Specimen
Handgloves
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!
8 weights · variable · Handwriting
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Playpen Sans Arabic
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
0.698
stroke weight
18% of cap height
0.177
contrast
Low
0.045
letter width
Normal
1.017
Web embed
Use Playpen Sans Arabic on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Playpen+Sans+Arabic:wght@100;200;300;400&display=swap');
/* Playpen Sans Arabic */
body {
font-family: 'Playpen Sans Arabic', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Playpen Sans Arabic
- Category
- Handwriting
- Designers
- TypeTogether, Azza Alameddine, Laura Meseguer
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 12, 2025
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- arabic, emoji, latin, latin-ext, math
About the Playpen Sans Arabic font
Playpen Sans Arabic is a handwriting typeface designed by TypeTogether and Azza Alameddine and Laura Meseguer, first released to Google Fonts on May 2025. It ships with 8 weights · variable 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 70% of the cap height, normal letter forms and low stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Playpen Sans Arabic against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Playpen Sans Arabic 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.