Tajawal — Free Arabic Google Font
Tajawal is a low-contrast geometric sans from Boutros™ that keeps one foot in traditional Arabic calligraphy while reading as thoroughly modern. Its fluid, evenly-weighted letterforms make it equally at home in a website's body text or paired with Latin typefaces in print.
About Tajawal
Tajawal comes from Boutros, the Arabic type foundry of Mourad Boutros, with Soulaf Khalifeh also credited on Google Fonts. It was added to Google Fonts in 2018 in seven weights, from ExtraLight to Black. The brief was a low-contrast Arabic paired with a sans-serif Latin, following a modern geometric style while still respecting the calligraphic rules of Arabic letter construction, for both print and web use.
Tajawal comes from Boutros™ and leans slightly warmer than most geometric Arabic sans fonts, with rounder terminals that read less "corporate" than Cairo at display sizes — a reasonable pick when a brand wants approachable rather than strictly neutral.
Designers: Boutros Fonts, Mourad Boutros, Soulaf Khalifeh
Best used for
- Body text on websites
- Print and editorial layouts
- Pairing with Latin typefaces
How Tajawal compares
Almarai is its closest relative here — also by Boutros, also low in contrast — but Almarai was tuned for on-screen reading and ships only four weights, while Tajawal's seven make it the better choice for a full typographic hierarchy. Compared with Cairo, Tajawal has none of the Kufi angularity, so it reads quieter and more neutral in long text.
Tips for using Tajawal
Tajawal works at body sizes in Regular and Medium and holds up as a headline face from Bold upward. Its designers intended it to sit alongside other Latin typefaces, so pairing it with a geometric Latin sans is natural. If you set vocalised text, check the diacritics in the preview above at your real size before committing.
Styles & weights
7 weights, self-hosted:
- 200 — Extra Light Download .ttf
- 300 — Light Download .ttf
- 400 — Regular Download .ttf
- 500 — Medium 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 Tajawal
Using Tajawal on the web
Load it from the Google Fonts CDN:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Tajawal:wght@200;300;400;500;700;800;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Then reference it in your CSS:
font-family: "Tajawal", sans-serif;License
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