Kanz al-Marjaan

Kanz al-Marjaan is an open-source Naskh typeface for the Arabic script, built for fully vocalised text — every haraka, shadda, tanwīn, and dagger-alef is positioned with care, including across letters that join and ligate. It extends coverage to Lisān ud-Daʿwat, the Arabic-script orthography of the Dawoodi Bohra community, which adds a set of Gujarati-derived letters and calligraphic joining forms.

Kanz al-Marjaan supersedes the earlier AlFatemi display face, which shared its outlines.

Features

• Full vocalisation — harakat, shadda, tanwīn, and the dagger-alef sit cleanly on each letter, always clearing the consonant dots (a mark never falls between a letter and its nuqta).
• Per-component marks on ligatures — where letters fuse, each component still carries its own haraka at the right place, across the standard Arabic ligatures and several hundred Lisān ud-Daʿwat calligraphic forms.
• Lisān ud-Daʿwat support — Gujarati-derived letters and calligraphic joining forms, alongside the full Arabic set.
• Connected Naskh — cursive attachment and contextual joining for smooth, continuous letterforms.
• Google Fonts ready — naming, metadata, coverage, and shaping follow the GF specification.

Get the font

• Mac / Windows: open the downloaded font file and click Install.
• iPhone / iPad: tap “Install on iPhone / iPad” to download the configuration profile, then go to Settings → Profile Downloaded → Install.