Cairo — Free Arabic Google Font
Cairo pairs a Kufi-influenced Arabic design with a Latin companion built on Titillium Web, giving it wide, open counters and short ascenders that stay legible at small sizes and striking at large ones. With weights spanning Light to Black, it moves comfortably from body copy to bold headlines without losing its geometric character.
About Cairo
Designed by Mohamed Gaber, Cairo takes the existing Latin typeface Titillium Web and extends it with a Kufi-influenced Arabic covering Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu. Because both scripts share the same wide, open counters and short ascenders, Cairo has become a common default for bilingual Arabic/English interfaces.
Designers: Mohamed Gaber, Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino
Best used for
- UI and product design
- Headlines and branding
- Multilingual Arabic/Farsi/Urdu content
Styles & weights
Cairo ships with 8 weights on this site, self-hosted alongside every other font here so downloads never depend on a third-party server.
- 200 — Extra Light Download .ttf
- 300 — Light Download .ttf
- 400 — Regular Download .ttf
- 500 — Medium Download .ttf
- 600 — SemiBold Download .ttf
- 700 — Bold Download .ttf
- 800 — Extra Bold Download .ttf
- 900 — Black Download .ttf
Arabic character preview
ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم — مرحبا بالعالم — ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩
Download Cairo
Every weight is available individually above as a .ttf, or grab the whole family at once:
Using Cairo on the web
Load it from the Google Fonts CDN:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cairo:wght@200;300;400;500;600;700;800;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Then reference it in your CSS:
font-family: "Cairo", sans-serif;License
Cairo is published under the SIL Open Font License (OFL). In practice that means you can use it freely in personal and commercial projects — including embedding it in websites, apps, and printed designs — at no cost. The license does restrict selling the font file on its own; read the exact terms before any edge-case use.
Read the full license text on Google's official font repository ↗
Want to see Cairo next to the rest of the library? The Google Fonts Arabic browser lets you filter and compare every font on this page at once, and the Arabic font style previewer covers the full 291-style collection beyond just Google Fonts. If you like Modern Sans designs specifically, browse the whole Modern & Digital category. Once you've picked a font, the Arabic calligraphy generator lets you set it in a finished design — gradients, backgrounds, and export as PNG, JPG, SVG, or PDF.