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Kufam

An Arabic and Latin typeface for signage and wayfinding, rooted in early Kufi inscriptions, in six weights with italics.

Sans Serif 12 styles · variable by Original Type, Wael Morcos, Artur Schmal OFL

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Kufam is a bilingual Arabic and Latin sans serif intended for information design such as signage and wayfinding. Wael Morcos designed the Arabic and Artur Schmal the Latin. Kufam is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 900, six weights with italics, 2,271 glyphs, and is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

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

أبجد هوز حطي كلمن سعفص قرشت ثخذ ضظغ

Kufam in Arabic script: the traditional abjad letter order, set in the regular weight.
Designers
Original Type, Wael Morcos, Artur Schmal
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
12 6 weights, with italics
Variable font
Yes Weight 400–900
Glyphs
2,271
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.301; ttfautohint (v1.8.3)
Used for
HeadlinesBrandingBoldSignage

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

Try Kufam

Sample text

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

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

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Kufam Regular Italic
  • Medium 500Kufam Medium Medium Italic
  • SemiBold 600Kufam SemiBold SemiBold Italic
  • Bold 700Kufam Bold Bold Italic
  • ExtraBold 800Kufam ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
  • Black 900Kufam Black Black Italic

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

About Kufam

Kufam is a sans serif family that pairs Arabic and Latin for information design. Its Arabic, by Wael Morcos, looks back to Kufi inscriptions of the seventh century; the dark, condensed shapes of that script also informed the Latin lowercase by Artur Schmal, whose capitals come from the sign and shop lettering seen in Amsterdam in the early twentieth century. In the specimen the Latin has squared curves, a capital A with a rounded top and a leaning left stroke, and V and W drawn with one curved side. Kufam is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 900: six weights from Regular to Black, each with an italic, 12 styles. The fonts hold 2,271 glyphs for Arabic, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Kufam works

Bilingual signage and wayfinding
Kufam was conceived for information design, with Arabic and Latin drawn to stand together on the same sign.
Arabic and English branding
One family in six weights covers a name, a tagline and small print in both scripts.
Transit and venue information
Weights from Regular to Black separate destinations, directions and secondary notes.
Posters and titles
ExtraBold and Black bring out the squared curves and the round-topped A at large sizes.
Interfaces in two scripts
Arabic, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets sit in the same files, so a product needs one typeface for several locales.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 2,271 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 2019 The Kufam Project Authors (https://github.com/originaltype/kufam)

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 Kufam

Alegreya SC Serif

Kufam is sans serif and Alegreya SC is serif (5 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Bevan Slab Serif

Kufam is sans serif and Bevan is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Chivo Mono Monospace

Chivo Mono is a monospace family (9 weights) for code and figures next to Kufam 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 Kufam 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: "Kufam";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Kufam-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Kufam";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Kufam-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Nothing lighter than Regular
The weight axis runs from 400 to 900. There are no Light or Thin styles.
Two variable files
The package contains an upright and an italic variable font, each with the full weight range.
Distinctive Latin capitals
The round-topped A and the asymmetric V and W follow Amsterdam sign lettering and differ from conventional sans capitals.

FAQs

Is Kufam free for commercial use?

Yes. Kufam is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which permits personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The fonts cannot be sold on their own, and modified versions remain under the same license.

Who designed Kufam?

Wael Morcos designed the Arabic of Kufam and Artur Schmal its Latin. The name table gives Original Type as the manufacturer.

How many weights does Kufam have?

Kufam has six weights, Regular 400 to Black 900, each with an italic, which makes 12 styles.

Is Kufam a variable font?

Yes. Kufam is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 900, in separate upright and italic files.

Does Kufam support Arabic?

Yes. Kufam is a bilingual design whose Arabic letters are inspired by seventh-century Kufi inscriptions; the Arabic script is part of its 2,271 glyphs.

Which Latin-script languages does Kufam support?

Kufam includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese.

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