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Mirza

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

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Serifby Khaled Hosny88% Accessible
Characters516
Glyphs619
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Mirza

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Best Font Pairings for Mirza

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Mirza, including combinations with League Spartan, Lora and Anticyclone.

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

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Test Mirza Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Mirza with any font combination in real-time, optimized for serif characteristics.

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

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In Context

Mirza Specimen Gallery

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Mirza Editorial Specimen

Mirza in Editorial Context

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

Khaled Hosny

Typeface Designer • Serif

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

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Mirza Typography

A serif typeface for UI components.

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Mirza Specimen

Mirza

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

2 WeightsSerif Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

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Tagline Pairings

Mirza— serif typeface
MirzaBy Khaled Hosny
MirzaTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Mirza Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Mirza

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Mirza primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Mirza section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Mirza subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Mirza content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Mirza minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Mirza smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Mirza Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Mirza 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.

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

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxMirza delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxMirza italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxMirza bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxMirza typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxMirza typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Mirza'; }

Quick Start

Mirza Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Mirza in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Mirza: A Closer Look

Khaled Hosny
Serif
Open Source

Mirza brings Swiss precision and modernist clarity, making it well-suited for formal documents. Its stroke contrast and decorative terminals contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for editorial design and print publications, Mirza adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The Mirza font supports languages that use the Arabic script, including Persian, Urdu, and Arabic it....

Mirza was designed by Khaled Hosny. The typeface's Bracketed or hairline serifs and Modulated stroke contrast reflect a design philosophy optimized for Contemporary serif design.

As a Transitional serif in the Vox-ATypI Classicals family, Mirza classical serif tradition. Its bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress make it a strong fit for academic papers and legal documents.

Mirza 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.

Mirza

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Mirza

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

1

Classification

Transitional serif classification. Mirza exhibits Bracketed or hairline serifs, Modulated stroke contrast, Open counters with generous apertures. Designed by Khaled Hosny. A serif typeface available through TypeSmith.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 88). Mirza 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.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Khaled Hosny. Mirza classical serif tradition, delivered as a single focused weight. The designer's portfolio includes aref ruqaa ink and aref ruqaa.

Overview

About Mirza

Mirza falls within the Transitional serif in the Vox-ATypI Classicals family, designed during the Contemporary serif design era. Built with Bracketed or hairline serifs and Modulated stroke contrast, Mirza serves as a standard typeface for academic papers and legal documents. TypeSmith indexes Mirza in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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3 curated pairings for Mirza
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

88
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Mirza

Mirza 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 Mirza?

Mirza 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.

Mirza Reading Performance

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.

Mirza for Long-Form Content

Mirza 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.

Mirza Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Mirza

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 Mirza. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Mirza in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

Mirza Font Files

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

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Mirza Multilingual 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

The Mirza font supports languages that use the Arabic script, including Persian, Urdu, and Arabic itself, along with basic Latin characters for limited support of English and other Western languages.

Legal

Mirza License Information

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.

Mirza 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 Mirza ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.