Amarna
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/amarna 2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/amarna/wght.css'; 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Amarna Variable", sans-serif;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* amarna-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Amarna Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/amarna:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
} Background & Story
Amarna is a semi-glyphic humanist sans-serif typeface, taking inspiration from the cold sophistication of early humanist sans- and glyphic serifs such as Gill Sans or Albertus, while attempting to bring the traits which define those typefaces in line with the principles of modern sans-serif type design. Amarna is amicable and easy to read in small sizes, but takes on a much more glyphic, naturalistic quality when rendered in larger sizes, at lighter weights and especially in all-caps text. Amarna is a variable-weight font, with weights currently ranging from 100 (Hairline) to 700 (Bold).
To contribute, see github.com/ijvanl/Amarna.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/amarna Designed by
Ishtār van Looy
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License
OFL-1.1