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About Noto Sans Arabic.

Noto is a global font collection for writing in all modern and ancient languages. Noto Sans Arabic is an unmodulated (“sans serif”) design for texts in the Middle Eastern Arabic script. It has multiple weights and widths, and 1,642 glyphs.

Designer
Google
Classification
Sans Serif
Coverage
80 languages
Package release
v33
Updated
Mar 12, 2026
Monthly usage
  • npm150,017 downloads last month
  • jsDelivr12,540,772 requests last month
License
OFL-1.1

Style and character

Visual characteristics associated with this family.

  • Competent
  • Sincere
  • Humanist

The story

Noto Sans Arabic is an unmodulated (“sans serif”) design for texts in the Middle Eastern Arabic script.

Noto Sans Arabic has multiple weights and widths, contains 1,642 glyphs, 12 OpenType features, and supports 1,161 characters from 6 Unicode blocks: Arabic Presentation Forms-A, Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-B, Arabic Extended-A, Arabic Supplement, Basic Latin.

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.

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.

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

Styles and axes

9 weights in normal style.

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

  • WidthAdjust the style from narrower to wider, by varying the proportions of counters, strokes, spacing and kerning, and other aspects of the type.wdth · 62.5–100 · default 100
  • WeightAdjust the style from lighter to bolder in typographic color, by varying stroke weights, spacing and kerning, and other aspects of the type.wght · 100–900 · default 400

OpenType features

Typographic behaviors that adjust character forms, spacing, and positioning. 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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Attribution

Copyright 2022 The Noto Project Authors (https://github.com/notofonts/arabic)

Copyright 2022 The Noto Project Authors (https://github.com/notofonts/arabic)

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Provider
Google Fonts
Source files
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Formats
TTF
Revision
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