  • Western BalochiArabic
  • Western ChamArabic
  • Wolof (Arabic)
  • Zoroastrian DariArabic

Styles and axes

9 weights · Normal

Variable axes let you fine-tune the design between the values shown.

  • WeightAdjust the style from lighter to bolder in typographic color, by varying stroke weights, spacing and kerning, and other aspects of the type.wght · 100900 · default 400

OpenType features

Availability can vary between files.

  • Access all alternatesMakes every alternate form in the font available for selection.aalt
  • Glyph compositionBuilds or separates glyphs so letters and marks shape correctly.ccmp
  • Discretionary ligaturesEnables optional ligatures chosen for style rather than readability.dlig
  • FINAApplies the font’s fina behavior during text shaping.fina
  • INITApplies the font’s init behavior during text shaping.init
  • KerningFine-tunes the space between specific pairs of characters.kern
  • Standard ligaturesReplaces common letter sequences with standard ligatures.liga
  • Localized formsUses character forms appropriate to the selected language or region.locl
  • Mark positioningPositions combining marks relative to their base characters.mark
  • MEDIApplies the font’s medi behavior during text shaping.medi
  • Mark-to-mark positioningPositions combining marks relative to other marks.mkmk
  • OrdinalsUses letterforms designed for ordinal numbers.ordn
  • Proportional figuresUses figures with widths that follow each digit’s shape.pnum
  • Required ligaturesApplies ligatures required for correct script shaping.rlig
  • RTLMApplies the font’s rtlm behavior during text shaping.rtlm
  • Tabular figuresUses equal-width figures that align in tables and columns.tnum

License

Complete terms and attribution for this font.

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Provenance

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Provider
Google Fonts
Source files
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Formats
TTF
Revision
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