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Portada Arabic

by TypeTogether
Individual Styles from $67.00 USD
Complete family of 6 fonts: $372.00 USD
The Portada Arabic Font Family was designed by Veronika Burian, José Scaglione, Sahar Afshar and published by TypeTogether. Portada Arabic contains 6 styles and family package options.

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For everyone wishing for a modern Arabic typeface that’s clear and readable in restrictive digital environments, meet Portada Arabic by Sahar Afshar. As an expansion of the Portada family, Portada Arabic addresses the main problems of typefaces on screens: font families with a slightly flared structure may appear fickle and unsteady, pixel grids change from one screen dimension to another, and space is always a high concern. So low contrast fonts have become the go-to choice on small screens to save space and carry a modern tone. Portada Arabic now provides a Naskhstyle option for these restrictive digital environments, putting to rest the old idea that screens require low contrast fonts. The screen has met its match.

The unique Portada Arabic was created from and for the digital world — from e-ink or harsh grids to Retina capability — and these properties are also what makes it warm in printed formats. Portada Arabic’s text and display styles were engineered from the Naskh style for superlative performance to make great use of balanced letterforms, ample character height, clear interior negative space, and its subservient personality. After all, legibility always takes priority in text.

The Portada Arabic family is made of four text styles, six display styles, two icon sets, and comes in two variable fonts. The text styles have more generous spacing and less contrast than the display; when printed, these details bring warmth to paragraphs. Portada Arabic’s display styles enact slight changes while reducing the individual width of each character and keeping the internal space clear, all to retain their digital clarity. As a free download, the exhaustive set of dark and light icons are designed to maintain Portada Arabic’s consistent presence in modern communication and apps, whether as a word or an image.

In addition to the rest of the multiscript Portada family, Portada Arabic also supports Persian, Urdu, Dari, Aimaq, Dehwari, Talysh, and Qashqa’i. Digital magazines, printed newspapers, your favourite novel, and all forms of continuous screen reading benefit from Portada Arabic’s features. This family also covers many of the needs developers have: user interface, showing data intensive apps on screen, even one word directives and dialogs. Portada Arabic is a rare Arabic typeface made to be applied across printed material and the digital world, and especially for extensive, clear screen use.

Designers: Veronika Burian, José Scaglione, Sahar Afshar

Publisher: TypeTogether

Foundry: TypeTogether

Design Owner: TypeTogether

MyFonts debut: May 5, 2025

Portada Arabic

About TypeTogether

Veronika Burian and José Scaglionemet and developed a respectful kinship while completing their Master’s degrees in type design at University of Reading, UK. Established in 2006, TypeTogether is an independent, cosmopolitan type foundry that creates text typography for intensive digital and print editorial use. We have grown into a core team living worldwide and invested in the daily work, networked with other type designers who intermittently cooperate on specific projects. Through our unique, diverse, curated font platform, TypeTogether creates innovative and stylish solutions to the greatest problems in the professional typography market. The advantage of being a small but highly specialized company is that we are able to work closely with our clients to accomplish their goals and to respond quickly to their requirements. To carry an organisation’s unique voice across all communications, TypeTogether creates custom type solutions for discerning clients worldwide. Distinct advantages in your market can be gained through logotype creation, commissioning a brand new typeface, modifying existing typefaces, or extending language support. TypeTogether creates cross-platform OpenType fonts of recognised aesthetic and technical excellence and which perform well in continuous reading. Our internationally awarded catalogue — honoured for its high quality, usefulness, personality, and ability to grab attention — spans many languages and scripts and is diligently expanding each year.

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