Akshar

Try Akshar

Weights and styles

• Light 300Akshar Light
• Regular 400Akshar Regular
• Medium 500Akshar Medium
• SemiBold 600Akshar SemiBold
• Bold 700Akshar Bold

Akshar is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Akshar

Akshar is a sans serif family with tall, narrow letters, made for display text in Latin and Devanagari. In the specimen the capitals are compressed, the curves of O and C have straight sides, and stroke thickness is nearly uniform at the default setting. The family is an OpenType variable font with two axes. Weight runs from 300 to 700, with the named instances Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. Contrast, a custom axis with the tag CTRS, runs from 0 to 100. There is no italic. The official description lists headlines, titles, announcements, statements, intros and outros as intended uses, and explains that the name is the word for a letter of the alphabet in Hindi and several other Indic languages. The 835 glyphs cover Devanagari, Latin and Latin Extended. Akshar is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Akshar works

Video intros and outros

Tall, narrow capitals fit a full title on one line of a 16:9 frame, a use the official description names.

Devanagari and Latin headlines

Both scripts are drawn in the same condensed proportions, so a two-script headline keeps one width and rhythm.

Event announcements

Narrow letters leave room for a long date, place and name on a single poster line.

Animated type

Weight and contrast can both be animated, since each is a continuous axis.

Social media statements

Bold 700 sets a short statement large inside a square or vertical frame.

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: Devanagari. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: devanagari, 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 Akshar

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 Akshar 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: "Akshar";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Akshar-VariableFont_CTRS%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Akshar 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=Akshar:wght@300..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

A custom contrast axis

CTRS is not a registered axis, so on the web it is set through font-variation-settings with a value from 0 to 100.

Weight stops at Bold

The weight axis covers 300 to 700; there is no ExtraBold or Black.

Opens at Light

The default instance of the variable font is Light 300, so Regular has to be requested as 400.

No italic

Akshar is upright only.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts