Noto Kufi Arabic by Google β€” Sans Serif Font β€” preview 11 / 3
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About Noto Kufi Arabic Font

Noto Kufi Arabic is a Kufi design for texts in the Middle Eastern Arabic script. Noto Kufi Arabic has multiple weights, contains 1,706 glyphs, 16 OpenType features, and supports 1,558 characters from 14 Unicode blocks: Arabic Presentation Forms-A, Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-B, Latin Extended-A, Arabic Extended-A, Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Arabic Supplement, Arabic Extended-B, Combining Diacritical Marks, General Punctuation, Spacing Modifier Letters, Latin Extended Additional, Latin Extended-B. Supported writing systems Arabic Arabic ( Ψ§Ω„ΨΉΨ±Ψ¨ΩŠΨ© ) 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

Style & Use Cases

Overall Style
Clean, Modern, Sans Serif
Use Case
Body Text, UI
Ideal For
branding, interfaces, and modern layouts
Pairs With
a contrasting serif for headings

Noto Kufi Arabic Specifications

Font FamilyNoto Kufi Arabic
StyleRegular
Full NameNoto Kufi Arabic Regular
Version2.109
Weight400 (Regular)
Glyph Count1706 glyphs
PostScript NameNotoKufiArabic-Regular
DesignerMonotype Design Team, David Williams, Khaled Hosny
FormatTTF (TrueType)
File Size424 KB

OpenType Features

Noto Kufi Arabic ships with 5 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Discretionary ligatures
  • Standard ligatures
  • Ordinals
  • Proportional figures
  • Tabular figures
  • Variable font Β· axes: wght

Languages Supported

Noto Kufi Arabic supports 329 languages.

How to Install Noto Kufi Arabic Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Noto Kufi Arabic font file (.ttf or .otf).
  2. 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
  3. 3Right-click the font file.
  4. 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
  5. 5Noto Kufi Arabic is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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Noto Kufi Arabic Font is a versatile sans-serif font that works for both headings and body text. Pair it with a contrasting serif or slab serif font to add visual interest and a clear distinction between titles and body copy.

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Noto Kufi Arabic Font

by Google

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team Β· Updated July 2026

License: Open Font License (OFL)
Free
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