Amiri

Name: Amiri
Author: Khaled Hosny

Amiri brings classic elegance to your typography with refined serifs that guide the eye through extended reading.

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Serifby Khaled Hosny89% Accessible

Characters516

Glyphs619

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TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Amiri, including combinations with Lato, Cardo and Merriweather.

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Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

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Amiri Editorial Specimen

Amiri in Editorial Context

Amiri is a serif typeface by Khaled Hosny suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Khaled Hosny

Typeface Designer • Serif

Amiri demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Amiri supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Khaled Hosny, Amiri balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Amiri Typography

A serif typeface for UI components.

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Amiri Specimen

Amiri

Amiri is a serif typeface by Khaled Hosny built for display contexts.

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Amiri— serif typeface

AmiriBy Khaled Hosny

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Amiri Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Copy

Amiri Body Typography

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Amiri, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Amiri demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Amiri for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Amiri small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Amiri delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Amiri italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Amiri bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Amiri typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Amiri typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Amiri'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Amiri

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Amiri:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Amiri:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Amiri';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Amiri');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Using Amiri in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Amiri', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Amiri', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'amiri': ['Amiri', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-amiri">Your text here</p>

About

Amiri: History & Characteristics

Khaled Hosny

Serif

Open Source

Amiri, a distinctive serif typeface, exhibits calligraphic influence and natural flow, making it well-suited for print publications. Its classical proportions and traditional elegance contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for print publications and book typography, Amiri adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes Amiri font supports Arabic, Persian, and Urdu languages, incorporating a wide range of ligatures and....

Amiri comes from the work of Khaled Hosny. Known for serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Amiri's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Classicals classification, Amiri features bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for brand identities conveying authority and heritage.

Amiri is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Amiri

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Amiri's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Serif analysis. TypeSmith classifies Amiri within the Classicals (Humanist, Garalde, Transitional) and Moderns (Didone) tradition, characterized by Bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and Modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. Serif letterforms trace to Roman square capitals carved into stone. Key technical strength: extensive weight and optical-size ranges in superfamilies.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 89). Amiri performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts. Serifs guide horizontal eye movement along the baseline, making text sizes above 9 pt highly readable in print.

Design Heritage

Designed by Khaled Hosny. Known for serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Amiri's glyph proportions and optical balance across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Amiri

Amiri represents a Classicals typeface, anchored in the tradition where serif letterforms trace to Roman square capitals carved into stone. Its distinctive bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress make it well-suited for brand identities conveying authority and heritage. TypeSmith catalogs Amiri in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Amiri

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Alternatives to Amiri

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Amiri based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Amiri

Amiri scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. High-contrast Didones can cause halation for readers with astigmatism. Prefer Garalde or Transitional cuts at text sizes for inclusive readability.

How Legible is Amiri?

Amiri draws legibility from its bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Amiri?

Serifs guide horizontal eye movement along the baseline, making text sizes above 9 pt highly readable in print. On screen, hinting quality determines legibility below 14 px. Set body text at 16 px or larger on screen, with line heights between 1.4 and 1.6 for sustained reading comfort.

Amiri for Long-Form Content

Amiri provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. High stroke contrast can cause halation for some readers, so pair with ample line spacing on bright backgrounds.

Amiri Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Amiri. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Amiri at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Working with Amiri: Best Practices

Pair with geometric or grotesque sans-serifs for contrast. Avoid pairing two serifs from the same Vox sub-class to prevent visual redundancy. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Amiri. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Amiri in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights & Styles

Available on Google Fonts

4 weights available for download

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Available Weights

400

Regular

400

Regular Italic

700

Bold

700

Bold Italic

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Internationalization

International Character Support

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

Amiri font supports Arabic, Persian, and Urdu languages, incorporating a wide range of ligatures and stylistic variants typical of the Naskh calligraphic style.

Legal

Usage Rights for Amiri

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Amiri is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Amiri ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'amiri': ['Amiri', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-amiri">Your text here</p>

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Best Ways to Use Amiri

Best Font Pairings for Amiri

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In Context

Amiri Typography

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Character Set

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Amiri Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Features of Amiri

How Legible is Amiri?

How Readable is Amiri?

Amiri for Long-Form Content

Amiri Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Amiri: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Amiri

Best Ways to Use Amiri

Best Font Pairings for Amiri

Test Amiri Font Pairings Live

In Context

Amiri Typography

Amiri

Character Set

Type Scale

Amiri Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Features of Amiri

How Legible is Amiri?

How Readable is Amiri?

Amiri for Long-Form Content

Amiri Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Amiri: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference