Baloo Paaji 2

Try Baloo Paaji 2

Weights and styles

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

Baloo Paaji 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 Paaji 2

Baloo Paaji 2 is a display family with soft, rounded stroke ends and a gentle bounce, built for the Gurmukhi script with a matching Latin. It belongs to the Baloo 2 project by Ek Type, a set of ten families that each combine one Indic or Arabic script with Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese under a local name. The Gurmukhi was designed by Shuchita Grover. Compared with the earlier Baloo, the second generation adds glyphs and extends the single heavy weight to five: Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold, all reachable on a variable weight axis from 400 to 800. The project notes say the lighter weights keep only a trace of the bounce so they can be used at smaller sizes. The Latin in the specimen is a monoline rounded sans with a single-storey g. The file contains 953 glyphs.

Where Baloo Paaji 2 works

Gurmukhi headlines and posters

Gurmukhi and Latin share stroke weight and rounding, so bilingual titles look like one voice.

Children's books and learning apps

Rounded ends and the bouncy heavy weights give letters a friendly character for young readers.

Social media graphics

ExtraBold 800 holds up over photos, and Regular handles the supporting line from the same family.

Food and festival branding

Five weights let a logo, a tagline and small print stay within one rounded design.

Animated titles

The 400 to 800 weight axis can be animated smoothly in video and on the web.

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

Character sets found in the files: gurmukhi, 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 Paaji 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 Paaji 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 Paaji 2";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BalooPaaji2-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

One Indic script per family

Baloo Paaji 2 carries Gurmukhi. Other scripts of the project are in sibling families such as Baloo 2.

No italic

The five styles are all upright; there is no slanted version.

Starts at Regular

The weight axis runs from 400 to 800, so there is no light or thin weight.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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