Arabic Typography & Font Audit
The layer that decides whether Arabic looks native or merely present.
Arabic typography fails in ways that are invisible to a reader of Latin scripts and unmissable to everyone else. Tracking severs the joins of a connected script. A face with no Arabic coverage falls back silently, so the page renders in something nobody chose. Line-height tuned for Latin crowds ascenders and descenders that Arabic actually uses. None of it looks broken on a screenshot review; all of it looks cheap to the audience you translated for.
What you get
- Font stack review across every breakpoint, including what actually shapes the Arabic rather than what is declared
- Fallback behaviour under real network conditions, not just a warm cache
- Letterform integrity: tracking, synthesised italics, uppercase transforms applied to Arabic
- Line-height, diacritic clearance and comfortable measure for Arabic body text
- A concrete face recommendation with licensing notes, and the CSS to implement it
What we need from you
- The URL
- Your current font licences, so the recommendation is one you can use
Illustrative: the specimen on our own homepage
The before and after on the Ritla landing page is a real rendering of the same string at the same size, differing only in letter-spacing. At the value a real site ships, the damage is visible but easy to miss; that is precisely why it survives design review and ships.
Drawn from our own fixtures and public-site scans. Not a client engagement.
Start with a scan
We would rather look before we talk. Give us the URL and we will run the same scan the homepage runs, then you can tell us what you need.