Arabic Font

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  intel44 · Member · May 1, 2015 at 9:30 pm

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  I’ve chosen to “Try Free Trial” of the Custom Design upgrade option solely for a better Arabic font to use than the one used by default.

  All of the pre-defined fonts in the upgrade package don’t support Arabic. Is there anything I can do to get extra Arabic fonts?

  I really need this as if I can’t get better fonts, I’d have to discard WordPress.com as an option for my blog. I really like what I’m seeing at WordPress.com, and would really like to start using it.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thatrobyn · Member · May 1, 2015 at 11:29 pm

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  Hello there!

  Unfortunately, you are limited to the default Arabic font and what you see in the Custom Design upgrade. Because I don’t read the language, and want you to have the best help possible, I am going to suggest you visit the Arabic language forum to see if anyone else with an Arabic blog has found a solution on WordPress.com.

  If there isn’t a change that suits you, you may choose to move to a self-hosted WordPress.org site, where you can add all the Arabic fonts and plugins that you wish. You are more limited here at WordPress.com by our parameters.

  If you aren’t yet familiar with WordPress.org, take a look at this list of the differences between WordPress.com-hosting and self-hosting:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  I wish I could help further with this. If you have any other questions at all, please don’t hesitate to write me another note. I would like to assist in any way possible.

  Thanks much!

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  intel44 · Member · May 2, 2015 at 12:04 am

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  Thanks. I’m actually know about WordPress.org, but have little experience with it. Seeing as I run a security initiative, my threat model lists a very destructive effect if I was hacked with a self-hosted software. So I need a “cloud-hosted” service to mitigate that threat.

  Thanks for your time. Unfortunately, I think I can’t yet settle on a blog platform choice. May the search go on :(

  Please consider using a more robust type-kit that provides versatile font families.

  Good luck and thanks for your time

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  intel44 · Member · May 2, 2015 at 12:06 am

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  …I* actually…
  …if I got* hacked…

  Sorry about that.