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We present in this paper a system of Amazigh handwriting recognition based on horizontal and vertical centerline of the character. After the image preprocessing, the text is segmented into lines and then into characters. The positions of the vertical and horizontal centerline of the character are used to obtain a set of independent and dependent features to those lines. These features are related to the densities of pixels and are extracted on binary images of characters using the sliding window technique. Finally, a multilayer perceptron is used for character classification. The system was tested on two bases of the Amazigh characters: on a printed database of Amazigh characters and on another one for handwritten characters created locally. The correct average recognition rate obtained using 10-cross-validation was 99.28 % for the 19437 Amazigh printed characters and 96.32% for the 20150 Amazigh handwritten characters.