Markazi Text

Name: Markazi Text
Author: Khaled Hosny

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

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Serifby Khaled Hosny90% Accessible

Characters516

Glyphs619

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Best Font Pairings for Markazi Text

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Markazi Text, including combinations with Montserrat, Lato and IBM Plex Mono.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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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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Markazi Text Editorial Specimen

Markazi Text in Editorial Context

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

Khaled Hosny

Typeface Designer • Serif

Markazi Text 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 Markazi Text 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, Markazi Text balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Markazi Text Typography

A serif typeface for UI components.

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Markazi Text Specimen

Markazi Text

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

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Markazi Text— serif typeface

Markazi TextBy Khaled Hosny

Markazi TextTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Markazi Text Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Copy

Body Text with Markazi Text

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

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

When setting Markazi Text 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.

Markazi Text 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	Markazi Text delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Markazi Text italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Markazi Text bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Markazi Text typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Markazi Text typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Markazi Text'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed Markazi Text in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Markazi Text in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Markazi Text', 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        'markazi-text': ['Markazi Text', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-markazi-text">Your text here</p>

About

Markazi Text: History & Characteristics

Khaled Hosny

Serif

Open Source

Markazi Text presents human touch and calligraphic influence, making it well-suited for book typography. Its traditional elegance and classical proportions contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for book typography and print publications, Markazi Text adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The Markazi Text font supports a variety of languages, primarily focusing on those that use the Arab....

Markazi Text was crafted by Khaled Hosny. Known for serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Markazi Text's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Classicals classification, Markazi Text features bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for long-form editorial and book typography.

Markazi Text is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Best Ways to Use Markazi Text

Best Font Pairings for Markazi Text

Test Markazi Text Font Pairings Live

In Context

Markazi Text Typography

Markazi Text

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Markazi Text

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

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