Sunday, October 15, 2017

How do the Dubai fonts look like?

A recent Office 365 message referred to a new font in MS Excel called Dubai. The initial design of Dubai font family is supposed to consist of 4 styles:

Dubai Light,
Dubai (regular),
Dubai Medium and
Dubai Bold,
supporting both western European languages as well as the major languages that use the Arabic script.

Things to know about the Dubai font family:
Avoid using italics with any of the Dubai fonts, as we've not yet included true italic styles of the fonts.

The Dubai (regular) style is suited for body text and is “linked” to the Dubai Bold font. To apply the bold effect just select your text and choose bold from the Font group on the ribbon.

Because the Dubai fonts are designed for setting both Arabic and western European languages together, the space between lines is quite generous. You can tighten up this spacing by selecting Line Spacing Options from the Paragraph ribbon menu.

The font automatically installs in Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint. If you'd like to have the font available to you in other programs on Windows like Microsoft Project, or third-party programs you'll need to go to download the Dubai Font Pack from the Microsoft Download Center.

In MS Excel I could find only the following:


This is in MS Word. Dubai Medium is missing and it is the same as Calibri.


In MS Word there were only two.

More here:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Using-the-Dubai-Font-in-Microsoft-Office-C862DF16-AE0D-46D9-B117-AA3F41F9706E

Download font from here:

https://www.dubaifont.com/download (Opentype TTF, OpenType CFF, TTF, EOT, WOFF and WOFF2)

History behind the font:
https://www.dubaifont.com/story

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