Aref Ruqaa

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Aref Ruqaa Regular
• Bold 700Aref Ruqaa Bold

About Aref Ruqaa

Aref Ruqaa is an Arabic typeface that sets out to reproduce Ruqaa, a classical calligraphic hand, in font form. Alongside the Arabic it carries a Latin alphabet taken from AMS Euler, with the spacing adjusted for running text instead of mathematics; Hermann Zapf is listed among the family's designers. In the specimen that Latin is upright yet clearly pen-written: strokes swell and taper, stems flare at their ends in place of formal serifs, the A has a pointed, leaning apex, and y and z end in curved calligraphic tails. Two weights are available, Regular and Bold, with no italic. The fonts hold 739 glyphs covering Arabic and the basic Latin subset. Abdullah Aref is named as designer in the fonts, and Khaled Hosny, who works in Cairo, leads the project. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Aref Ruqaa works

Arabic headlines and titles

The Ruqaa model gives titles the look of handwritten calligraphy, with Bold for the main line.

Book covers and posters

Two weights let a title and an author line share the same calligraphic style.

Bilingual invitations and certificates

The pen-written Latin was chosen to accompany the Arabic, so names in both scripts keep a handwritten tone.

Short Latin display lines

On their own, the flared upright Latin letters give a heading a calligraphic look without a slant.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Arabic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: arabic, latin. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Aref Ruqaa

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Aref Ruqaa on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Aref Ruqaa";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ArefRuqaa-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Aref Ruqaa";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ArefRuqaa-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Aref Ruqaa", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Aref Ruqaa with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Aref+Ruqaa:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Basic Latin only

The Latin side is limited to the basic Latin subset. French is covered except for the rare capital Ÿ.

Two weights, no italic

Aref Ruqaa has Regular 400 and Bold 700. It is not a variable font.

Reserved name

The license notice carries the Reserved Font Name EURM10, which a modified version may not use without permission.

FAQs

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