Amiri
A Naskh revival of the type Bulaq Press cut in Cairo at the end of the nineteenth century, and the most carefully made Arabic book face available under an open licence. Its 6,700 glyphs are what a proper Naskh costs: the script joins in ways a Latin never has to, and every one of those joins is a drawn form rather than a substitution. The Latin companion is a quiet old style that stays out of its way. This is a text face for setting pages, not a display face.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
- Arabic
Style
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Khaled Hosny, Sebastian Kosch
- Released
- 2010
- Category
- Serif
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Arabic body text, Books, Quranic and classical typesetting, Editorial
- Weights
- 400, 700
- Styles
- Normal, Italic
- Variable
- No
- Glyphs
- 6,710
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Arabic
- Download size
- 816 KB
Size ladder
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Characters
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use it on the web
@font-face {
font-family: 'Amiri';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/amiri.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Amiri', serif;
}License
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Amiri free for commercial use?
- Yes. Amiri is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Amiri in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Amiri belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Khaled Hosny, Sebastian Kosch. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Amiri?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 4 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up.
- Does Amiri support Turkish?
- Yes. Amiri includes the characters Turkish needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
- Does Amiri support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Arabic?
- Yes. Amiri covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Arabic, across 6,710 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.