Arabic Font Generator

How to Use It (and What You Need to Type)

Type Arabic into the box at the top, or paste a phrase you already have. Every style below updates as you type. Click a card to copy the plain text to your clipboard, or use the PNG and SVG buttons to export the lettering as an image. Nothing is sent to a server, and there is nothing to install.

The one thing you need is Arabic text itself. This tool does not convert English into Arabic. If you write "hello" you get "hello" in an Arabic typeface — which renders as ordinary Latin letters, because an Arabic font's distinctive shapes live in the Arabic letterforms, not in a filter applied to Latin ones. To type Arabic you need an Arabic keyboard layout: iPhone and Android both ship one (Settings → General → Keyboard → Add New Keyboard → Arabic on iOS; add an Arabic layout in Android's Gboard settings), and Windows and macOS have built-in Arabic layouts too. Many people instead write the phrase in any app that accepts Arabic, then copy it across.

Why Arabic Letters Join Together — and When They Break Apart

The Arabic alphabet has 28 letters and no upper or lower case, but a word is not built from 28 fixed shapes. Each joining letter has up to four forms — isolated, initial, medial and final — and which one appears depends on its position in the word. That selection, plus the mandatory lam-alif ligature, is done by the text engine at the moment the text is drawn. It is not stored in the file or the message.

This is why Arabic sometimes arrives broken. Paste text into an app whose shaping is weak, or into a field that stores presentation forms rather than plain letters, and you can get disconnected letters rendered left to right — technically readable characters, visually wrong. The same happens if a zero-width non-joiner (U+200C) sneaks in from a bad copy: it explicitly tells the engine "do not join here", and only someone who reads Arabic will notice the word looks strange.

Mixed Arabic and English is the other common failure. Text is laid out by the bidirectional algorithm using a base direction, and a bio that starts with an English word takes Latin as its base direction — so an Arabic phrase in the middle can end up in the wrong place. The practical fixes are simple: keep the Arabic and the Latin on separate lines, or put the Arabic first and the English after. Directional marks (RLM U+200F) solve it properly, but they are invisible characters that other people cannot reproduce when they copy you.

Everything exported from this page as an image sidesteps all of it. The shaping is resolved once, on your screen, and baked into pixels or vector paths — so it looks identical for everyone, on every platform, forever.

Choosing Between the Eleven Faces

A quick map, grouped by what each is actually for.

• Amiri. A naskh revival in the tradition of early Arabic book printing. The most literary face here: use it for body copy, quotations and anything read at length.

• Scheherazade New. Built by SIL International for texts that carry full vowel marks. Taller line height and complete tashkeel support, so diacritics never collide. The right choice for Quranic and classical material.

• Noto Naskh Arabic. Google's neutral, high-coverage naskh. Unremarkable in the best sense — it is the face that will render correctly in the most places.

• Aref Ruqaa. A ruq'ah face: the letterforms of fast handwriting, with the simplified joins that makes. Reads as direct and human. Good for a single statement line.

• Reem Kufi. Historic kufi translated into type — angular, wide, austere. Strong for titles, logos and headings; too slow for paragraphs.

• Noto Kufi Arabic. A modern geometric take on kufi rather than a revival. Keeps the square-cut character but with even weights and open spacing, so it works at small sizes.

• El Messiri. A display face with the posture of Egyptian poster and shop-sign lettering. Confident and a bit loud — which is the point.

• Cairo and Tajawal. Two contemporary Arabic sans-serifs. Flat, geometric, built for screens. Where you want the text to look like an app rather than a book, use one of these.

• Lemonada. A warmer humanist sans with softer terminals. Friendlier than Cairo without becoming decorative.

• Marhey. A casual display face, rounded and playful. For stickers, memes and informal graphics — never for anything serious.

Limits Worth Knowing Before You Rely on This

No transliteration. This generator does not turn Latin letters into Arabic words, and no Arabic font can. Romanisation is a linguistic mapping with real ambiguities — several Arabic letters collapse onto the same Latin one — so a tool that claims to do it silently guesses, and the guesses change your meaning. Write or paste the Arabic yourself.

No Nastaliq, and no Persian/Urdu-specific letters beyond what the Arabic block covers. The letters پ چ ژ گ are used for Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish and others. Some faces here include them and some do not; if your text depends on them, check the preview closely before exporting, because a missing letter shows as a fallback glyph from another font.

Pasted text is only as good as its source. If you copy Arabic out of a PDF, a screenshot OCR, or an old document that stored presentation forms, the underlying characters may already be wrong even though the text looks fine on your screen. A reliable test: paste it into the box here. If the letters join cleanly and read correctly, the characters are sound. If they come apart or reverse, the problem is in the source text, not in the font.

Searchability dies in images. Text pasted as characters can be found by a platform's search; text exported as a PNG cannot. For a display name you want people to look up, use the plain characters. For a poster, an image is the right answer.