Mirza

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Mirza Regular
• Medium 500Mirza Medium
• SemiBold 600Mirza SemiBold
• Bold 700Mirza Bold

About Mirza

Mirza is a text typeface for the Arabic script, built on Naskh and intended for body copy. The official description says the design tries to respect Arabic and Persian aesthetic rules, using ligatures to do so, and that a Latin was drawn in harmony with the Arabic for multilingual work. In the specimen that Latin is a low-contrast face whose stems flare slightly towards their ends instead of carrying full serifs; the dot on i and j is a diamond, echoing the pen-cut dots of Arabic writing, and the y and g end in flat, calligraphic tails. There are four static weights: Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. No italic is included. The font holds 1,143 glyphs. The font files credit Kourosh Beigpour for the Arabic, Eduardo Tunni for the Latin and Lasse Fister for engineering; KB Studio leads the project.

Where Mirza works

Arabic and Persian body text

A Naskh-based design with ligatures is the conventional choice for continuous reading in the Arabic script.

Bilingual publications

The Latin was drawn to harmonise with the Arabic, so paragraphs in each script share weight and colour.

Headings and emphasis

Four weights from Regular 400 to Bold 700 give subheads and strong text without leaving the family.

Websites with Arabic and Latin content

One family with Arabic, Latin and Latin Extended sets covers navigation and articles in two scripts.

Reports and academic papers

Medium and SemiBold offer intermediate steps for captions, table heads and footnote markers.

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

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 Mirza

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 Mirza 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: "Mirza";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mirza-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mirza";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mirza-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mirza";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mirza-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mirza";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mirza-SemiBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 600;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Mirza", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Mirza 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=Mirza:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

Mirza has four upright weights. Italic is not part of the family.

Static files

Each weight is a separate TTF; Mirza is not a variable font.

Latin is a companion

The Latin was designed to match the Arabic, and its flared, diamond-dotted letters differ from a neutral book face.

FAQs

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