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Arabic Web Fonts: 20 Measured Family Profiles

These twenty Arabic web font profiles report measured WOFF2 file sizes from the August 23, 2026 benchmark snapshot. Compare Arabic regular-and-bold totals, mixed Arabic-and-Latin delivery, and available variable files, then open a family for exact package versions, coverage checks, reproducible imports, and nearby alternatives within its recorded classification.

Measured on August 23, 2026. Totals cover normal weights 400 and 700 only. Classification is recorded benchmark metadata; recommended uses are editorial guidance. Variable availability refers to the selected Fontsource source, not every upstream release.

Twenty measured font families, smallest Arabic static total first
Rank	Family	Class	Arabic bytes	Arabic + Latin bytes	Variable Arabic bytes	Declared checks
1	Tajawal	Sans	17,956	38,208	Not in selected source	7/7
2	Reem Kufi	Kufi	18,040	41,872	12,348	7/7
3	Changa	Display	22,220	42,564	23,076	7/7
4	Mada	Sans	23,120	46,544	27,376	7/7
5	El Messiri	Display	24,228	51,864	22,280	7/7
6	Alexandria	Sans	25,724	51,760	31,348	7/7
7	Cairo	Sans	27,244	57,544	30,896	7/7
8	Rubik	Sans	35,060	73,108	32,468	7/7
9	Vazirmatn	Sans	42,816	75,304	46,308	7/7
10	Markazi Text	Naskh	46,060	77,300	41,320	7/7
11	Almarai	Sans	64,584	99,444	Not in selected source	7/7
12	Mirza	Naskh	81,764	108,544	Not in selected source	7/7
13	IBM Plex Sans Arabic	Sans	87,128	125,796	Not in selected source	7/7
14	Noto Kufi Arabic	Kufi	87,812	108,644	123,688	7/7
15	Noto Sans Arabic	Sans	99,068	120,436	165,960	7/7
16	Noto Naskh Arabic	Naskh	105,692	129,240	94,032	7/7
17	Lateef	Naskh	129,740	155,776	Not in selected source	7/7
18	Scheherazade New	Naskh	168,776	195,764	Not in selected source	7/7
19	Amiri	Naskh	208,528	248,372	Not in selected source	7/7
20	Harmattan	Naskh	268,188	289,444	Not in selected source	7/7

Read the measurement method and limitations. File size does not measure latency, caching, shaping or layout shift.

Understand Arabic Unicode coverage and font subsets

Questions and answers

How are the font profiles ranked?

Families are ranked in ascending order by the combined bytes of their Arabic-subset normal 400 and 700 WOFF2 files. Rank measures file size, not speed or readability.

What does declared coverage measure?

The benchmark checks seven representative code points against package-declared Unicode ranges. Passing does not establish complete language coverage, correct shaping, visual quality, or measured rendering performance.

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How are the font profiles ranked?

What does declared coverage measure?

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