Parastoo
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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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/parastoo2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/parastoo/wght.css';3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Parastoo 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
/* parastoo-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Parastoo Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/parastoo:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
}Background & Story
Parastoo is a refined Persian typeface designed by Saber Rastikerdar, developed with modern Farsi usage in both print and digital contexts in mind. Rooted in a traditional Naskh-inspired structure, Parastoo features clean lines, subtle serifs, and balanced proportions that give it a formal yet approachable appearance. It offers high readability and smooth visual flow, with moderate stroke contrast and thoughtful spacing that support long-form reading and dense text layouts.
Designed primarily for Farsi, Parastoo ensures accurate rendering and typographic integrity in contemporary environments, addressing many of the localization and display issues found in older, legacy Farsi fonts. While it draws stylistic influence from classic typefaces such as B Nazanin, Parastoo modernizes the aesthetic and technical foundations to better suit today’s multilingual publishing needs. It retains compatibility with other Perso-Arabic script languages, making it a versatile choice for professional and editorial use.
Please note that this is a Persian-first font and requires explicitly setting the Arabic language in your application to achieve standard Arabic text shaping.
To contribute, please see github.com/googlefonts/parastoo-font.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/parastooDesigned by
Saber Rastikerdar
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License
OFL-1.1