Harmattan

Designed by SIL International
4 styles3 language setsAdded 2020Version v24SIL Open Font License 1.1
Harmattan
Poster
Harmattan
Opening night. Doors at eight.
Logo
Label
Small batch
Harmattan
Est. 2026
Website
HarmattanWork   About   Contact
Harmattan
A short line of supporting copy that shows how the headline sits above running text on a real page.
Get started
Business card
Harmattan
Studio · hello@yourname.com · +27 82 000 0000
Shop sign
Harmattan
T-shirt
Harmattan
Coffee cup
Harmattan
Social post
yourbrand
Harmattan
Tote bag
Harmattan

About Harmattan

Harmattan, named after the trade winds that blow during the winter in West Africa, is designed in a Warsh style to suit the needs of languages using the Arabic script in West Africa. This font provides a simplified rendering of Arabic script, using basic connecting glyphs but not including a wide variety of additional ligatures or contextual alternates (only the required lam-alef ligatures.) Harmattan Version 2.000 (released in June 2020) now includes a Bold style and contains near complete coverage of all the characters defined in Unicode 13.0 for Arabic script (excluding the Arabic Presentation Forms blocks, which are not recommended for normal use). It has full support for the Arabic and Arabic Supplement Unicode blocks, and the Arabic Extended-A block with the exception of U+08D3..U+08E2. In 2023 an additional two weights for this typeface family were added for a total of four weights now. The glyphset was expanded to support all of the Unicode 15.0 character set. Support for the Kyrgyz language was added. Bob Hallissy does Graphite, OpenType, and TypeTuner code, and build support. Becca Hirsbrunner is the Lead Designer. George W. Nuss is the Original Designer. Iska Routamaa is a Contributing Designer. The Harmattan project is maintained by SIL International. Harmattan is released under the SIL Open Font License. Harmattan is a trademark of SIL International. For further information about this font, including Unicode ranges supported, Graphite and OpenType font features and how to use them, and licensing, please see the documentation on the website software.sil.org/Harmattan . To contribute, see github.com/silnrsi/font-harmattan .

Free for personal and commercial use, in print, on the web and in apps. You may not sell the font files on their own. Read the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Feels
Category
Sans serif
Weights
400, 500, 600, 700
Styles
normal
Languages
arabic, latin, latin-ext
Licence
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Price
Free
Source
Project repository

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Served by Google Fonts, or host the files yourself with the web download.

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Harmattan:wght@400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
font-family: "Harmattan", sans-serif;
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