I wanted to design a set of European digits for my font Astrolabe (https://aliftype.com/astrolabe/english).

I don’t usually do that, but I thought digits would be easy. I went for slab serif and old-style as it felt like a good fit. I tried to get some “inspirations” but I think I ended up basically copying @tiro_j@typo.social’s Slabo (and messed it up in the process). I added both proportional and tabular sets. I added also numerators and denominators.

The result looks OK, but I can’t do Latin design even if my life depended on it.

Here are some samples next to Arabic text, and comparison with existing Arabic digits.