R050: Arabic text falling back past the declared font family (measured, declared, or a webfont that failed to load)
Fonts without Arabic glyphs, letter-spacing that breaks joined letters, cramped line height, and Latin styling applied to Arabic.
The check
- Id
- R050
- Category
- Typography
- Default severity
- high
What it looks for
Arabic text falling back past the declared font family (measured, declared, or a webfont that failed to load)
How to fix it
Declare an Arabic-capable face: font-family: "IBM Plex Sans Arabic", "Noto Sans Arabic", Tahoma, sans-serif, or subset with unicode-range so Arabic gets a deliberate face instead of the system default.
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