Designers: Boutros Fonts / Mourad Boutros, Arlette Boutros

The most widely used font for bilingual (Arabic and Latin) signage and way-finding around the world since 1977, for indoor and outdoor signs, airports, hospitals and offices. It was designed in 1977 by Mourad and Arlette Boutros in collaboration with Letraset to work in perfect harmony with Helvetica.
The design is based on the classical Naskh script. The addition of linked straight lines to match the Latin baseline level is designed to achieve harmony when used alongside a Latin equivalent typeface such as Garamond, Palatino and Times Roman. The light and medium weights are suitable for body text. The other weights are suitable for headlines and sub-headings. The outline, shadow and in-line versions can be used to give extra decoration to all types of communication materials.

If you are planning to buy any of our Arabic or Latin fonts, check out the Free Fonts section first.