Arabic Wall Art Generator
Make centered Arabic calligraphy-style prints for posters, gifts, and home decor drafts.
For best results, paste Arabic text for names or tattoos. Typing English will NOT translate it.
Suggested Short Phrases (Click to Fill)
Print Guidance
Canvas sizes
Common sizes: 8×10", 11×14", 16×20", 24×36". Use the largest font size that fills the space.
Margins
Leave at least 1" margin on all sides. More breathing room = more elegant appearance.
Contrast
Black on white or white on dark works best. Avoid low-contrast color combinations.
Recommended Styles for Wall Art
Recommended Fonts for Wall Art
Commercial Use Note: Licensing varies by font. Check each font's license before commercial use. Many fonts here are open-source (OFL), but always verify for your specific project on the Fonts page.
Your privacy:: All designs are generated in your browser. We do not store your text.
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Planning an Arabic Wall Piece
Design for the wall, not for the screen
Wall art is the one application where the calligraphic display scripts are unambiguously the right choice. Thuluth-flavoured and Diwani-flavoured settings need scale and space to show what they do, and a wall is the only place most people can give them both. The overlapping verticals and flowing baselines that make these scripts difficult in a logo are exactly what make them rewarding at size.
The corresponding constraint is length. Keep the phrase short — two to five words is the range where these scripts stay legible and compositional. Beyond that, the density that makes them beautiful becomes the density that makes them impenetrable, and the piece stops being read at all.
Resolution, and why exports get rejected
The most common practical failure is exporting at screen resolution and discovering it at the print shop. A file that looks sharp on a monitor can be far below what a large print needs, and enlarging it afterwards recovers nothing. Always export at the largest size this tool offers, regardless of how small the preview looks — you can discard resolution later, you cannot add it.
Then check the composition at final proportions rather than at preview proportions. Calligraphic scripts extend well above and below the baseline, and an export tuned for a compact setting can clip the extremes of a Thuluth-flavoured piece. Look at the whole artwork with its margins before sending it anywhere.
Whitespace is part of the design
In traditional Arabic calligraphic compositions, the space around and between the letterforms carries as much weight as the strokes. A piece crowded to the edges of its frame reads as cramped no matter how well the letters are set. Give the composition generous margins and resist the urge to fill them.
This affects framing decisions too. A mount that adds visual breathing room usually improves a calligraphic piece more than a larger print would. If you are choosing between a bigger print and a better mount, the mount is often the better spend.
Meaning, placement, and a caution
Arabic wall art frequently features religious text, and that carries considerations beyond design. Quranic verses in particular are treated by many with specific expectations about placement and handling — not displayed in bathrooms or on floors, for instance. If you are commissioning or gifting a piece with religious content, it is worth understanding those expectations rather than discovering them afterwards.
And as everywhere on this site: confirm the wording before printing. A framed piece is not as permanent as a tattoo, but it is expensive, it is displayed prominently, and if it is a gift it will be seen by people who read Arabic. Export the image, send it to a native speaker, and ask them to read it back to you.
Sizing for a real wall
The mistake almost everyone makes is designing at screen scale and printing at wall scale. Decide the finished dimensions before you set the text, then work backwards: a piece intended to be read from across a room needs the letter height to be roughly one centimetre for every metre of viewing distance, which for a typical living room means letters two to three centimetres tall and a piece considerably larger than people expect. Measure the wall and mark the outline in low-tack tape before ordering anything.
Format follows the text, not the other way around. A name dense in tall letters produces a vertical silhouette and suits a portrait format; a phrase with long sweeping finals wants width and clearance underneath. Set your text first, look at the shape it actually makes, and choose the frame proportions to fit it. Forcing a naturally tall composition into a wide banner leaves you shrinking the type until it no longer reads at the distance you designed for.
Print, vinyl, and metal behave differently
A transparent PNG suits all three, but each medium eats detail at a different rate. Giclée or inkjet printing on paper reproduces fine strokes and dots faithfully, so a delicate Thuluth or Diwani setting survives. Cut vinyl removes every counter smaller than the blade can turn and cannot render a detached dot without it becoming a separate sticker — for vinyl, pick a geometric setting with open counters and expect to lose the finest details.
Laser-cut or waterjet metal is the most restrictive: anything not physically connected to the rest of the piece falls out, so disconnected letters and free-floating dots need a deliberate bridge or a different script entirely. If metal is the destination, design in Kufi from the start rather than adapting a cursive setting afterwards, and send the fabricator your exported file early enough that they can tell you what will not survive.