Aref Ruqaa
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Configuration
Select the weights and styles you want to include in your project.
Weights
Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/aref-ruqaa2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Aref Ruqaa", serif;
}Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style -->Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* Please select at least one weight and style */Background & Story
Aref Ruqaa is an Arabic typeface that aspires to capture the essence of the classical Ruqaa calligraphic style.
The Latin part is based on AMS Euler, but spaced for regular text rather than mathematics.
The Aref Ruqaa project is led by Khaled Hosny, a type designer based in Cairo, Egypt. To contribute, see github.com/alif-type/aref-ruqaa
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource/aref-ruqaaDesigned by
Abdullah Aref, Khaled Hosny, Hermann Zapf
Links
License
OFL-1.1