Shababa is a hand-drawn 3-D font. The linework is still kept fairly relaxed, mostly smooth with some distressed edges. There is lots of texturing from the pen strokes which becomes more evident at larger point sizes. This looseness enhances the smooth technicality of the properly extruded forms.

There is a sprinkling of dingbats scattered around the alternates, just there to make this font extra fun and useful.

Shababa is extended, containing West European diacritics & ligatures, making it suitable for multilingual environments & publications.