Scheherazade New — Free Arabic Google Font
Scheherazade New, from SIL International and named for the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights, is a traditional Naskh design built for complete Unicode Arabic-script coverage — useful well beyond standard Arabic text, into less common characters and diacritics. Recent updates added Medium and SemiBold weights alongside the original Regular and Bold.
About Scheherazade New
Developed with particular attention to full diacritic (harakat) rendering accuracy, Scheherazade New is a common pick for religious or academic text specifically because complex diacritic stacking is where many Arabic webfonts visibly break down.
Designer: SIL International
Best used for
- Linguistically diverse Arabic-script text
- Heavily diacritized (vocalized) text
- Academic and language-preservation projects
Styles & weights
Scheherazade New 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 Scheherazade New
Every weight is available individually above as a .ttf, or grab the whole family at once:
Using Scheherazade New on the web
Load it from the Google Fonts CDN:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Scheherazade+New:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Then reference it in your CSS:
font-family: "Scheherazade New", sans-serif;License
Scheherazade New 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 Scheherazade New 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.