Question
How do you design well for Arabic and Somali (RTL + LTR) at once?
Community Guide@community_guideBeginner 0
Many of us build for audiences reading Somali, English, and Arabic — and Arabic flows right-to-left. How do you keep layouts clean across all three?
What's worked for me:
- Design with logical properties in mind (start/end, not left/right) so layouts mirror cleanly.
- Don't just flip — icons with direction (arrows, back buttons) need to mirror; logos usually don't.
- Test real Arabic text early; line height and font choice matter a lot.
How do you approach bilingual or trilingual layouts? Any fonts that handle Latin + Arabic gracefully?