Atma

Try Atma

Weights and styles

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

About Atma

Atma is a display family for Bengali and Latin with a light-hearted, hand-drawn character. The official notes say the two scripts were drawn side by side in a studio collaboration. In the Latin shown in the specimen, letters lean at slightly different angles, stems taper and swell like brush strokes, the A splays outward, and the baseline is uneven on purpose; the heavier weights turn the same shapes into thick, bouncy forms. The family has five weights (Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold) as separate static files, with no italics, and is not a variable font. Each font holds 749 glyphs for Bengali, Latin and Latin Extended. Black Foundry, based in Paris, leads the project. Sources differ on the individuals: the name table lists Hornus, Vincens, Minet and Riccardo Olocco, while the official notes replace Olocco with Roxane Gataud. Atma is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Atma works

Bengali and Latin headlines

Both scripts were drawn together, so a bilingual title has the same informal brush rhythm.

Children's books and learning material

Tilted, uneven letters give text a hand-drawn friendliness at large sizes.

Posters and event graphics

Bold 700 turns the bouncing shapes into a dark, lively headline.

Captions with a title

Five weights allow a light caption and a heavy title in one family.

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

Character sets found in the files: bengali, 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 Atma

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 Atma 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: "Atma";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Atma-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Atma";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Atma-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Atma";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Atma-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Atma";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Atma-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 1 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Atma 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=Atma:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Five static files

Each weight is a separate TTF; there is no variable version in the package.

No italics

All five weights are upright, though the letters already tilt irregularly.

Designer credits differ between sources

The font's name table and the official description list partly different people; both name Black Foundry.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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