Lalezar

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Lalezar Regular

About Lalezar

Lalezar is a display typeface that sets Arabic-script and Latin text in one heavy style. The official notes tie it to Film-Farsi, a genre of popular Iranian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s whose posters used bold, dynamic lettering; Lalezar revives the qualities of that lettering as an Arabic display face with a Latin companion. Although the source was Persian, the notes state the aim of serving most languages written in the Arabic script. In the specimen the Latin is a very dark sans with small counters and stroke ends cut at an angle, visible on a, e, r and t. The family is one style, registered as Regular 400 but black in appearance, and it is not variable. Its 1,127 glyphs span the Arabic, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets. Borna Izadpanah, a London-based type designer, leads the project.

Where Lalezar works

Film and event posters

The heavy forms come from cinema poster lettering and hold a title at large sizes in Arabic script or Latin.

Bilingual headlines

Arabic and Latin glyphs share one weight, so a headline and its translation carry equal emphasis.

Covers and thumbnails

Small counters and dark strokes keep two or three words legible over a busy image.

Shop signs and stickers

Angled stroke ends give short names a lively, hand-lettered edge.

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

Fonts that pair with Lalezar

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

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

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

Things to know

One heavy style

The file is named Regular 400 but is drawn very bold. No lighter or italic style exists.

Not for paragraphs

The official notes define Lalezar as a display typeface for popular culture; the tight counters close up at small sizes.

Arabic script included

The Arabic subset sits alongside Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese in the same file.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All display fonts