Arabic calligraphy generator
Type a word. Pick a script. It is set, live, in the browser — no account, nothing to install, and your first four downloads free. That is the whole of it. Open the studio.
Step by step
- Type the word. Open the Studio and type a word, a name or a line in the text box. It is shaped as you type, each letter joined the way the script joins it.
- Pick a script. Choose a script family (Naskh, Thuluth, Diwani, Ruqʿah, Kufic, Nastaliq or Maghribi, or a modern or display face), then a style within it.
- Shape it. Stretch a join with kashida (tap the joint), switch a letter to one of its alternates, and set the ink colour and the sheet.
- Export it. Download SVG (vector outlines), PNG, PDF or DXF. The first four downloads are free; the first three carry a small stamp.
Not in the UAE?
Arabic calligraphy as a PNG or an SVG
Every design downloads as a PNG at one, two, four or eight times its size on screen. Switch on No BG first and the PNG has a transparent background, ready to lay over a photo, a slide or a video. An SVG keeps the letters as vector outlines with no font inside, so it scales to any size and opens in Illustrator, Inkscape or Canva; PDF and DXF are vector too. The first four downloads are free; the first three carry a small stamp.
What it actually does
It shapes real letterforms. Arabic letters change shape according to what sits either side of them, and joining them correctly is the hard part — the studio runs the same shaping engine a typesetter uses, so what appears is a correctly joined word rather than letters placed next to each other. You can then stretch the joins by hand (kashida), switch alternates, and move a single letter without breaking the rest.
It exports vector outlines: SVG, PDF and DXF, which means a laser cutter or a print house can use the file directly. The outline you see is the outline you get — that guarantee is the product, and it is why a preview here can be sent to a workshop without a second proof.
How that guarantee is proved, not just stated
"What you see is what you get" is the easiest sentence in software to write
and the hardest to keep, because every export path is a second implementation of
the renderer and second implementations drift. So it is tested on every
commit, not asserted: fourteen checks that take a design off the
stage and open the exported file to compare them — the SVG's outlines against
the stage's own path data, the PDF page against the artboard in points, the DXF
against the same shape at the same size, and the ones that usually rot quietly:
that an export carries outlines and never an embedded font program, that
outline mode exports a real stroke rather than a screen-only effect, that gold
foil is a real SVG pattern, that gradients are real defs, that
double-stroke is inset geometry rather than a stroked copy, and that a fixed
artboard exports a real TrimBox, BleedBox and crop marks. The EPS is opened by
an actual PostScript interpreter, because "it looks fine in a preview" is not
the same as "a print house can open it".
That is the whole of the proof: the file a workshop receives is the picture you approved. What the studio still cannot do is kept on its own page, current on purpose.
What it does not do, and will not pretend to
A generator sets letterforms that already exist. It does not invent a calligrapher's hand. A khattat composing a Thuluth panel makes hundreds of decisions a font cannot hold — where a letter climbs to clear the one beneath, which of six alternates the rhythm of that particular line wants, when to break a rule. If you want that, you want a person, and we have people.
Nor is it an AI that draws calligraphy. Nothing here generates a letterform from a prompt; everything is a real outline from a real typeface, moved by you. The limits page lists what the studio still cannot do, kept current on purpose.
The scripts
The classical families, each good at something and bad at something else — a page for each says both. Diwani · Thuluth · Naskh · Kufic · Ruqʿah · Farsi Nastaliq.
Quick answers
Is the Arabic calligraphy generator free online?
Yes. Designing is free in the browser with no account, every open script included, and your first four downloads are free too (the first three carry a small stamp, the fourth is clean). After that, a 7-day pass is AED 25.
Can I choose the font?
You choose the script family (Naskh, Thuluth, Diwani, Ruqʿah, Kufic, Nastaliq or Maghribi, or a modern or display face) and, within it, the typeface. The fonts are used inside the studio; they are not offered as a download, because several are licensed.
Can it write in Diwani?
Yes. Diwani is one of the classical script families, with the knotted, ceremonial line most people want for a name. Type the word and pick Diwani.
Can I make a logo with it?
You can compose a wordmark and export it as SVG or PDF, which a designer or print shop can open. The studio sets real letterforms; it does not invent a calligrapher’s hand, so for a fully bespoke mark a calligrapher is the right person.
Can I download Arabic calligraphy as a PNG with a transparent background?
Yes. In Export, switch on No BG, then press PNG (one to eight times the size on screen): the ink comes out on a transparent background.
Can I get Arabic calligraphy as an SVG?
Yes. The SVG keeps the letters as vector outlines with no font inside, so it scales to any size and opens in Illustrator, Inkscape or Canva. PDF and DXF are vector too.
Can I use it for a tattoo design?
You can export the word as a clean SVG or PNG to take to your tattoo artist. Check the spelling with a native reader first: Arabic letters change shape by position, and a mistake is permanent. We do not print or apply tattoos.
Then, if you want it on a wall
The same design can be made: a calligraphy paint printed to order in the UAE from AED 60, or cut in acrylic as a tray or a box. How that works · the lines we already write · your name.