Alyamama

About the family

Alyamama is a new generation of Arabic typeface that blends the elegance of traditional Naskh with modern design technology. Built as a variable font with clean, optimised outlines, it is engineered for today’s high-resolution screens.

This isn’t another Boutros Ads, Muna, or Al Mohannad Bold — the design keeps calligraphic integrity while simplifying the outlines enough to render quickly and hold up at small sizes.

Design concept

• Variable font — a continuous weight axis from Light to Black, with seamless interpolation between every point on it.
• Simplified and geometric — minimal yet refined outlines that speed up text rendering and improve performance.
• Optically adjusted — careful attention to spacing and stem heights ensures visual harmony and readability at both display and text sizes.
• Calligraphic integrity — each glyph is derived from the traditional Naskh style, preserving the beauty of Arabic calligraphy.
• Wide forms — letters such as مـ، هـ، ط have been expanded for clarity at small sizes.

Character set

The family covers 1,486 glyphs, including a full Arabic set with contextual initial, medial, and final forms, plus a Latin companion based on the open-source typeface UNAL Ancízar.

License

Alyamama is free and open source, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The source files are on GitHub.