Provenance

Where this artwork comes from

Every image this site produces is cut from the King Fahd Glorious Qur'an Printing Complex's Muṣḥaf al-Madīnah, V4 (1441H), in the riwāyah of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim — the edition printed in Madinah and distributed worldwide. It is the printed plate artwork, not a typeface imitating it.

The licence

The Complex publishes a complete free digital copy of the muṣḥaf — Illustrator sources, PDF, high-resolution images and a TrueType font — and states its terms plainly. Based on the approval of the Minister of Islamic Affairs, Daʿwah and Guidance, General Supervisor of the Complex, these formats "can be used for free in all personal and individual businesses, in works of governmental departments & agencies, in the publications of both private and national institutions; it also allows Qur'an printing, digital publishing, media use, and use in websites, software, and other similar intermediates."

The single reserved right is physical: printing muṣḥafs inside the Kingdom for commercial sale, or importing them for that purpose, is restricted to the Complex by Royal Decree No. 136/8 (1/2/1406 AH) and Royal Decree No. 9/B/46356 (28/9/1424 AH). Nothing on this site touches that — every use here is digital. Source: qurancomplex.gov.sa.

The decomposition, the labels and the indexes that make an individual ayah addressable are this project's own work, released CC BY 4.0 with attribution waived for use inside a product. In short: make what you want with these images.

How a printed page becomes an ayah

The 604 pages were decomposed so that every word is its own group and every diacritical mark its own shape — 77,432 words and 436,398 marks, each carrying a stable key of the form surah:ayah:word. Asking for an ayah means collecting exactly those shapes and placing them on a new canvas.

Because the shapes are only ever moved, never scaled or restyled, the result is the same ink the Complex prints. That is also why there are two layouts and no more: keeping the printed line breaks, or repacking the same words at the same size into a different shape. Anything that stretched a letter to fill a box would no longer be the muṣḥaf.

Adab

These are images of the Qur'an. They carry no translation and no commentary, and the text is never altered, abbreviated or partially rendered — a range is either drawn in full or refused. If you are placing an ayah in a design, please give it the room and the care it is due.

Questions about the decomposition or the licence — the API docs describe what the service exposes.