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Arabic first: why Onyx was built in Arabic before English

Full right-to-left layouts, a default language per workspace, Eastern or Western numerals, and polished Arabic reports — in Onyx, Arabic is the original, not a translation.

Arabic first: why Onyx was built in Arabic before English

Most agency tools are built in English and then "Arabized": half-mirrored menus, numbers jumping left and right, and reports you'd be embarrassed to show a client. Onyx took the opposite road — designed in Arabic first, with English as a complete second language.

Direction is more than alignment

Every screen in Onyx is built to work right-to-left: tables, charts, forms and notifications. Mixed text — Latin account handles inside an Arabic sentence — renders in its correct direction without breaking.

Each workspace has its own language and numerals

Every agency picks its default language, and every user can switch theirs at any time. Even the numeral system is a choice: Eastern (٥٦٧) or Western (567) digits per workspace — because your clients have different conventions.

And reports that do Arabic justice

An Arabic report in Onyx is not a machine translation of an English template: its headings, tables and charts are designed from the right, in elegant Arabic type, so your client receives a report worthy of your agency's brand.