Harmattan — Free Arabic Google Font
Harmattan, named for the seasonal trade winds of West Africa, is SIL International's typeface for the Warsh style of Arabic script used across that region — a simplified rendering approach distinct from the Hafs style most other Arabic fonts follow. It's a specialist choice for West African Arabic-script languages rather than a general-purpose Naskh.
About Harmattan
Harmattan was developed by SIL International for languages that use the Arabic script in West Africa, and is drawn in the Warsh style rather than the Hafs style most Arabic fonts follow — worth knowing if a project needs Arabic-script coverage for West African languages specifically rather than for Modern Standard Arabic.
Designer: SIL International
Best used for
- West African Arabic-script languages
- Warsh-style Qur'anic text
- Simplified-ligature rendering
Styles & weights
Harmattan ships with 4 weights on this site, self-hosted alongside every other font here so downloads never depend on a third-party server.
- 400 — Regular Download .ttf
- 500 — Medium Download .ttf
- 600 — SemiBold Download .ttf
- 700 — 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 Harmattan
Every weight is available individually above as a .ttf, or grab the whole family at once:
Using Harmattan on the web
Load it from the Google Fonts CDN:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Harmattan:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Then reference it in your CSS:
font-family: "Harmattan", sans-serif;License
Harmattan 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 Harmattan 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. If you like Naskh designs specifically, browse the whole Naskh category. 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.