Cairo
Mohamed Gaber built Cairo by taking Titillium's Latin and extending it into Arabic, drawing the Arabic on Kufi calligraphic bones rather than bending Latin shapes to fit — which is the difference between a typeface that supports Arabic and one designed for it. The counters are wide and the ascenders and descenders deliberately short, so a line of Arabic stays compact without becoming harder to read, and Arabic and Latin can share a line height without either looking wrong. It also carries a slant axis running from minus eleven to plus eleven degrees, the only font in this archive that has one, so the obliqueness is a number you dial rather than a separate italic file.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
- Arabic
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Foundry
- Released
- Category
- License
- Commercial use
- Good for
- Weights
- Styles
- Variable
- Glyphs
- Languages
- Download size
- Source
Size ladder
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
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: 'Cairo';
/* 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/cairo.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 200 1000;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Cairo', sans-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 Cairo free for commercial use?
- Yes. Cairo 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 Cairo in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Cairo belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Mohamed Gaber, Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Cairo?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file 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. Cairo is a variable font: the single file carries all 9 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — only reads the first weight and will show it as Regular. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 8 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Cairo support Turkish?
- Yes. Cairo 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 Cairo support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Arabic?
- Yes. Cairo covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Arabic, across 1,956 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.