Persian Unicode Fonts (original) (raw)

Sample of Roya at 30pt

Roya [ show all samples ] (roya.ttf and royab.ttf)
Source: Free download (farsifonts-0.4.zip) from the FarsiWeb Project.
Stats: Version 2.901 2003 has 260 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Persian)
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic

Sample of Scheherazade at 36pt

Scheherazade [ show all samples ] (ScheherazadeRegOT.ttf)
Source: Free download from SIL International's Arabic script Unicode font page.
Stats: Version 1.0rc1 build 117/117 has 1,197 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Parkari, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek; Also includes letters in the "Arabic Supplement" block), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Kurdish, Sindhi, Urdu)

Sample of Simple Bold Jut Out at 25pt

Simple Bold Jut Out [ show all samples ] (spbldjut.ttf)
Source: Free download of the Arabic font pack from Microsoft (arafonts.exe). Click the download button (marked تحميل) to the left of the filename.
Stats: Version 2.03 has 395 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Persian, Shahmukhi, Urdu)
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, zz01)

various Simple Indust fonts

Simple Indust fonts [ show all samples ]
Fonts shown:

  1. Simple Indust Outline (spindout.ttf)
  2. Simple Indust Shaded (spindshd.ttf)

Source: Free download of the Arabic font pack from Microsoft (arafonts.exe). Click the download button (marked تحميل) to the left of the filename.
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Persian, Shahmukhi, Urdu)
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, zz01)

Sample of Simple Outline Pat at 28pt

Simple Outline Pat [ show all samples ] (spoutpat.ttf)
Source: Free download of the Arabic font pack from Microsoft (arafonts.exe). Click the download button (marked تحميل) to the left of the filename.
Stats: Version 2.03 has 395 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Persian, Shahmukhi, Urdu)
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, zz01)

Sample of Tahoma at 24pt

Tahoma [ show all samples ] (tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf)
Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000.
Stats: Version 3.14 has 2,034 glyphs and 674 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, Latin, Thai, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic

Sample of Terafik at 30pt

Terafik [ show all samples ] (terafik.ttf and terafikb.ttf)
Source: Free download (farsifonts-0.4.zip) from the FarsiWeb Project.
Stats: Version 2.900 2004 has 311 glyphs and 172 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Persian), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic

Sample of Times New Roman at 32pt

Times New Roman [ show all samples ] (times.ttf, timesbd.ttf, timesbi.ttf and timesi.ttf)
Source: Supplied with the Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2) update. Older versions were supplied with various Microsoft products and the Smart package of Microsoft's core fonts project.
Stats: Version 3.00 has 1,674 glyphs and 867 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese.
Warning: Versions prior to 3.00 supported only the Arabic letters used for Arabic and Persian languages.
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, MAR)

Sample of Titr at 30pt

Titr [ show all samples ] (titr.ttf)
Incongruent or incomplete coverage of Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 - U+0669).
Source: Free download (farsifonts-0.4.zip) from the FarsiWeb Project.
Stats: Version 2.901 2003 has 259 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Persian)
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic

Sample of Traditional Arabic at 38pt

Traditional Arabic [ show all samples ] (trado.ttf and tradbdo.ttf)
Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000. Was also part of the Arabic Language Support for Internet Explorer 5.
Stats: Version 1.01 has 530 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Persian), Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic