Baloo Bhaina 2

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Weights and styles

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

Baloo Bhaina 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 Bhaina 2

Baloo Bhaina 2 is a rounded display family that covers the Odia script together with Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. It belongs to Baloo 2, a project of ten families from Ek Type in which each family joins one Indic script, or Arabic, to a shared Latin design; Baloo Bhaina 2 is the Odia one. In the specimen the Latin strokes are nearly even in thickness and end in rounded tips, and the weight builds from a fairly light Regular to a dense ExtraBold. The family is a variable font whose weight axis runs from 400 to 800, with 5 styles and 1,176 glyphs. The official description credits the Odia letters to Shuchita Grover, Manish Minz and Yesha Goshar, the Latin to Ek Type as a group, and font engineering to Girish Dalvi. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Baloo Bhaina 2 works

Odia and English headlines

Odia and Latin share one design, so a bilingual title keeps the same rounded stroke in both scripts.

Packaging and labels

ExtraBold 800 with rounded stroke ends gives a product name a soft, approachable weight.

App titles and buttons

Regular and Medium keep short interface strings light, while SemiBold and Bold mark actions.

Posters with a hierarchy

The 400 to 800 axis lets a headline, a subhead and a caption come from one variable file.

Vietnamese and European text

Latin Extended and Vietnamese letters are included next to the Odia character set.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, oriya, 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 Bhaina 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 Bhaina 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 Bhaina 2";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BalooBhaina2-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

One script per Baloo 2 family

Baloo Bhaina 2 carries Odia. Other Indic scripts and Arabic live in sibling families with their own names.

Variable file only

The package holds one variable font covering 400 to 800. Static weights are available from the official source.

No italics, nothing below Regular

The family is upright only and its lightest weight is Regular 400.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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