Kawkab Mono is a Qalam writing Urdu/Arabic font family with a wide letterform. It was released in 2015 by Adobe and designed by font designer Abdullah Arif. This display font offers high readability with its clean and clear structure. It is based on the Naskh calligraphic script, which is seen in its horizontally aligned letterforms. The font has sharp diagonal cut edges and curved pointy terminals, adding elegance. Instead of being curved from the middle, the letters are wide and straight, which gives the font a sense of identity. It is available in 3 weights, offering high diversity. This way, you can use a single font to create variation in your typographic designs. Its weights include:
- Kawkab Mono Light
- Kawkab Mono Regular
- Kawkab Mono Bold
Kawkab Mono is a versatile font with 1,544 characters and 1,854 glyphs, providing extensive support for multiple scripts, including Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Greek. It features a medium font width, making it suitable for various design needs. The font’s solid strokes ensure high legibility with clean, clear letterforms free of extra decorations, which makes it great for both long and short texts. Kawkab Mono is particularly well-suited for headings, titles, UI designs, books, magazine covers, branding, and posts. The font has a monospaced design, with evenly spaced letters to enhance readability even at smaller sizes. Its changing thickness throughout the letterforms adds visual interest while maintaining clarity. It is compatible with a wide range of Unicode blocks, such as Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Greek and Coptic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, and many others, making it ideal for multilingual projects.
