Changa — Free Arabic Google Font
Changa is built for text-heavy layouts — short ascenders and descenders and lowercase letters inscribed within a near-square shape let typographers set tight line spacing without crowding. A separate extra-bold sister, Changa One, handles the display/headline role instead.
About Changa
Changa's tall x-height and consistent stroke width make it hold up unusually well at very small sizes, which is why it shows up often in mobile-first interfaces where Arabic body text has to stay legible below 14px.
Designer: Eduardo Tunni
Best used for
- Tight-line-spacing text blocks
- Editorial layouts
- Headlines (via the Changa One companion)
Styles & weights
Changa ships with 7 weights on this site, self-hosted alongside every other font here so downloads never depend on a third-party server.
- 200 — Extra Light Download .ttf
- 300 — Light Download .ttf
- 400 — Regular Download .ttf
- 500 — Medium Download .ttf
- 600 — SemiBold Download .ttf
- 700 — Bold Download .ttf
- 800 — Extra Bold Download .ttf
Arabic character preview
ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم — مرحبا بالعالم — ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩
Download Changa
Every weight is available individually above as a .ttf, or grab the whole family at once:
Using Changa on the web
Load it from the Google Fonts CDN:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Changa:wght@200;300;400;500;600;700;800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Then reference it in your CSS:
font-family: "Changa", sans-serif;License
Changa is published under the SIL Open Font License (OFL). In practice that means you can use it freely in personal and commercial projects — including embedding it in websites, apps, and printed designs — at no cost. The license does restrict selling the font file on its own; read the exact terms before any edge-case use.
Read the full license text on Google's official font repository ↗
Want to see Changa next to the rest of the library? The Google Fonts Arabic browser lets you filter and compare every font on this page at once, and the Arabic font style previewer covers the full 291-style collection beyond just Google Fonts. Once you've picked a font, the Arabic calligraphy generator lets you set it in a finished design — gradients, backgrounds, and export as PNG, JPG, SVG, or PDF.