Ara ES Taqniya is a modern and streamlined Arabic face font with a geometric appearance. It’s sans-serif font with a clear and uncluttered outlook, making it easy to read and understand. It was designed by an Arabic font designer, Fahf Al Fraikh, and released on April 1, 2019. Manufactured by font foundries iSkyFalConS & ZakDesigN and Arabic Fonts LIB, this font offers an extensive character set comprising 312 letters and symbols with a glyph count of 296. It is not a calligraphic typeface yet includes mild influences of Naskh in it. It has a well-proportioned composition with horizontal influence and thin baseline, creating visual effect. Moreover, it has blunt angles and wide and sharp terminals, giving it a modern appeal. It is available in 2 different font weights, including:
- Ara ES Taqniya Bold
- Ara ES Taqniya Regular
The strokes vary in thickness, with thin lines for downstrokes and thicker lines for upstrokes. This contrast enhances the visual appeal. The font prefers aesthetics over readability. Therefore, its screen legibility is relatively low, especially at smaller sizes. With its broad language support, including Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Latin, and more, the font can handle multilingual projects without any problems. Moreover, the font offers compatibility with a variety of Unicode Block including Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Arabic, General Punctuation, Currency Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, and more, indicating its diverse nature. Ara ES Taqniya has straight letterforms with contrasting thicknesses, which can only used for decorative or creative design purposes like branding, logos, social media posts, posters/flyers, etc.
