Baloo Da 2

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Weights and styles

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

Baloo Da 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 Da 2

Baloo Da 2 is a rounded display typeface that covers the Bengali script together with Latin. The Latin in the specimen has soft, fully rounded stroke ends, a single-storey g and open, friendly shapes; the heavier weights thicken into compact, dark words. It belongs to Baloo 2, which the official notes describe as ten families, one for each of nine Indic scripts plus Arabic, all carrying the same Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese set. Compared with the earlier Baloo, the notes list extra glyphs, engineering fixes and an extension to five weights. One variable file holds a weight axis from 400 to 800 — Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold — with no italics. It contains 1,247 glyphs. The Bengali letters are credited to Noopur Datye and Sulekha Rajkumar with Ek Type, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Baloo Da 2 works

Headlines in Bengali script and Latin

Both scripts share the rounded stroke ends and weight, so a bilingual headline reads as one design.

Children's books and learning apps

Soft terminals and open shapes give titles and prompts an approachable tone for young readers.

Snack, toy and sweet packaging

ExtraBold 800 forms a dense, rounded word that carries a product name on a small pack.

Captions and bylines

The lighter end of the axis, Regular and Medium, keeps the family usable for short supporting text beneath a headline.

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: 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, 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 Da 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 Da 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 Da 2";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BalooDa2-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

One variable file

The download is a single variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 800. Static instances are available from the official source.

Nothing lighter than Regular

The axis starts at 400. Baloo Da 2 has no Light or Thin, and no italics.

One script per family

Baloo Da 2 carries the Bengali script. Other scripts of the Baloo 2 project live in sibling families with their own names.

FAQs

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