Noto Naskh Arabic
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1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/noto-naskh-arabic2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/noto-naskh-arabic/wght.css';3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Noto Naskh Arabic Variable", 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
/* noto-naskh-arabic-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Noto Naskh Arabic Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/noto-naskh-arabic:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
}Background & Story
Noto Naskh Arabic is a modulated (“serif”) Naskh design, suitable for texts in the Middle Eastern Arabic script and for use together with serif fonts.
Noto Naskh Arabic has multiple weights, contains 1,598 glyphs, 12 OpenType features, and supports 1,122 characters from 6 Unicode blocks: Arabic Presentation Forms-A, Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-B, Arabic Supplement, Arabic Extended-A, 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.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/noto-naskh-arabicDesigned by
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License
OFL-1.1