Your name in Arabic type styles
Type a name in Arabic or in Latin letters and see it in fonts that imitate the classic styles of Arabic calligraphy. Download the one you like.
Arabic letters, or Latin letters and Arabizi numbers (like 3ali or 7amad).
Converted from Latin letters, which is often a guess, because short vowels are not written in Arabic. Fix it here if needed.
Runs on your device. The name is not uploaded or saved, and the images are made in your browser.
Each style here is a digital font that imitates a calligraphic style. Real calligraphy is written by hand by a trained calligrapher, who shapes and arranges every letter for that name. No open-licence font we checked follows Thuluth or Diwani closely, so we have left them out rather than fake them. For a wedding card, a sign or a gift, ask a calligrapher.
About the styles
Named after the city of Kufa in Iraq, and often called the oldest Arabic script. Early Kufi was used for copies of the Quran and later for decoration on buildings, coins and pottery. Early writing often left out the dots.
A clear, rounded script refined in the 10th century. Most printed books, newspapers and printed copies of the Quran use Naskh-style type.
A quick, compact script that grew up in Ottoman government offices. Many people's everyday Arabic handwriting is close to Ruqaa.
A flowing, hanging style used mostly for Persian and Urdu. The font here is designed for Urdu, so some letters look slightly different from Arabic habits.
Sources: fonts Amiri, Reem Kufi and Qahiri (Khaled Hosny and the Alif Type project), Aref Ruqaa, Noto Nastaliq Urdu (Noto project), Lalezar (Borna Izadpanah), Rakkas (Zeynep Akay), Marhey and Blaka, all under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, from the Google Fonts library. They are subset to Arabic letters and served from this site; their licence texts are in /assets/fonts/calligraphy/. Style history: "Arabic calligraphy" (Wikipedia: Kufi named after Kufa and the oldest form; Diwani from the Ottoman era) and "A brief overview of the various Arabic calligraphic styles" (Rosetta Type, 2016: Naskh refined by Ibn Muqlah in the early 10th century; Ruqʿah created in Ottoman government offices). Alphabet: UCL "Arabic alphabet" and Wikipedia "Arabic alphabet" (28 letters). Images you download are yours to use; the fonts' licence allows embedding them in documents.