Tutorials
OpenType Features in Arabic Fonts: Ligatures and Contextual Alternates
How OpenType's init, medi, fina, and isol substitution features and required ligatures like lam-alif let Arabic fonts join their letters correctly on screen.
Tag: typography-basics
All Arabic Calligraphy Fonts articles tagged "typography-basics".
Guides
Pairing Arabic and Latin Fonts: A Practical Guide to Bilingual Typography
How to pair Arabic and Latin typefaces so bilingual designs look intentional, not mismatched — weight matching, sizing, and layout rules that work.
Tutorials
7 Common Arabic Typography Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)
Broken letter connections, wrong-direction text, mismatched fonts — the Arabic typography mistakes that undermine otherwise good designs, and fixes.
Guides
Understanding Arabic Diacritics: A Complete Guide to Harakat
A complete guide to Arabic harakat: what fatha, kasra, damma, sukun, shadda, and tanwin actually do, and when designers should include or omit them in a design.
Tutorials
Arabic Typography Accessibility: Designing for Screen Readers
How to write real alt text for calligraphic images, set the lang="ar" attribute correctly, and handle diacritics so Arabic content works for screen readers.
Guides
Arabic Numerals vs. Eastern Arabic Numerals: What's the Difference?
Why 0-9 are called Arabic numerals, why most Arabic-speaking countries actually write with different Eastern Arabic numerals instead, and where each is used.
Tutorials
RTL Web Design: A Developer's Guide to Building Arabic Websites
A developer's guide to RTL web design: the dir attribute, CSS logical properties, the Unicode Bidi Algorithm, and how to actually test Arabic layouts.
Guides
The Arabic Alphabet Explained: 28 Letters and Four Forms
The Arabic alphabet has 28 letters, four positional forms, and six non-connecting letters — the exact mechanics behind common Arabic typography mistakes.
Guides
Arabic Typography for Non-Arabic Speaking Designers: A Practical Guide
Practical guidance for designers who don't read Arabic but need to work with Arabic type — direction, letter connection, common mistakes, and how to check your work.