Mirza Font Family

Mirza is a diverse Arabic font family that presents a neat and clear calligraphic-inspired appearance. It is a body text font that is based on the classical Naskh script. Mirza contains a Latin typeface that complements the Arabic, making it suitable for bilingual texts. The design uses ligatures to comply with Arabic and Persian aesthetic rules. This font family is commissioned by Google Fonts. The project was led by a Los Angeles design company, KB Studio, in 2015-2016. The Arabic portion is crafted by Kourosh Beigpour, the Latin designed by Eduardo Tunni, and the overall engineering by Lasse Fister. The typeface offers 4 different weights, increasing its use for multiple projects. The weights include:

1. Mirza Regular
2. Mirza Medium
3. Mirza Bold
4. Mirza SemiBold

This Naskh font is highly legible due to its clean, elegant, and flowing letterforms, which are characteristic of Arabic script. It’s well-suited for both short and long text blocks, ensuring readability over extended periods due to its balanced design. The refined and traditional look of this font makes it an excellent choice for website designs, headings, body text, UI designs, books, magazines, branding, and posts. Considering the thickness, it varies across different weights, from thin to bold. However, due to its Qalam writing nature the thickness of letters changes like the flow of calligraphic pen. The font is designed with optimal spacing between letters, ensuring clarity and ease of reading, even at smaller sizes. This careful spacing supports the readability, adding more to its appeal. Moreover, Mirza supports many languages, including Arabic, Urdu, Persian, and Latin scripts, with a wide charset of 977 and an extensive glyph count of 1432.