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Anek Bangla

Bengali and Latin variable sans with weight and width axes, from Ek Type's ten-script Anek family.

Sans Serif 8 styles · variable by Ek Type OFL

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Anek Bangla is the Bengali-script member of Anek, a multi-script sans serif family by Ek Type. Anek Bangla is a variable font with a weight axis from Thin 100 to ExtraBold 800 and a width axis from 75 to 125, plus Latin. Anek Bangla is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and serves headlines, wordmarks and interface text.

Anek Bangla font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Ek Type
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
8 8 weights
Variable font
Yes Weight 100–800, Width 75–125
Glyphs
811
Languages checked
13 see the list
Last updated
version 1.003
Used for
HeadlinesBody textInterfacesBranding

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Anek Bangla

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Anek Bangla; the download contains the complete files.

Anek Bangla font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Anek Bangla specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Anek Bangla Thin
  • ExtraLight 200Anek Bangla ExtraLight
  • Light 300Anek Bangla Light
  • Regular 400Anek Bangla Regular
  • Medium 500Anek Bangla Medium
  • SemiBold 600Anek Bangla SemiBold
  • Bold 700Anek Bangla Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Anek Bangla ExtraBold

Anek Bangla 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 Anek Bangla

Anek Bangla is a sans serif typeface for the Bengali script with a companion Latin, one of ten script versions in the Anek family. Ek Type, a collective of type designers in Mumbai, designed and maintains the project; the name table credits Sulekha Rajkumar for the Bangla and Yesha Goshar for the Latin. The font is variable on two axes: weight, from 100 to 800 with eight named weights, and width, from 75 to 125. The official description notes capsule-like forms at the condensed end and sharp terminals with tapered joins in the heaviest weights. In the specimen the Latin has flat-sided rounds and compact proportions. There are 811 glyphs across Bengali and Latin character sets, and no italic. The Latin includes the letters for English, German, Spanish and other Western European languages.

Where Anek Bangla works

Bengali headlines
The heaviest weights, where the description points to sharp terminals and tapered joins, give Bengali titles a strong shape.
Fitting text to a space
The 75 to 125 width axis narrows or widens a line without changing the font size.
Wordmarks in Bengali and Latin
Both scripts share the weight and width axes, so a two-script logo can be tuned as one.
Multi-script products
Anek exists in ten scripts drawn to a shared set of features, so Anek Bangla sits beside its sibling fonts in one system.
Interface text
Regular and Medium at normal width cover labels and short text in Bengali apps.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 811 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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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

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

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2021 The Anek Project Authors (https://github.com/EkType/Anek)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Anek Bangla

Alegreya Serif

Anek Bangla is sans serif and Alegreya is serif (6 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Antic Slab Slab Serif

Anek Bangla is sans serif and Antic Slab is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Azeret Mono Monospace

Azeret Mono is a monospace family (9 weights) for code and figures next to Anek Bangla as the text face.

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 Anek Bangla 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Anek Bangla";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AnekBangla-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Anek Bangla with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Two axes
Weight runs from 100 to 800 and width from 75 to 125. The default instance is Medium 500 at width 100.
No italics
Anek Bangla has upright styles only.
Latin is Western European
No Latin Extended subset is listed, and French is covered except for the rare capital Ÿ.
One large variable file
The package is a single variable font of about 1.3 MB; static instances are available from the official source.

FAQs

Is Anek Bangla free for commercial use?

Yes. Anek Bangla is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Anek Bangla?

Anek Bangla comes from Ek Type. The font's name table credits Sulekha Rajkumar for the Bangla and Yesha Goshar for the Latin.

How many weights does Anek Bangla have?

Anek Bangla has eight named weights, from Thin 100 to ExtraBold 800, and any value in between can be set on the weight axis.

Is Anek Bangla a variable font?

Yes. Anek Bangla is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 800 and a width axis from 75 to 125.

Which languages does Anek Bangla support?

Anek Bangla covers the Bengali script and includes the Latin letters needed for English and Western European languages such as German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch.

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