Noto Kufi Arabic
Kufi is the hand Arabic inscriptions and early Qur'anic manuscripts were written in, and it is a different proposition from the flowing Naskh most Arabic text is set in: the strokes are shorter and flatter and the descenders far shallower, which is what makes it hold a line at a large size. This is the Noto project's reading of it — simplified and monolinear rather than architectural, and deliberately neutral. Nine weights on one axis.
See Noto Kufi Arabic in a paragraphCompare with Noto Sans and Albert Sans
Noto Kufi Arabic at a glance
- Commercial use
- Yes · OFL 1.1
- On a website
- Yes · WOFF2 here
- Variable
- Yes · 9 weights
- In a logo
- Yes
- Türkçe (ı İ ğ ş)
- Yes
- Italic
- No
Alphabets
Size ladder
96
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
64
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
40
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
24
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
16
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
12
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Specification
- Designer
- Released
- 2020
- Category
- Sans-serif
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Headlines, Titles, Interfaces, Signage
- Weights
- 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- Yes
- Glyphs
- 1,706
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Arabic
- Download size
- 214 KB
Noto Kufi Arabic character map
Latin109
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- •
- …
Latin Extended163
Western European
- À
- Á
- Â
- Ã
- Ä
- Å
- Æ
- Ç
- È
- É
- Ê
- Ë
- Ì
- Í
- Î
- Ï
- Ð
- Ñ
- Ò
- Ó
- Ô
- Õ
- Ö
- Ø
- Ù
- Ú
- Û
- Ü
- Ý
- Þ
- ß
- à
- á
- â
- ã
- ä
- å
- æ
- ç
- è
- é
- ê
- ë
- ì
- í
- î
- ï
- ð
- ñ
- ò
- ó
- ô
- õ
- ö
- ø
- ù
- ú
- û
- ü
- ý
- þ
- ÿ
Central and Eastern European
- Ā
- ā
- Ă
- ă
- Ą
- ą
- Ć
- ć
- Ċ
- ċ
- Č
- č
- Ď
- ď
- Đ
- đ
- Ē
- ē
- Ė
- ė
- Ę
- ę
- Ě
- ě
- Ğ
- ğ
- Ġ
- ġ
- Ģ
- ģ
- Ħ
- ħ
- Ī
- ī
- Į
- į
- İ
- ı
- Ķ
- ķ
- Ĺ
- ĺ
- Ļ
- ļ
- Ľ
- ľ
- Ł
- ł
- Ń
- ń
- Ņ
- ņ
- Ň
- ň
- Ŋ
- ŋ
- Ō
- ō
- Ő
- ő
- Œ
- œ
- Ŕ
- ŕ
- Ŗ
- ŗ
- Ř
- ř
- Ś
- ś
- Ş
- ş
- Š
- š
- Ť
- ť
- Ū
- ū
- Ŭ
- ŭ
- Ů
- ů
- Ű
- ű
- Ų
- ų
- Ŵ
- ŵ
- Ŷ
- ŷ
- Ÿ
- Ź
- ź
- Ż
- ż
- Ž
- ž
Romanian and other
- Ș
- ș
- Ț
- ț
Türkçe14
- Ç
- ç
- Ğ
- ğ
- I
- ı
- İ
- i
- Ö
- ö
- Ş
- ş
- Ü
- ü
Arabic69
Letters
- ء
- آ
- أ
- ؤ
- إ
- ئ
- ا
- ب
- ة
- 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
- ى
- ي
Persian and Urdu letters
- ٹ
- پ
- چ
- ڈ
- ڑ
- ژ
- ک
- گ
- ں
- ھ
- ہ
- ی
- ے
Digits
- ٠
- ١
- ٢
- ٣
- ٤
- ٥
- ٦
- ٧
- ٨
- ٩
- ۰
- ۱
- ۲
- ۳
- ۴
- ۵
- ۶
- ۷
- ۸
- ۹
Use Noto Kufi Arabic on the web
Self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: 'Noto Kufi Arabic';
/* Take the WOFF2 button above, put noto-kufi-arabic.woff2 wherever
you serve static files from, and point this at it. */
src: url('/fonts/noto-kufi-arabic.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 100 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Noto Kufi Arabic', sans-serif;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/noto-kufi-arabic.css">body {
font-family: 'Noto Kufi Arabic', sans-serif;
}Questions
- Is Noto Kufi Arabic free for commercial use?
- Yes. Noto Kufi Arabic is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Noto Kufi Arabic in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Noto Kufi Arabic belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Google. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Noto Kufi Arabic?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up. Noto Kufi Arabic is a variable font: the single file carries all 9 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Noto Kufi Arabic that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 9 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Noto Kufi Arabic support Turkish?
- Yes. Noto Kufi Arabic includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
- What languages does Noto Kufi Arabic support?
- Noto Kufi Arabic covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Arabic, across 1,706 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
- What weights does Noto Kufi Arabic come in?
- Noto Kufi Arabic comes in 9 weights: Thin (100), Extra Light (200), Light (300), Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi Bold (600), Bold (700), Extra Bold (800) and Black (900). It is a variable font, so every one of them is in a single file and you can also set any weight in between.
- Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Noto Kufi Arabic?
- Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 33 KB against 165 KB for the complete file, 80% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.
- Where can I download Noto Kufi Arabic as WOFF2?
- From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is noto-kufi-arabic.woff2, and it is about 165 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.
Noto Kufi Arabic license
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
- Taken unmodified from google/fonts
- The licence file is inside every zip — the site will not publish a download without one
- This page’s data last changed on 4 September 2026
Pairs well with Noto Kufi Arabic
- Markazi Text
A serif for contrast, built for reading as Noto Kufi Arabic is.
See the two side by side - Amiri
A serif for contrast, built for reading as Noto Kufi Arabic is.
See the two side by side
Cite this page
Noto Kufi Arabic font: licence, alphabets and downloads. Thats My Font. https://thatsmyfont.com/fonts/noto-kufi-arabic (updated 2026-09-04)