Cambay

Try Cambay

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Cambay Regular Italic
• Bold 700Cambay Bold Bold Italic

About Cambay

Cambay is a sans serif family created to give Devanagari a libre typeface that harmonises with the Latin Cantarell. Pooja Saxena, who works in Bangalore, leads the project. Its four styles are Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic; the official notes describe the slanted styles as obliques that received only the optical corrections they could not do without, so they are sloped romans, not separately drawn cursives. The Latin letters in the specimen are humanist in build: open apertures in a, c and e, a single-storey g, low stroke contrast and a generous x-height. The fonts contain 924 glyphs across the Devanagari, Latin and Latin Extended subsets, so one family can set a document that mixes both scripts. Cambay is a static family, not a variable font, and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Cambay works

Bilingual Hindi and English pages

Devanagari and Latin share one design, so mixed-script paragraphs keep the same weight and rhythm.

Interface text in two scripts

Open apertures and low contrast in the Latin letters keep labels legible, and Bold marks active states.

Documents with emphasis

Regular, Bold and their obliques provide the four styles a word processor expects for body copy.

Companion to Cantarell

Projects that already use Cantarell for Latin can add Cambay for Devanagari without a visual break.

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 Cambay

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 Cambay 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: "Cambay";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Cambay-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Cambay";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Cambay-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Cambay";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Cambay-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Cambay";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Cambay-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Cambay 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=Cambay:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Obliques, not true italics

The italic files are slanted versions of the upright styles with minimal optical correction.

Two weights

Only Regular 400 and Bold 700 exist; there is no light or medium step between them.

Static files

Cambay ships as four separate TTF files and has no variable axis.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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