Baloo Chettan 2

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Weights and styles

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

Baloo Chettan 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 Chettan 2

Baloo Chettan 2 is a display family with rounded stroke ends and soft, slightly bouncy shapes. It is one of ten families in Ek Type's Baloo 2 project, each of which joins one Indic or Arabic script to a shared Latin; this one carries Malayalam, drawn by Maithili Shingre and Unnati Kotecha. Baloo 2 extends the earlier Baloo design with more glyphs, engineering improvements and a range of five weights, from Regular to ExtraBold. The official notes say the lighter weights keep only a little of the bounce, so the family can also set longer text. Baloo Chettan 2 is a variable font on a weight axis from 400 to 800, without italics. Its 1,004 glyphs cover Malayalam, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Baloo Chettan 2 works

Malayalam headlines and posters

ExtraBold gives Malayalam titles the full rounded, bouncy character of the Baloo design.

Bilingual Malayalam and English material

Malayalam and Latin are drawn as one family, so both scripts share weight and tone on a page.

Children's books and learning apps

Rounded stroke ends and soft shapes give letters a friendly look in either script.

Packaging and shop graphics

Five weights from Regular to ExtraBold cover a product name, a description and small details.

Longer passages in the lighter weights

According to the official notes, Regular and Medium tone the bounce down enough for texts of greater length.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, malayalam, 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 Chettan 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 Chettan 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 Chettan 2";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BalooChettan2-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Nothing lighter than Regular

The weight axis runs from 400 to 800. Light and Thin are not part of the family.

No italics

Baloo Chettan 2 has upright styles only.

One script per Baloo 2 family

Baloo Chettan 2 carries Malayalam. Other Indic scripts and Arabic are in separately named families of the same project.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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