Cairo
Designed By
Mohamed Gaber, Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino
8 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Cairo · Regular
Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.
8 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Cairo ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Welcome to the Nile corniche
A Clear Hierarchy
Cairo · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Departures09:00 →
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
8 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Extra Light200
Welcome to the Nile corniche
Light300
Welcome to the Nile corniche
Regular400
Welcome to the Nile corniche
Medium500
Welcome to the Nile corniche
Semi Bold600
Welcome to the Nile corniche
Bold700
Welcome to the Nile corniche
Extra Bold800
Welcome to the Nile corniche
Black900
Welcome to the Nile corniche
Cairo started as a Latin family and had Arabic added to it. Mohamed Gaber took Titillium Web, the Latin family credited to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, and drew a matching Arabic based on the Kufi calligraphic style.
Both halves share wide open counters and short ascenders and descenders. That keeps lines compact without hurting readability. The Arabic glyph set goes beyond Arabic itself to Farsi and Urdu.
There are 8 weights, Extra Light to Black. Gaber suggests the lighter ones for body text and the heavier ones for headlines and display, and the range makes a bilingual website or app easy to build from 1 family.
He leads the project from Cairo, the city it is named for. Google Fonts added the family in March 2019, and it has since gained a variable version.

Characters & Figures
699 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Cairo
8 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 379 KB ↓- Version
- 3.130
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/cairo/cairo.css">
body {
font-family: 'Cairo', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.
Cairo Heading · Cairo Body
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
