Baloo Bhai 2

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Weights and styles

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

Baloo Bhai 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 Bhai 2

Baloo Bhai 2 is the Gujarati member of Ek Type's Baloo 2 project, a group of ten families that each combine one Indic or Arabic script with a shared Latin. Its letters are soft and sturdy: stroke ends are rounded, thickness stays almost even, and curves are slightly squared. The family is a variable font with one axis, weight, running from 400 to 800, with five named weights: Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold. There is no italic. The 1,275 glyphs cover Gujarati together with Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. According to the official description the Gujarati letters are the work of Noopur Datye and Supriya Tembe, the Latin was drawn collaboratively at Ek Type, and Baloo 2 extends the earlier Baloo project with more glyphs and a wider range of weights. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Baloo Bhai 2 works

Gujarati and English headlines

Both scripts share weight and roundness, so a bilingual poster or shop sign reads as one design.

Snack and toy packaging

ExtraBold 800 with rounded stroke ends gives a product name a soft, friendly mass on a pack.

Children's apps and books

Rounded forms in Regular and Medium set short sentences, labels and buttons for young readers.

Animated titles

The weight axis moves continuously between 400 and 800, so a title can thicken or thin in motion graphics.

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

Character sets found in the files: gujarati, 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 Bhai 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 Bhai 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 Bhai 2";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BalooBhai2-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Weight starts at 400

There is no light cut: the axis runs from Regular 400 to ExtraBold 800.

One variable file

The package holds a single variable font. Static files for the individual weights are available from the official source.

No italic

Baloo Bhai 2 is upright only.

One of ten sibling families

Other Baloo 2 families pair the same Latin with a different script; Baloo Bhai 2 is the one that carries Gujarati.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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