Beshkasteh Arabic Font

Here it is one of the most complex and yet simplest Arabic fonts! This new calligraphy-typography font is an mixture of Kufic Bannai and Nataliq Shekasteh! Bannai script, as you know, has a geometric and horizontal-vertical structure with a 90-degree angle. Now, in this font, we take this form to a state similar to Nastaliq and Tahriri script, and by combining the two, we arrive at a typeface that is Bannai but moves on the baseline, creating an experience that has never been seen in Arabic fonts before.

And finally, here’s another subtle tip and feature of this font. You may not want the font to work automatically and moves a particular letter up in some places in your writing for whatever reason. That’s fine! You can easily move the entire word or each letter down one step and put it back on the baseline pretty easily just by typing a Kashida (Shift + J or Shift + –)


Shahab Siavash, the designer has done more than 47 fonts and got featured on Behance, Microsoft, McGill University research website, Hackernoon, Fontself, FontsInUse,... Astaneh and Hezareh text and headline fonts which is one of his latest designs, already got professional typographers, lay-out and book designers' attention as well as some of the most recognizable publications in Arabic/Persian communities.