Biryani

Try Biryani

Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Biryani ExtraLight
• Light 300Biryani Light
• Regular 400Biryani Regular
• SemiBold 600Biryani SemiBold
• Bold 700Biryani Bold
• ExtraBold 800Biryani ExtraBold
• Black 900Biryani Black

About Biryani

Biryani is a geometric sans serif whose strokes keep nearly the same thickness throughout. Round letters are built on open, near-circular bowls, and details such as the hooked tail of the y keep the alphabet from looking mechanical; the official description calls the characters more wonky than sterile. The family has seven upright weights: ExtraLight, Light, Regular, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold and Black. There is no Medium and no italic. Its 850 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Devanagari, so Devanagari text and Western and Central European languages can share one design. The same description says the fonts are meant for text, though not for very long reading passages, because the shapes lean towards display. Dan Reynolds, who works in Berlin, leads the project with Mathieu Réguer, and the fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Biryani works

Headings in Devanagari and Latin

Both scripts are drawn in the same monolinear style, so a title and its translation keep one texture.

Short interface and marketing copy

The official notes place Biryani between text and display: paragraphs of a few lines, intros and captions fit that brief.

Brand systems with a wide weight range

Seven weights from ExtraLight 200 to Black 900 separate a headline, a subhead and small print without a second family.

Posters and covers

ExtraBold and Black turn the round geometric shapes into dense, dark words for large titles.

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

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Devanagari. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: devanagari, 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 Biryani

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 Biryani 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: "Biryani";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Biryani-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Biryani";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Biryani-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Biryani";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Biryani-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Biryani";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Biryani-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 3 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Biryani", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Biryani 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=Biryani:wght@200;300;400;600;700;800;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

All seven styles are upright. Emphasis has to come from a heavier weight.

No Medium weight

The weights step from Regular 400 straight to SemiBold 600; there is no 500 and no Thin 100.

Seven static files

Biryani is not a variable font. Each weight is a separate TTF file.

FAQs

Collections with Biryani

• Fonts that support Devanagari

  Open-license families for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and other Devanagari-script languages, each with Latin letters in the same files.

Similar fonts

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