Amiri — An Arabic text typeface

Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface in the Naskh style for typesetting books and other running text.

Amiri is a revival of the beautiful typeface pioneered in the early 20^th century by Bulaq Press in Cairo, also known as Amiria Press, after which the font is named.

The uniqueness of this typeface comes from its superb balance between the beauty of Naskh calligraphy on the one hand and the constraints and requirements of elegant typography on the other. Also, it is one of the few metal typefaces that were used in typesetting the Koran, making it a good source for a digital typeface to be used in typesetting Koranic verses.

Amiri project aims at the revival of the aesthetics and traditions of Arabic typesetting and adapting it to the era of digital typesetting in a publicly available form.

Amiri is a free, open-source project that everyone is encouraged to use and modify. See the license for more details.

Font features

Amiri supports a large number of Arabic characters supported by Unicode, which includes support for Quranic notation, as well as many languages that use the Arabic script. The font also provides a wide range of OpenType features. Please refer to the font documentation that describes many of these features.

Participation

All contributions are highly appreciated; you can help by:

• Testing the font and reporting any issues or suggesting improvement, especially if you are a native speaker of any language using Arabic script other than Arabic language.
• Improving glyph outlines and adding more variants, especially if you have experience with Arabic calligraphy.
• Supporting the project. If you like the font and use it, I don’t mind receiving an email telling me so.

Reporting issues

We use a bug tracker where bug reports and other suggestions should be sent.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who supported this project, especially:

• Abdarrahman Hosny, my younger brother, without his enormous help in drawing the glyph, this project would have stagnated for years.
• The TeX Users Group (TUG) for their generous fund.
• Fahd Al-Saidi and the people behind IT Wadi for their generous donation, which allowed me to devote more time to the project.
• Google for generous funds through Google Fonts.

License

Amiri font is distributed under Open Font License, which allows:

• The freedom to use the font in your book, your website, or wherever you want.
• The freedom to modify the font to fit your needs as long as the modified version is kept under this license.
• The freedom to distribute the font and any modified versions, even with products you sell, as long as you don’t sell the font on its own.
• Crediting the original authors of the font and not claiming it is yours.

See the link above for the actual license text.