Al Qabas is a modern Arabic face Persian font that incorporates subtle calligraphic. It was developed by an Iranian font designer, Rami Bishara. Drawing inspiration from classical Arabic scripting with modern touch, it features slanted edges, a compact baseline, and horizontal emphasis, adding traditional elements with modern design sensibilities. It was released to use on May 26, 2021 and is available free at different secure sources. Moreover, considering its language support, this font caters to Arabic, Latin, Urdu, and Persian languages, ensuring broad applicability across diverse typographic projects. Offering three weights, the font expands its versatility, making it suitable for both short and long texts. These weights are:
- Al Qabas Regular
- Al Qabas Bold
- Al Qabas Light
With 293 characters and 279 glyphs, Al Qabas maintains filled letters with consistent thickness and striking, solid strokes, enhancing legibility and visual appeal. The font’s corners exhibit blunt edges with contrasting sharpness and a slight slant, contributing to its modern yet calligraphic aesthetic. Due to the availability of several weights, it is widely used, including titles, headings, long textual blocks in books and newspapers, logos, and branding applications. The monospaced letter spacing ensures uniformity and readability across various contexts, while its high legibility remains intact even at smaller resolutions. Supported Unicode blocks such as Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Arabic, General Punctuation, Mathematical Operators, Arabic Presentation Forms-A, and -B, further enhance its usability in digital environments.
