Baloo Tammudu 2

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Weights and styles

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

Baloo Tammudu 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 Tammudu 2

Baloo Tammudu 2 is a display typeface for the Telugu script with Latin alongside it. It is one of ten families in the Baloo 2 project, each of which joins one Indic or Arabic script to the same Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese set. Baloo 2 extended the earlier Baloo with more glyphs and a range of five weights, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold, here on a variable axis from 400 to 800. The Latin in the specimen is a soft sans: stroke ends are fully rounded, curves are wide, and strokes are nearly even in thickness. The Telugu letters were designed by Maithili Shingre and Omkar Shende, the Latin collaboratively by Ek Type, and Girish Dalvi is credited with font engineering. The font holds 1,435 glyphs and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Baloo Tammudu 2 works

Telugu headlines

The family was drawn as a display design for Telugu, with heavy weights up to ExtraBold 800.

Telugu and English packaging

Rounded Telugu and Latin letters come from one file, so both languages on a pack share stroke and tone.

Children's content

Fully rounded stroke ends and wide curves suit storybooks, learning apps and cartoons.

Social posts and thumbnails

ExtraBold holds a short Telugu or English line over an image.

Captions under a heavy title

The makers note that the lighter weights of Baloo 2 were added so that smaller text could be set in the same family.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, telugu, 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 Tammudu 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 Tammudu 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 Tammudu 2";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BalooTammudu2-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

One of ten script families

Other scripts of the Baloo 2 project are separate families with their own names; this one carries Telugu.

Lightest weight is Regular

The axis runs from 400 to 800, so there is no Light or Thin.

No italic

All five styles are upright.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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