Baloo 2

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Baloo 2 Regular
• Medium 500Baloo 2 Medium
• SemiBold 600Baloo 2 SemiBold
• Bold 700Baloo 2 Bold
• ExtraBold 800Baloo 2 ExtraBold

Baloo 2 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 Baloo 2

Baloo 2 is a display family with soft, rounded stroke ends and a slightly bouncy rhythm, an extension of the earlier Baloo project by Ek Type. In the specimen the letters are monoline and open, with a single-bowl g and a short curved f, and the heavier weights fill out into chunky, compact shapes. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 800 and five named weights: Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold. There are no italics. This family covers Devanagari, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese in 1,585 glyphs; sister families in the Baloo 2 project pair the same Latin with other Indic scripts and with Arabic. Devanagari and Latin were designed collaboratively at Ek Type, with font engineering by Girish Dalvi. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Baloo 2 works

Headlines in Devanagari and Latin

Both scripts are drawn in the same rounded style, so a bilingual title keeps one voice.

Children's books and learning apps

Rounded ends and open letters, visible in the specimen, give short sentences a soft, approachable look.

Food and toy packaging

ExtraBold 800 is heavy enough to carry a product name on a small label.

Social media graphics

Five weights let a post stack a heavy headline over a lighter line of detail in the same family.

Onboarding screens and stickers

Regular and Medium work for a few lines of friendly copy beside an illustration.

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
• Vietnamese

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, vietnamese. 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 Baloo 2

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 Baloo 2 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: "Baloo 2";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Baloo2-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Baloo 2", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Baloo 2 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=Baloo+2:wght@400..800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Regular is the lightest weight

The weight axis starts at 400 and ends at 800. There is no light or thin style.

No italics

Baloo 2 has upright styles only.

Other scripts are separate families

This family holds Devanagari and Latin. The Baloo 2 project publishes other Indic scripts and Arabic under their own family names.

FAQs

Collections with Baloo 2

• Fonts for children and early readers

  Schoolbook sans-serifs, print handwriting and rounded display faces for worksheets, picture books and classroom materials.

Similar fonts

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