Baloo Thambi 2

Try Baloo Thambi 2

Weights and styles

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

Baloo Thambi 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 Thambi 2

Baloo Thambi 2 is a rounded display typeface that pairs the Tamil script with Latin. It is one of the ten families of the Baloo 2 project by Ek Type, each of which joins a single Indic or Arabic script to a shared Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese set. In the specimen the Latin has soft stroke ends, a lowercase f that dips below the baseline and compact, friendly proportions that grow chunky at ExtraBold. Baloo 2 extends the earlier Baloo to five weights, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold, and Baloo Thambi 2 delivers them as a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 800. The Tamil was designed by Aadarsh Rajan, the Latin collaboratively by Ek Type, with engineering help from Girish Dalvi. There are 940 glyphs. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Baloo Thambi 2 works

Tamil and English headlines

Tamil and Latin share one rounded design, so bilingual titles and banners keep the same weight and softness.

Children's books and learning apps

Soft stroke ends and the bounce the designers kept in the lighter weights suit material for young readers.

Snack and toy packaging

ExtraBold 800 gives a product name a chunky, approachable shape on shelf.

Social posts and stickers

Five weights let a short caption contrast a heavy keyword with a Regular line beneath it.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, tamil, 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 Thambi 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 Thambi 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 Thambi 2";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BalooThambi2-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Starts at Regular

The weight axis begins at 400 and ends at 800. There is no light weight and no italic.

One variable file

The package contains the variable font; the five static instances are not included.

One of ten script families

Other Baloo 2 families carry other scripts under their own names; this one is the Tamil version.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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