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Alexandria

An Arabic and Latin sans in nine variable weights, designed as the Arabic companion to Montserrat.

Sans Serif 9 styles · variable by Mohamed Gaber, Julieta Ulanovsky OFL

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Alexandria is a sans serif family for Arabic and Latin, credited to Mohamed Gaber and Julieta Ulanovsky and made as the Arabic companion of Montserrat. Alexandria is a variable font with nine weights from Thin 100 to Black 900 and no italics. Alexandria has 1,864 glyphs and is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Alexandria font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.

أبجد هوز حطي كلمن سعفص قرشت ثخذ ضظغ

Alexandria in Arabic script: the traditional abjad letter order, set in the regular weight.
Designers
Mohamed Gaber, Julieta Ulanovsky
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
9 9 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–900
Glyphs
1,864
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 5.100
Used for
HeadlinesBody textInterfacesBrandingGeometric

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Alexandria; the download contains the complete files.

Alexandria font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Alexandria specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Alexandria Thin
  • ExtraLight 200Alexandria ExtraLight
  • Light 300Alexandria Light
  • Regular 400Alexandria Regular
  • Medium 500Alexandria Medium
  • SemiBold 600Alexandria SemiBold
  • Bold 700Alexandria Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Alexandria ExtraBold
  • Black 900Alexandria Black

Alexandria is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Alexandria

Alexandria is a sans serif family that sets Arabic and Latin text in one design. It was made as the Arabic companion to Montserrat, the Latin typeface by Julieta Ulanovsky, and the Latin letters shown in the specimen follow that model: wide, geometric capitals, a large lowercase and strokes of nearly even thickness. The family is variable on a weight axis from 100 to 900, with nine named weights from Thin to Black. The official description suggests the light weights for longer text and the heavy ones for short headlines. There are no italic styles. The single font file holds 1,864 glyphs and covers the Arabic, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets. Mohamed Gaber is named as designer in the font, with Kief Type Foundry as manufacturer; Julieta Ulanovsky, the designer of Montserrat, is credited alongside him. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Alexandria works

Bilingual Arabic and English interfaces
Arabic and Latin share one file and the same weight axis, so labels in both scripts match in colour at every weight.
Arabic editions of Montserrat-based brands
Alexandria was drawn to accompany Montserrat, giving a brand that already uses Montserrat a matching Arabic voice.
Arabic headlines
The official description points to the heavy weights, up to Black 900, for short titles.
Longer Arabic text
Thin to Light are recommended by the same source for long passages, and the variable axis allows values in between.
Signage and wayfinding in two scripts
Wide Latin capitals and even strokes hold together with the Arabic on signs that carry both languages.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 1,864 glyphs.

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic
  • Catalan
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian
  • Vietnamese

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Arabic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: arabic, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2022 The Alexandria Project Authors (https://github.com/Gue3bara/Alexandria)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Alexandria

Montserrat Sans Serif

Alexandria was designed as the Arabic companion of Montserrat, so Montserrat can carry Latin-only layouts beside Alexandria's Arabic.

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Alexandria on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Alexandria";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Alexandria-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Alexandria", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Alexandria with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italics
Alexandria has nine upright weights and no italic or slanted style.
One variable file
The whole family is a single variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900.
No Cyrillic or Greek
Subsets are Arabic, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Is Alexandria free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Alexandria may be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and redistributed, but the font files cannot be sold on their own and a modified version must keep the same license.

Who designed Alexandria?

Alexandria is credited to Mohamed Gaber and Julieta Ulanovsky. The font's name table names Mohamed Gaber as designer and Kief Type Foundry as manufacturer.

Does Alexandria support Arabic?

Yes. Alexandria is an Arabic and Latin typeface: it includes the Arabic subset together with Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

How is Alexandria related to Montserrat?

Alexandria was made as the Arabic companion of Montserrat, the Latin typeface designed by Julieta Ulanovsky.

How many weights does Alexandria have?

Alexandria has nine weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900, on a variable weight axis. It has no italics.

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