Amiri

Try Amiri

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Amiri Regular Italic
• Bold 700Amiri Bold Bold Italic

About Amiri

Amiri is an Arabic typeface in the Naskh style, made for setting books and continuous prose. The official description calls it a revival of the typeface developed in the early twentieth century at the Bulaq Press in Cairo, also known as the Amiria Press, from which the name comes. The fonts are unusually large, with 6,624 glyphs across Arabic and Latin. The Latin shown in the specimen is an oldstyle serif with moderate contrast, bracketed serifs and widely spaced lining figures. Four styles are provided as static files: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. Subsets cover Arabic, Latin and Latin Extended. Khaled Hosny and Sebastian Kosch are credited as designers, the name table lists Alif Type as manufacturer, and the copyright notice spans 2010 to 2022. Amiri was added to Google Fonts in 2012 and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Amiri works

Arabic books

Amiri revives a Naskh printing type and was made for typesetting books, the setting its proportions are tuned to.

Academic and religious texts

A set of 6,624 glyphs gives room for the many letter combinations and marks that fully vocalised Arabic requires.

Arabic text with Latin citations

An oldstyle Latin serif is built in, so names, references and page numbers in Latin script match the Arabic.

Long articles in Arabic

Regular and Bold with italics cover running text, headings and emphasis in a magazine-style layout.

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
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

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. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Amiri

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 Amiri 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.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Amiri";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Amiri-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Amiri";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Amiri-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Amiri";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Amiri-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Amiri";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Amiri-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Amiri", serif;
}

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

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Amiri:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Four static styles

Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic come as separate TTF files; Amiri is not variable.

Large files

With 6,624 glyphs each, the fonts are much heavier than a Latin-only family, which matters for web loading.

Latin coverage has gaps

Romanian and Vietnamese are not among the languages whose Latin letters are complete.

FAQs

Collections with Amiri

• Fonts that support Arabic

  Open-license families for the Arabic script with a matching Latin: Naskh text faces, Kufi-based sans-serifs and display designs.

Similar fonts

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