Mada — Free Arabic Google Font
Mada takes its cue from road signage around Cairo, Egypt — Khaled Hosny's unmodulated, open Arabic forms pair with a Latin component adapted from Source Sans Pro. The low-contrast, low-descender design was built for small point sizes and interface text, though its clean geometry scales up well for display use too.
About Mada
Mada's letterforms stay unusually consistent in stroke width across all its weights, which makes it a dependable choice for data-heavy layouts (tables, dashboards) where inconsistent weight jumps between Light and Bold can make numbers harder to scan.
Designers: Khaled Hosny, Paul D. Hunt
Best used for
- Signage and wayfinding
- Interface and UI text
- Small point-size body copy
Styles & weights
Mada ships with 8 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
- 900 — Black 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 Mada
Every weight is available individually above as a .ttf, or grab the whole family at once:
Using Mada on the web
Load it from the Google Fonts CDN:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Mada:wght@200;300;400;500;600;700;800;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Then reference it in your CSS:
font-family: "Mada", sans-serif;License
Mada 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 Mada 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 Modern Sans designs specifically, browse the whole Modern & Digital 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.