# Cambay font

> A Devanagari and Latin sans serif in Regular and Bold with obliques, drawn to sit beside Cantarell.

Cambay is a sans serif family by Pooja Saxena that adds Devanagari to a Latin design matching Cantarell. Cambay has two weights, Regular and Bold, each with a slanted companion, four styles in total and 924 glyphs. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits Hindi and English text set side by side.

## Facts

- Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-serif)
- Designed by: Pooja Saxena
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 4 (Regular 400, Bold 700; with italics)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 924
- Character sets: devanagari, latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-11
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cambay
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/cambay
- Tagged for: Body text, Interfaces, Editorial

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2014 Pooja Saxena (www.poojasaxena.in)

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Cambay free for commercial use?

Yes. Cambay is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. It may not be sold by itself, and a modified version has to keep the same license.

### Who designed Cambay?

Cambay is the work of Pooja Saxena, who leads the project from Bangalore in India.

### How many weights does Cambay have?

Cambay has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700. Each has an oblique, which gives four styles.

### Does Cambay support Hindi?

Cambay includes a Devanagari character set, the script used to write Hindi, together with Latin and Latin Extended.

### Is Cambay a variable font?

No. Cambay is distributed as four static font files.

### What fonts pair well with Cambay?

Cambay was drawn to match Cantarell, so that family is the natural partner for Latin-only passages.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/cambay (trendhub)