Andalus font family

Overview

Andalus is an Arabic display font. Its design is a modern interpretation of Kairawani Kufic. This font is suitable for headlines, titles, posters, and any graphic design project where artistic flavor is desired.

• This font has shipped with Windows since Windows 3.1 (Arabic edition) as a TrueType font.
• Version 5.92 shipped with Windows 7, support for advance OpenType layout tables to improve marks positioning and other typographic enhancements were added.
• Version 5.99 shipped with Windows 8, we added traditional phrase-ligatures and support for end-of-Ayat mark to make Andalus more user-friendly to native Arabic language users.

	Description
File name	Andlso.ttf
Styles & Weights	Andalus
Copyright	Copyright 1993 Glyph Systems, Limited Partnership. Portions © 2011 The Monotype Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Designers	Mohammad Alagha, Mamoun Sakkal
Font vendor	Glyph Systems, Monotype Corporation
Script Tags	dlng:'Arab' slng:'Arab', 'Latn'
Code pages	1252 Latin 1 1256 Arabic
Fixed pitch	False

Licensing and redistribution info

• Font redistribution FAQ for Windows
• License Microsoft fonts for enterprises, web developers, for hardware & software redistribution or server installations

Products that supply this font

Product name	Font version
Windows 11	See the Windows 11 page.
Windows 10	See the Windows 10 page.
Windows 8.1	See the Windows 8.1 page.
Windows 8	See the Windows 8 page.
Windows 7	See the Windows 7 page.
Windows Vista	5.00
Windows XP	1.01
Windows 2000	1.01

Style & weight examples

• Figure 1: Andalus is an Arabic display font based on Kairawani Kufic calligraphy.

• Figure 2: Traditional phrase-ligatures added in version 5.99