Arabic Fonts for Photoshop and Adobe, and How to Type Arabic Correctly

Why are Arabic letters disconnected in Photoshop?

Photoshop uses its Latin text engine by default, which neither joins Arabic letters nor writes right to left. Turn on the Middle Eastern engine once:

1. Open Preferences → Type and choose World-Ready Layout (Middle Eastern and South Asian in older versions).
2. Close the file and open a new one so the setting applies.
3. From the Paragraph panel menu, choose Middle Eastern & South Asian Every-line Composer.
4. Set the paragraph direction to right-to-left in the Paragraph panel.

In Illustrator: Preferences → Type, turn on the Middle Eastern and South Asian options, then pick the same composer from the Paragraph panel menu.

Adobe's Arabic fonts

Adobe Arabic and Adobe Naskh are Naskh fonts from Adobe, clear for text and headlines. Preview them here with your own text before you use them:

Free Arabic fonts that work in Adobe apps

These fonts are open source under the OFL license. Download them free from Google Fonts and install them, and they appear in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign:

Or design without installing anything

Tiraz has 600+ Arabic and Latin typefaces that download the first time you use them. Arabic joins and runs right to left with no setup, and kashida lands at the word's joint like a calligrapher's. Browse every font and try your text in each.

1. Start a new design

   Download Tiraz from the App Store, tap the gold + at the bottom, and choose Blank and a size, or From Photo to start with your picture. Ready sizes include post, story, square, and video, and All Sizes holds the print formats. Start at the size you'll publish in so you don't have to rearrange the design later.

   

2. Choose the font

   With the text selected, open Fonts, switch to the Modern tab and try fonts while seeing your own word in each one. Fonts with a crown are part of Tiraz Gold, and a font downloads the first time you use it. Keep to two fonts: a calligraphic one for names and a clear one for details.

   

3. Export or share the design

   Tap the gold share button at the top of the editor to open Export: a full-size PNG for free, and a print PDF, 4K, and transparent backgrounds with Gold. Tap Share to send it straight to WhatsApp, or Save to keep it in Photos. For a print shop always choose PDF; a phone image prints soft.

   

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