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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
2 weights · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Aref Ruqaa
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.688
stroke weight
12% of cap height
0.124
contrast
Medium
0.547
letter width
Normal
0.963
Web embed
Use Aref Ruqaa on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Aref+Ruqaa:wght@400;700&display=swap');
/* Aref Ruqaa */
body {
font-family: 'Aref Ruqaa', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Aref Ruqaa
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Abdullah Aref, Khaled Hosny, Hermann Zapf
- Added to Google Fonts
- June 20, 2016
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- arabic, latin, latin-ext
About the Aref Ruqaa font
Aref Ruqaa is a serif typeface designed by Abdullah Aref and Khaled Hosny and Hermann Zapf, first released to Google Fonts on June 2016. It ships with 2 weights and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 69% of the cap height, normal letter forms and medium stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Aref Ruqaa against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Aref Ruqaa is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.