Readex Pro
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/readex-pro 2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/readex-pro/wght.css'; 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Readex Pro Variable", sans-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
/* readex-pro-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Readex Pro Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/readex-pro:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
} Background & Story
Could a new typeface make it easier for the more than 400 million Arabic speakers around the world to read?
Type designers Dr. Nadine Chahine and Thomas Jockin joined forces to find out. They created Readex Pro in Arabic using the methodology behind Lexend, made for Latin. The name Readex was chosen as a shortened form of “reading expanded.”
When Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup started the Lexend project, her goal was to help people to read more easily and fluently by reducing visual noise. The Lexend fonts have distinct letterforms, and offer the option to widen tracking (the spacing between letters) together with widening the shapes of individual letterforms themselves. This novel functionality is based on a theory known as the “Shaver-Troup Formulation,” which was described in detail in a 2003 USA patent application.
To learn more, read The Design of Readex Pro (English) and خط Readex Pro: استكشاف حدود سهولة قراءة النص من خلال خط عربي جديد (Arabic)
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/readex-pro Designed by
Thomas Jockin, Nadine Chahine, Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Santiago Orozco, Héctor Gómez
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License
OFL-1.1