Reem Kufi

Try Reem Kufi

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Reem Kufi Regular
• Medium 500Reem Kufi Medium
• SemiBold 600Reem Kufi SemiBold
• Bold 700Reem Kufi Bold

Reem Kufi 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 Reem Kufi

Reem Kufi is a Kufic typeface for the Arabic script with a geometric sans serif Latin alongside it. According to the official description, the Arabic starts from early Kufic manuscript models, adapts them to the grid of Fatimid Kufic and owes much to the Kufic designs of the calligrapher Mohammed Abdul Qadir. Khaled Hosny drew the Arabic and joined it to a Latin component by Santiago Orozco. In the specimen the Latin has a sharp-topped A, round O and Q, a single-storey a and tall ascenders over a modest x-height. The family is one variable file with a weight axis from 400 to 700 and four named weights, without an italic. It holds 815 glyphs across Arabic, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets. The description recommends it for display settings such as titles and decoration.

Where Reem Kufi works

Arabic titles and headings

The Kufic Arabic is described by its makers as a display design, which places it in book titles, section headings and banners.

Bilingual Arabic and Latin identities

Both scripts sit in one file and share the 400 to 700 weight axis, so an Arabic name and its Latin transliteration match in weight.

Decorative panels and covers

The old Kufic manner gives a historical tone to covers, certificates and ornamental lines of text.

Latin headlines with a geometric cut

The pointed A, round O and single-storey a set short Latin headlines in SemiBold or Bold.

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 Reem Kufi

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

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

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

Things to know

Weights stop at Bold

The weight axis covers 400 to 700 only. There is no light weight and no italic.

One variable file

The package holds a single variable font. Static files for the four named weights are available from the official source.

A reserved name in the license notice

The copyright notice lists Josefin Sans as a Reserved Font Name, so a modified version may not carry that name without permission.

FAQs

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