Mada

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What do I do with this?

Just want to use the font? Click "Get this font on Google Fonts" to download it or add it directly to a document, design tool (like Canva or Photoshop), or your computer's font list.

Building a website? Click "Copy Font Code" to copy a short snippet, then paste it into your website's HTML (usually inside the <head> section) to use this font on your site.

Mada is a clean, geometric sans-serif with a strong Arabic design influence built into its Latin letterforms. It has a modern, balanced structure with low contrast strokes and open apertures that give it a calm, readable quality at most sizes. The letterforms are straightforward without being stiff, sitting somewhere between a humanist and geometric approach. It reads as professional and neutral without feeling generic, and its even weight distribution makes it reliable across digital and print contexts.

Mada works well as a UI font for apps and web platforms where legibility at small sizes matters and a contemporary look is needed. It suits branding for startups, tech companies, or design studios that want something clean and confident without defaulting to the most obvious choices like Inter or Roboto. It also performs well in editorial layouts for online publications or digital magazines, particularly in navigation, subheadings, and secondary text where it can complement a more expressive display typeface without competing with it.

Best suited for: Consider Mada for digital interfaces, web applications, editorial layouts, and branding contexts where contemporary legibility and geometric clarity are priorities.

Design considerations: The eight available weights provide flexibility for establishing hierarchy and emphasis across layouts without introducing stylistic variation. Its geometric foundation with humanist restraint positions it as adaptable to both minimalist and content-rich designs.

Pairing guidance: Mada's neutral, geometric structure pairs effectively with serif typefaces for editorial contrast—Playfair Display brings formal elegance to headlines while Lora offers warmth for body text—or with Space Mono to reinforce technical or code-focused contexts where monospace clarity complements Mada's contemporary precision.

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Mada at a glance

All 8 Mada styles

Mada character map

Which languages does Mada support?

Mada includes 3 character sets:

• Arabic: Arabic, Persian and Urdu
• Latin: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and other Western European languages
• Latin Extended: Central and Eastern European languages such as Polish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian and Hungarian

It does not include Cyrillic or Greek characters, so it can't set Russian, Ukrainian or Greek text.

Can I use Mada commercially?

Yes, it's free for personal and commercial use. Mada is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it in logos, websites, apps, videos, printed products and merchandise without paying or asking permission. The one thing you can't do is sell the font file on its own.

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