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Overview
Sakkal Majalla is an Arabic typeface in the Naskh style, which is the most widely used style for typesetting many languages that use the Arabic script. Sakkal Majalla is an appropriate typeface for body text in long documents; it was designed for use in magazines, newspapers, and books, so it works well in reports, booklets, brochures, and presentations.
It has compact proportions and wide counters (the spaces within letters). The Latin letters, which were specially designed for this typeface, also have a distinctive style that can be used on its own.
Type designer Mamoun Sakkal designed Sakkal Majalla in 2005 as a robust, readable computer typeface that takes advantage of OpenType features to enhance Arabic typography, and Microsoft made it one of the core Arabic typefaces in Windows.
Its Latin complement was designed by Steve Matteson, to harmonize with the style of the Arabic. Sakkal Majalla can be used to typeset Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, Kurdish, and Uighur. It has two weights and no italic style.
Sakkal Majalla stylistic sets
SS01: Short Meem Tail: Short Meem tail on baseline instead of long descender tail.
SS02: Double-Looped Medial Heh: Double-Looped medial Heh instead of the standard single V-shaped Heh.
SS03: Swash: Extending the endings or tails of letters capable of elongation, such as “Beh” and “Lam”.
SS04: Saudi Riyal symbol variant with a width that aligns with Arabic Indic numerals; default Saudi Riyal symbol aligns with Latin numeral widths. This difference is subtle, but is necessary when using tabular spacing.
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| File name | Majalla.ttf Majallab.ttf |
| Styles & Weights | Sakkal Majalla Regular Sakkal Majalla Bold |
| Designers | Arabic: Mamoun Sakkal & Latin: Steve Matteson |
| Copyright | © 2026 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Portions © 2018 Mamoun Sakkal, Sakkal Design. |
| Font vendor | SKKL |
| Script Tags | dlng: 'Arab','Thaa' slng: 'Arab','Latn','Thaa' |
| Code pages | 1252 Latin 1 1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe 1254 Turkish 1256 Arabic 1257 Windows Baltic Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) |
| Fixed pitch | False |
| Download | N/A – Exclusively included with Microsoft products and services where applicable. |
Licensing and redistribution info
* Font redistribution [FAQ](../fonts/font-faq.md) for Windows
* [License Microsoft fonts](https://www.fonts.com/content/microsoft-typography) for enterprises, web developers, for hardware & software redistribution or server installations
Products that supply this font
|Product name|Font version| |--- |--- | |[Windows 11](../fonts/Windows_11_Font_List.md)|See the Windows 11 page.| |[Windows 10](../fonts/windows_10_font_list.md)|See the Windows 10 page.| |[Windows 8.1](../fonts/windows_81_font_list.md)|See the Windows 8.1 page.| |[Windows 8](../fonts/windows_8_font_list.md)|See the Windows 8 page.| |[Windows 7](../fonts/windows_7_font_list.md)|See the Windows 7 page.|
This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.
Style & weight examples
Sakkal Majalla
