Benne

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Benne Regular

About Benne

Benne is a typeface made first of all for Kannada text. Its official description says the style and weight were chosen to harmonise with EB Garamond, the open Garamond revival begun by Georg Duffner, and the Latin shown in the specimen follows that model: an old-style serif with gentle contrast, slanted stress, a small-eyed e, a long-tailed Q and old-style numerals. The font has one Regular style and is not a variable font. It holds 948 glyphs for 505 encoded characters, a ratio that reflects the many combined forms Kannada needs. Alongside Kannada it covers Latin and part of Latin Extended. John Harrington developed Benne; the font's name table gives his name as John-Daniel Harrington. The copyright belongs to The Benne Project Authors and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Benne works

Kannada books and articles

Benne was developed as a text face for Kannada, with weight and style set for continuous reading.

Kannada alongside English

Its Latin is cut in the same old-style manner, so English words inside a Kannada paragraph do not change colour.

Documents typeset in EB Garamond

Because Benne was matched to EB Garamond, Kannada passages can be added to a document already set in that family.

Titles and epigraphs

The single Regular weight at a larger size works for headings above Kannada text.

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
• Hungarian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

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. 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 Benne

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 Benne 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: "Benne";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Benne-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Benne", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Benne 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=Benne&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Regular only

Benne has no bold and no italic; emphasis needs another device or a companion family.

Old-style numerals

The digits in the specimen rise and fall like lowercase letters.

Latin Extended is partial

Letters for Polish, Hungarian and Turkish are present, but Czech and Romanian are not fully covered: the lowercase ť and the Romanian ț are missing, for example.

FAQs

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