Designing Plena for Arabic, right-to-left from day one

Bolting Arabic onto a finished left-to-right product almost always looks broken: mirrored icons that don't mirror, padding stuck on the wrong side, numbers fighting the text.

We built Plena with logical CSS properties from the start — start/end instead of left/right — so the entire interface flips cleanly when the language is Arabic. Directional icons get explicitly flipped; spacing follows the reading direction automatically.

The payoff is an Arabic experience that feels native, not retrofitted. Every page is checked in RTL before it ships.