Akaya Kanadaka

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Akaya Kanadaka Regular

About Akaya Kanadaka

Akaya Kanadaka is a display typeface from the Akaya project, described by its makers as an experimental single-weight design in Kannada, Telugu and Latin. The project is split into two font files with a common Latin: this one holds Kannada, and Akaya Telivigala holds Telugu. In the specimen the Latin letters lean a little to the right, stroke ends are rounded as if made with a soft brush, and details such as the looped k and the old-style numerals give it an informal, hand-made rhythm. There is one Regular style, and Akaya Kanadaka is not a variable font. It contains 836 glyphs for 461 encoded characters. The font's name table gives the designers' full names as Vaishnavi Murthy Yerkadithaya and Juan Luis Blanco Aristondo. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Akaya Kanadaka works

Kannada film and event titles

A display design with brush-like strokes gives a Kannada title a hand-lettered look.

Bilingual packaging

Kannada and Latin are drawn together, so a product name can appear in both scripts with one texture.

Posters and banners

The dark, rounded strokes of the one weight hold up at large sizes.

Shop signs and menus

Short names and dish titles gain a friendly tone from the forward lean and rounded ends.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Kannada. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: kannada, latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Akaya Kanadaka

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Akaya Kanadaka on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Akaya Kanadaka";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AkayaKanadaka-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Akaya Kanadaka", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Akaya Kanadaka with this markup:

<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=Akaya+Kanadaka&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One weight

Akaya Kanadaka has a single Regular style, without bold or italic.

Telugu is a separate font

The Telugu part of the Akaya project is published as Akaya Telivigala; this file covers Kannada and Latin.

Numerals vary in height

The digits in the specimen are old-style figures, with 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9 dropping below the baseline.

FAQs

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