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The leading platform for Arabic calligraphy.

الخط العربي

The art of the Arabic letter

Design compositions, build your own fonts, and your letters never break apart.

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  • Runs in your browser
  • Arabic-first, right to left
  • True-vector export

Your tools

The Editor, the Font Builder, and the Shape Builder, all in one free account.

EditorType Arabic and shape it into editable vector calligraphy.Font BuilderAssemble and manage your own calligraphic font packs.Shape BuilderDraw and refine individual glyph shapes and marks.

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  • Projects5
  • Uploaded fonts2
  • Shape packs1
  • Storage100 MB
  • Biggest picture2 MB
  • Photoshop shapes file1 MB
  • Extract letters or shapes from images5
  • Print output (high DPI, crop marks, print-safe black)Included
  • Vector export (SVG + PDF)Not included
  • Laser cutting file (DXF)Not included
  • Type on a pathNot included
  • Advanced templatesNot included
  • Premium assetsNot included
  • KashidaIncluded
  • MedallionNot included
  • Weave (choose which stroke passes in front)Not included
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Pro€4.99 / month
  • Projects30
  • Uploaded fonts10
  • Shape packs5
  • Storage1 GB
  • Biggest picture5 MB
  • Photoshop shapes file10 MB
  • Extract letters or shapes from images50
  • Print output (high DPI, crop marks, print-safe black)Included
  • Vector export (SVG + PDF)Included
  • Laser cutting file (DXF)Not included
  • Type on a pathIncluded
  • Advanced templatesIncluded
  • Premium assetsIncluded
  • KashidaIncluded
  • MedallionIncluded
  • Weave (choose which stroke passes in front)Included
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Studio€9.99 / month
  • Projects100
  • Uploaded fonts30
  • Shape packs15
  • Storage5 GB
  • Biggest picture10 MB
  • Photoshop shapes file32 MB
  • Extract letters or shapes from images200
  • Print output (high DPI, crop marks, print-safe black)Included
  • Vector export (SVG + PDF)Included
  • Laser cutting file (DXF)Included
  • Type on a pathIncluded
  • Advanced templatesIncluded
  • Premium assetsIncluded
  • KashidaIncluded
  • MedallionIncluded
  • Weave (choose which stroke passes in front)Included
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In every plan

  • Build and edit your own Arabic fonts
  • Create alternate letterforms
  • Live Arabic calligraphy engine with kashida control
What sets us apart

Your letters never break apart.

A feature you won't find even in the most famous programs: write on a circle, a wave, or any path you draw, and the letters stay connected and true, as a calligrapher would draw them.

أبجد هوز حطي كلمن in Arabic calligraphy, set on a complete ring with every letter still joined to the nextFull circle
أبجد هوز حطي كلمن in Arabic calligraphy, riding a wave with the joins between its letters unbrokenOn a wave
أبجد هوز حطي كلمن in Arabic calligraphy, following a flowing ribbon of a pathOn a flowing path
أبجد هوز حطي كلمن in Arabic calligraphy, bent along a double curveOn a curve
أبجد هوز حطي كلمن in Arabic calligraphy, arched over a high curveOn an arch
A live render from the engine itself, not a screenshot.
An ornament made of one word repeated in a balanced ring around a center.A live ornament from the engine itself, not a ready-made image.
A denser sunburst ornament, the same word repeating around its center
A second sunburst with finer rays, the word repeating in a tight circle
Ornament and symmetry tool

Turn a word into a complete ornament.

With the editor's ornament and symmetry tool, your word repeats around a single center and becomes a balanced ornament, ready as a logo, a seal, or an art piece. Choose the copies, the style, and the colors, and watch the ornament complete itself.

Interlacing, decided crossing by crossing

Where two letters cross, choose which one passes in front. No tricks, nothing to prepare: lay the letters however you like, press once, and every crossing is woven — however many there are, however tangled.

Three Arabic letters interlaced on a dark page, every crossing between them decided, so each letter passes over one and under another.
Three letters, many crossings, one press.
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Metal that catches the light

Polished steel and chiselled gold, with their moving light, are set inside the editor itself. What you send out is exactly what you saw on the canvas.

A line of Arabic calligraphy in polished steel on a dark plate, with a soft shine sweeping across the letters.
Polished steel, with the shine passing over the letters.
The same line of calligraphy in chiselled gold on a dark plate, with small golden stars turning and twinkling along the edges of the letters.
Chiselled gold, with sparks lit along the letters' edges.

Everything you need, in one place

Design, font building, and tashkeel, together on a single canvas.

Compose on the canvas

  • One canvas, many layers: text, shapes and guides
  • Edit right on the page: drag, resize, rotate
  • Select a whole layer, a single letter, or one part
  • Group, reorder and stack as you like
  • Undo and redo, as far back as you need

Calligraphic control

  • Alternate letter shapes, with join-quality cues
  • Kashida stretch, and fit text to an exact width
  • Size, angle and baseline, letter by letter
  • Color and opacity, letter by letter
  • Pen weight and smoothness, your way
  • Tashkeel that lands in the right place
  • Erasers: brush, freeform and polygon
  • Beautify: forms that join more gracefully
  • Interlacing: at every crossing, choose which letter passes in front

Paths, mirror & symmetry

  • Text on a circle, arc, wave, S-curve or ribbon
  • Type along any guide, even a Bézier curve
  • Mirror horizontally or vertically
  • Muthanna: symmetric mirror compositions
  • Align and distribute by the visible ink

Layers & structure

  • Layers panel: rename, lock, hide, reorder
  • Show or hide any object or group
  • Lock things so they can't move by accident

Font Builder & Shapes

  • Build fonts from scratch, or import OpenType
  • Editors for glyphs, marks and relations
  • Import from SVG, traced images, or PDF
  • Export and reload packs (.fontpack / .zip)
  • Coverage and validation reports
  • Font Shapes: a palette of decorative pieces

Guides, views & artboards

  • Smart guides: line, diagonal, circle, ellipse, Bézier
  • Grid and magnetic snapping
  • Rulers and live distance readouts
  • Zoom, pan and fit to screen
  • Fixed-size artboards with presets and backgrounds

Export & output

  • True-vector PDF
  • Layered, editable SVG
  • PNG at 1×, 2× or 4×
  • Copy to the clipboard as SVG
  • Frame to artboard, content or bleed
  • Transparent or solid background
  • See a preview and the real size before you download
  • JPG and WebP for sharing
  • Export only what you selected
  • Name your file

Print & cutting

  • Crop marks so a print shop knows where to cut
  • Print-safe black that will not smudge on fine strokes
  • Sizes in real millimetres, taken from your page
  • Laser cutting file (DXF) for CNC and laser machines
  • Overlapping letters merged into one clean cut line
  • Warnings for strokes that are too thin, and pieces that would fall out

Projects & workflow

  • Auto-save, plus a manual save when you want one
  • Project list: open, rename, duplicate, delete
  • Templates and presets to start faster
  • Keyboard shortcuts for every major action
  • Saved to your account, with you wherever you sign in

From a word to artwork in three steps

  1. 1

    Type

    Write an Arabic word or phrase, it joins into flowing calligraphy as you go.

  2. 2

    Shape

    Tune the letter forms, the joins, the kashida and the spacing until it reads just right.

  3. 3

    Export

    Send out clean vectors for print, the web, or a cutting machine, in one click.

Made for the way you work today

Nothing to install

It all runs in the browser, open a link and start writing.

Arabic-first, right to left

Built right-to-left from the start, and fully bilingual in Arabic and English.

Made for touch

Pan, pinch to zoom, and pick shapes with your fingers, on a phone, a tablet, or a desktop.

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