# Habibi font

> A single-weight text serif with old-style figures, mixing 15th and 16th century models with crisp modern detail.

Habibi is a serif text typeface by Magnus Gaarde that combines qualities of 15th and 16th century book faces with sharper contemporary drawing. Habibi has one Regular style with 423 glyphs across the Latin and Latin Extended subsets, and its numerals are old-style. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

## Facts

- Classification: [Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/serif)
- Designed by: Magnus Gaarde
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 423
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-08
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Habibi
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/habibi
- Tagged for: Headlines, Editorial, Elegant

## About Habibi

Habibi is a serif typeface intended for reading text that can also be enlarged for display. According to its official description it draws on text faces of the 15th and 16th centuries as well as on crisp contemporary ones. The specimen shows that mixture: thin, sharply finished serifs and hairlines beside fuller curved strokes, a modest lowercase height with long ascenders, and numerals that rise and fall like lowercase letters, with 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 dropping below the baseline. The capital Q has a long sweeping tail and the J descends. Habibi consists of one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 423 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended subsets. Magnus Gaarde designed it, the copyright notice names Sorkin Type Co, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2011 by Sorkin Type Co (www.sorkintype.com), with Reserved Font Name "Habibi".

Allowed:
- 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.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it works

- **Pull quotes and standfirsts**: Thin serifs and old-style figures give a quoted sentence a bookish tone at 20 to 40 pixels.
- **Short essays and introductions**: The face was drawn as a text serif, so a few paragraphs in the Regular read comfortably; emphasis has to come from another family.
- **Menus and programmes**: Old-style numerals sit quietly inside prices and dates instead of standing at capital height.
- **Titles for literary projects**: Enlarged, the sweeping Q tail and descending J add detail to a book or journal title.

## Things to know

- **No italic or bold**: Habibi is one Regular file. Italic emphasis would be synthesised by the browser or application.
- **Old-style figures by default**: Numerals vary in height and several descend. In tables of figures that can look uneven.
- **Latin and Latin Extended**: The subsets are latin and latin-ext; Cyrillic and Greek characters are not present.

## FAQs

### Is Habibi free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Habibi may be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and redistributed; it cannot be sold on its own, and a modified version keeps the same license and may not use the reserved name Habibi without permission.

### Who designed Habibi?

Habibi was designed by Magnus Gaarde. The copyright notice in the license names Sorkin Type Co.

### How many weights does Habibi have?

Habibi has one weight, Regular 400, with no italic.

### Can Habibi be used for body text?

Habibi was drawn as a text serif and reads well in short passages. With only one style there is no true italic or bold for emphasis, so longer documents need a companion family.

### Which languages does Habibi support?

Habibi includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as Danish, German, French, Turkish, Polish and Hungarian.

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