Jomhuria

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Jomhuria Regular

About Jomhuria

Jomhuria is a heavy display typeface that pairs a Persian/Arabic design with a matching Latin. The name means 'republic'. The official notes trace the idea to an older Iranian stencil design that covered only Persian letters, without marks or Latin; Kourosh Beigpour reinterpreted that spirit as a new Arabic typeface, and the font files credit Eben Sorkin with the Latin, Lasse Fister with engineering and Khaled Hosny with the underlying technical work. The Latin in the specimen is black and compact, with small wedge serifs, tight spacing and a diamond-shaped dot on i and j. It is scaled to sit beside the Arabic. The notes also stress that the dots of the Arabic letters keep their calligraphic positions. Although the single style is labelled Regular 400, it is drawn very dark. The font has 1,961 glyphs.

Where Jomhuria works

Bilingual headlines

Arabic-script and Latin letters share one weight and scale, so a Persian or Arabic title and its Latin translation match.

Newspaper and magazine fronts

The dark, compact letters fit a long headline into a narrow column at large size.

Posters and banners

The design was made for big sizes, where the wedge serifs and diamond dots are visible.

Logotypes in two scripts

A name set in both the Arabic and Latin designs keeps the same density in each version.

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
• 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

Fonts that pair with Jomhuria

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 Jomhuria 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: "Jomhuria";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Jomhuria-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Jomhuria 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=Jomhuria&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Regular in name, heavy in fact

The only style is Regular 400, but its strokes are as dark as a black weight. No lighter cut exists.

Made for large sizes

The official notes describe Jomhuria as a design for big sizes; the tight counters close up in small text.

Latin is sized to the Arabic

The Latin letters are scaled to work with the Arabic, so they look small next to other fonts at the same point size.

FAQs

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