Scheherazade New

Try Scheherazade New

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Scheherazade New Regular
• Medium 500Scheherazade New Medium
• SemiBold 600Scheherazade New SemiBold
• Bold 700Scheherazade New Bold

About Scheherazade New

Scheherazade New is an Arabic-script typeface in the traditional Naskh style. Its makers state that it supports every Arabic script character in Unicode 14.0, which reaches well beyond the Arabic language to the extended letters other languages add to the script. The name comes from the storyteller heroine of the Arabian Nights. Four static weights are available, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700; Medium and SemiBold arrived with an update dated April 2023, after a May 2022 revision that enlarged the glyph set. The fonts hold 1,822 glyphs. The Latin letters, shown in the specimen, are a conventional bookish serif with bracketed serifs and moderate contrast, covering English and Western European languages. SIL developed the family and publishes it under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, reserving the names Scheherazade and SIL.

Where Scheherazade New works

Books and long text in Arabic script

Four weights of a traditional Naskh give body text, emphasis and headings without leaving the style.

Languages with extended Arabic letters

Coverage of the Unicode 14.0 Arabic repertoire includes the additional letters used outside the Arabic language.

Scholarly and reference publishing

A full character repertoire reduces fallback to other fonts when rare letters or marks appear in citations.

Bilingual documents

The built-in Latin serif lets English or French notes sit beside Arabic-script text without a second family.

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
• Estonian

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 Scheherazade New

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 Scheherazade New 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: "Scheherazade New";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ScheherazadeNew-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Scheherazade New";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ScheherazadeNew-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Scheherazade New";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ScheherazadeNew-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Scheherazade New";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ScheherazadeNew-SemiBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 600;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Scheherazade New", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Scheherazade New 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=Scheherazade+New:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Latin coverage is basic

The Latin part has no Latin Extended subset; Turkish, Polish and other Central European languages are not among those with complete letters.

No italic or slanted style

The four styles differ in weight only, from Regular to Bold.

Static files

Each weight is a separate file, and the family is not a variable font.

FAQs

Collections with Scheherazade New

• Fonts that support Arabic

  Open-license families for the Arabic script with a matching Latin: Naskh text faces, Kufi-based sans-serifs and display designs.

Similar fonts

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