R053: Arabic body text below 14px
Fonts without Arabic glyphs, letter-spacing that breaks joined letters, cramped line height, and Latin styling applied to Arabic.
The check
- Id
- R053
- Category
- Typography
- Default severity
- low
What it looks for
Arabic body text below 14px
How to fix it
Use ≥ 15–16px for Arabic body text; Arabic glyphs carry more detail per em than Latin and turn to noise at small sizes.
More typography checks
- R050Arabic text falling back past the declared font family (measured, declared, or a webfont that failed to load)
- R051letter-spacing applied to Arabic text (breaks the connected script)
- R052line-height below 1.5 on Arabic body text
- R054Italic/oblique applied to Arabic text
- R055Latin display styling (uppercase + tracking) applied to Arabic
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