AFAIK, they don't cover completely the Arabic blocks in Unicode or have bad alignment with Latin script because some aim for Quran or pure Arabic text only not for mixed scripts. There are few other beautiful fonts listed in Tanzil project. It is also called the world’s most languages-supported typeface, it supports Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Urdu, Khmer, and Vietnamese alphabets. It is available in most Debian derivatives: Helvetica font is a very famous sans serif font due to its being widely used.
Install the Amiri font sudo apt-get install fonts-hosny-amiri Its design is a revival of the beautiful typeface pioneered in earlyĢ0th century by Bulaq Press in Cairo, also known as Amiria Press, afterĪmiri font covers the full Unicode 6.0 Arabic and Arabic Supplementīlocks, as well as the compatibility Arabic Presentation Forms-A and BĮnable universe repository sudo apt-add-repository universe Amiri is an Arabic Naskh style typographically oriented font.Īmiri is a classical Arabic typeface in Naskh style for typesetting Currently, fonts-hosny-amiri has the best Unicode coverage in my experience.
