Zad v1.0.0

Zad — a clean, open-source Arabic web font. First public standalone release.

What's inside

• 5 weights: Light (300) · Regular (400) · Medium (500) · SemiBold (600) · Bold (700)
• Formats: woff2 (web, ~67 KB/weight) + ttf (desktop)
• Scripts: Arabic + Latin + digits (Arabic-Indic & Latin) + punctuation — 1,657 glyphs
• Shaping: Arabic joining/marks verified with HarfBuzz
• QA: FontBakery — 0 FAIL / 0 FATAL

Quick start

<link rel="stylesheet" href="zad-font/zad.css">

body { font-family: 'Zad', sans-serif; }

Or via CDN (no hosting):

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ahmedvnabil/zad-font@v1.0.0/zad.css">

Downloads

• zad-font-kit-v1.0.0.zip — fonts + zad.css + license + README (drop into any site)
• Source code (zip/tar.gz) — full repo incl. build.py and _src/ masters

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Free for personal & commercial use. Built on IBM Plex Sans Arabic; does not use the Reserved Font Name "Plex". See OFL.txt.

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