Amiri

Designed by Khaled Hosny, Sebastian Kosch

2 weights • Version 30 • On Google Fonts since 2012 • Popularity #193

Quick Summary

4

Styles · incl. italic

400-700

Weight Range

Static

Not variable

3

Languages / Subsets

Category
serif
Best for
display
Scripts
Arabic, Latin
Origin
Cairo, Egypt
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
Aug 26, 2025

© 2010-2022 The Amiri Project Authors .

The quick brown fox

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About Amiri Fonts

Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface in Naskh style for typesetting books and other running text. Its design is a revival of the beautiful typeface pioneered in early 20th century by Bulaq Press in Cairo, also known as Amiria Press, after which the font is named.

Read more about the project at aliftype.com/amiri/

To contribute, see github.com/aliftype/amiri.

Who Designed Amiri?

Khaled Hosny portrait

Khaled Hosny

Khaled Hosny is an Egyptian type designer who specializes in Arabic type design, and a software developer whose areas of expertise include font engineering, text layout, localization, and internationalization. Khaled is also an amateur artist.

aliftype.com | Github

Sebastian Kosch portrait

Sebastian Kosch

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