Markazi Text

Try Markazi Text

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Markazi Text Regular
• Medium 500Markazi Text Medium
• SemiBold 600Markazi Text SemiBold
• Bold 700Markazi Text Bold

Markazi Text 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 Markazi Text

Markazi Text is a text typeface that joins an Arabic design to a Latin serif drawn to accompany it. The Arabic, designed by Borna Izadpanah with Fiona Ross as design director, has moderate stroke contrast and follows an earlier Arabic typeface by Tim Holloway, who encouraged the work; Gerry Leonidas started the project as a collaboration between the University of Reading and Google. Florian Runge's Latin echoes the Arabic. In the specimen its letters are compact, with a tall x-height, short ascenders and descenders, sturdy bracketed serifs and an even rhythm, so it looks small for its point size. The family is one variable file with a weight axis from 400 to 700 and four named weights: Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. There is no italic. Its 1,229 glyphs cover Arabic, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

Where Markazi Text works

Arabic and Latin in one document

Both scripts were designed as counterparts, so reports, catalogues and websites that mix them keep a shared weight and rhythm.

Long articles

Moderate contrast and compact proportions were chosen for continuous reading in print and on screen.

Headlines in the heavier weights

SemiBold and Bold give titles and subheads more colour without leaving the family.

Space-saving columns

Short ascenders and descenders let lines sit close together in narrow newspaper-style columns.

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 Markazi Text

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 Markazi Text 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: "Markazi Text";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MarkaziText-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Markazi Text", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Markazi Text 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=Markazi+Text:wght@400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

Markazi Text has four upright weights only. There is no italic file or slant axis.

Nothing lighter than Regular

The weight axis starts at 400 and ends at 700.

Looks small at a given size

The compact Latin sets smaller than most text serifs, so expect to raise the font size a step or two.

FAQs

Collections with Markazi Text

• Fonts that support Arabic

  Open-license families for the Arabic script with a matching Latin: Naskh text faces, Kufi-based sans-serifs and display designs.

Similar fonts

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