Mirza — Free Arabic Google Font
Mirza is a Naskh-based body-text face from KB Studio, built with the ligatures Arabic and Persian readers expect from comfortable running text. Its matched Latin component keeps multilingual documents visually consistent.
About Mirza
Mirza is a body-text typeface based on the Naskh script from KB Studio, a design studio in Los Angeles, and was added to Google Fonts in 2016. It comes in four weights and uses ligatures to follow the rules of Arabic and Persian aesthetics. Like the studio's display face Katibeh, it includes a Latin designed in harmony with the Arabic for multilingual text.
Designer: KB Studio
Best used for
- Persian/Farsi and Arabic body text
- Multilingual document design
- Comfortable long-form reading
How Mirza compares
Katibeh is Mirza's display sibling from the same studio: use Katibeh for headings and Mirza underneath. Compared with Amiri, Mirza is a more modern Naskh designed with Persian readers in mind as well as Arabic ones, while Amiri revives one specific Cairo printing tradition. Choose Mirza for running text in Arabic or Persian, especially when you already use Katibeh for display.
Tips for using Mirza
Mirza works for articles, books and documents in Arabic or Persian, set at normal reading sizes with comfortable line spacing. Medium and SemiBold give subtle emphasis without the jump to Bold. It is a Naskh design, not Nasta'liq; for the hanging Persian and Urdu style, use Noto Nastaliq Urdu instead.
Styles & weights
4 weights, self-hosted:
- 400 — Regular Download .ttf
- 500 — Medium Download .ttf
- 600 — SemiBold Download .ttf
- 700 — Bold 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 Mirza
Using Mirza on the web
Load it from the Google Fonts CDN:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Mirza:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Then reference it in your CSS:
font-family: "Mirza", sans-serif;License
Licensed under the SIL Open Font License — free for personal and commercial use. What the OFL allows →