Arya

Try Arya

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Arya Regular
• Bold 700Arya Bold

About Arya

Arya is a sans serif family for Devanagari and Latin in which stroke contrast does the work that serifs do elsewhere. Vertical stems are thick, while the arches of n and m, the bowls and the horizontal bars thin sharply where they meet the stems, a pattern clear in the specimen's lowercase and numerals. According to the official notes the Devanagari began as a design numbered 1201 from Modular InfoTech and was smoothed for this release, and the Latin was drawn new to match it in weight and size. The family has two styles, Regular and Bold, with 806 glyphs each. Eduardo Tunni, a designer based in Buenos Aires, leads the project, and the name table credits Eduardo Rodriguez Tunni together with Modular Infotech.

Where Arya works

Hindi and English headings

The Latin was drawn to match the Devanagari in weight and size, so mixed-script titles keep an even colour.

Magazine and news titles

Thick stems against thin joins give a sans serif headline some of the sparkle of a contrasted serif.

Pull quotes and standfirsts

Regular at medium sizes shows the contrast without the weight of the Bold.

Brand names in two scripts

A name can be written in Devanagari and Latin using the same two weights.

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 Arya

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 Arya 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: "Arya";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Arya-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Arya";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Arya-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Arya 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=Arya:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two styles, no italic

Arya consists of Regular and Bold. Emphasis has to come from the Bold, since no italic exists.

Thin joins at small sizes

The joins and horizontals are much thinner than the stems, a contrast drawn to be seen at heading sizes.

Static fonts

Arya is supplied as two static files and is not a variable font.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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