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Palsam Arabic

Palsam Arabic

by Abjad
Individual Styles from $45.00
Complete family of 10 fonts: $400.00
Palsam Arabic Font Family was designed by Ali Almasri and published by Abjad. Palsam Arabic contains 10 styles and family package options.

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About Palsam Arabic Font Family


Since the beginning, Palsam was intended to be a super multilingual family, with a real cursive Arabic companion, and a display cut. The typeface was designed to be used for setting text and titles of contemporary Arabic content, specially magazines, and websites. The Arabic and Latin scripts were designed at the same time, to make a true authentic bilingual typeface. Both scripts have affected each other in several ways through the entire design process, which happened within ten years.


Palsam has an inviting, approachable, fashionable and humanist look. Thanks to its low contrast, open apertures, detailed calligraphic strokes, and smooth counters, which also make it easy to read at smaller sizes.


The main highlight for Palsam was the Cursive companion. For the first time, the calligraphic Ijaza style was used as a model for designing the Arabic cursive. Since the Ijaza is a hyper combination of Naskh and Thuluth, which makes it perfect to be a companion for the upright Naskh. Moreover this script was used in margins, and to highlight specific content inside a paragraph in older manuscripts.


With true cursive companions in five weights, and many opentype features, Palsam grants all the tools needed to set complex information and editorial designs applications. More than 1000 characters are included per weight, including small caps, fractions, old style and lining numbers, ligatures, contextual ligatures, and discretionary ligatures. It supports over 40 languages that use the Latin extended, as well as Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu Languages. PalsamArabic only covers the Arabic script.


The latin script was designed in collaboration with the Slovenian type designer Alja Herlah.

Designers: Ali Almasri

Publisher: Abjad

Foundry: Abjad

Original Foundry: unknown

Design Owner: Abjad

MyFonts debut: Apr 8, 2020

Palsam Arabic

About Abjad

Abjad is a multilingual type foundry that focuses on Arabic more than Latin... The foundry publishes high quality Arabic typefaces, and craft them to work for specific platforms, wither it's a digital website, magazine, poster, book, or newspaper. Abjad type foundry also focuses on designing typefaces that work well in multilingual situations, where a matching Arabic and Latin typeface is needed. The foundry also provides custom typefaces that follows a certain brief, which usually complement the visual corporate identity of a company. Abjad was founded in 2014 by Ali Almasri.

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