Baloo Tamma 2

Try Baloo Tamma 2

Weights and styles

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

Baloo Tamma 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 Tamma 2

Baloo Tamma 2 is a display typeface with rounded stroke ends and a gentle bounce in its shapes. It belongs to Baloo 2, which the official notes describe as an extension of the earlier Baloo project with more glyphs, engineering improvements and five weights; the project consists of ten families, each combining one Indic or Arabic script with Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Baloo Tamma 2 is the Kannada family. The notes credit the Kannada design to Divya Kowshik and Shuchita Grover, with the Latin drawn collaboratively at Ek Type and font engineering by Girish Dalvi. In the specimen the Latin is monoline and soft: every terminal is rounded, bowls are wide, and the heavier weights grow chunky without closing up. One variable file covers Regular 400 to ExtraBold 800 and holds 1,260 glyphs. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Baloo Tamma 2 works

Kannada and English headlines

Kannada and Latin are drawn as one design, so a bilingual title keeps the same rounded stroke.

Children's books and learning apps

Rounded terminals and wide bowls give letters a soft outline suited to covers and activity headings.

Food and snack packaging

ExtraBold 800 fills a label with chunky letters that stay open inside.

Friendly app titles

The weight axis from 400 to 800 lets a screen title and its subtitle come from one file.

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

Character sets found in the files: kannada, 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 Tamma 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 Tamma 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 Tamma 2";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BalooTamma2-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

No weights lighter than Regular

The axis starts at 400 and ends at 800; there is no Light and no italic.

One variable file

The package contains a single variable TTF. Static files for each weight are available from the official source.

One of ten sibling families

Other Baloo 2 families cover other scripts; Baloo Tamma 2 is the one that carries Kannada.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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