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Fustat

An Arabic and Latin variable sans rooted in manuscript Kufi, in seven weights from ExtraLight to ExtraBold.

Sans Serif 7 styles · variable by Mohamed Gaber, Laura Garcia Mut, Khaled Hosny OFL

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Fustat is an Arabic and Latin sans serif: Mohamed Gaber designed the Arabic after manuscript Kufi, Laura Garcia Mut drew the matching Latin, and Khaled Hosny engineered the fonts. Fustat is a variable font with seven weights from 200 to 800 and 1,002 glyphs. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 for bilingual titles, text and branding.

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

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Fustat in Arabic script: the traditional abjad letter order, set in the regular weight.
Designers
Mohamed Gaber, Laura Garcia Mut, Khaled Hosny
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
7 7 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 200–800
Glyphs
1,002
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 1.010
Used for
HeadlinesBody textInterfacesBranding

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

Try Fustat

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • ExtraLight 200Fustat ExtraLight
  • Light 300Fustat Light
  • Regular 400Fustat Regular
  • Medium 500Fustat Medium
  • SemiBold 600Fustat SemiBold
  • Bold 700Fustat Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Fustat ExtraBold

Fustat 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 Fustat

Fustat is a low-contrast sans serif family for the Arabic and Latin scripts. Mohamed Gaber designed the Arabic and Khaled Hosny engineered it; the letterforms take the Kufi hand of old manuscripts as their starting point and redraw it for present-day use. Laura Garcia Mut designed the Latin to sit beside it; in the specimen it has a tall lowercase, a double-storey a, a single-storey g and strokes of nearly even thickness. Fustat is a variable font with one axis, weight, running from ExtraLight 200 to ExtraBold 800 in seven named steps, without italics. According to the official notes, the 1,002 glyphs include tabular and proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts and stylistic sets with alternate forms. The name table lists Kief Type Foundry, Alif Type Foundry and Hard Type Foundry, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Fustat works

Arabic and English websites
Both scripts were designed as one family, so a bilingual page keeps the same stroke weight and texture in each language.
Arabic headlines
The Kufi-derived Arabic gives titles a geometric, manuscript-rooted character, and ExtraBold 800 adds weight for large sizes.
Brand identities for Arabic-speaking markets
Seven weights from 200 to 800 cover a wordmark, subheads and small print within a single family.
Tables and price lists
Tabular figures are listed among the OpenType features, which keeps columns of numbers aligned.
Interface text
The tall Latin lowercase and even stroke keep short labels readable at small sizes.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 1,002 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

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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2024 The Fustat Project Authors (https://github.com/Kief-Type-Foundry/Fustat)

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 Fustat

Cinzel Serif

Fustat is sans serif and Cinzel is serif (6 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Josefin Slab Slab Serif

Fustat is sans serif and Josefin Slab is slab serif (7 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Inconsolata Monospace

Inconsolata is a monospace family (8 weights) for code and figures next to Fustat as the text face.

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 Fustat 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: "Fustat";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Fustat-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italic
Fustat has seven upright weights and no italic or slanted style.
One variable file
The download is a single variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 800 that holds both scripts.
Latin coverage
The Latin part includes Latin Extended, with the letters for languages such as Turkish, Polish and Czech. Vietnamese, Cyrillic and Greek are not included.
The specimen shows Latin only
The sample image on this page is set in Latin letters; the Arabic letterforms are in the same file.

FAQs

Is Fustat free for commercial use?

Yes. Fustat is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Fustat?

Fustat's Arabic was designed by Mohamed Gaber and its Latin by Laura Garcia Mut, with font engineering by Khaled Hosny.

How many weights does Fustat have?

Fustat has seven weights, from ExtraLight 200 to ExtraBold 800. There is no italic.

Is Fustat a variable font?

Yes. Fustat is a variable font with one axis, weight, which runs from 200 to 800.

Does Fustat support Arabic?

Yes. Fustat is an Arabic-first family with an Arabic subset, and its official notes describe coverage of many languages written in the Arabic script. Latin and Latin Extended are also included.

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