Gotu

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Gotu Regular

About Gotu

Gotu is a high-contrast typeface for Devanagari and Latin with round curves, large loops and open counters. The official notes describe the Devanagari as written with a traditional canted nib and then loosened with expressive, irregular structures, and the Latin as a modulated sans serif that keeps a calligraphic stress. In the specimen the Latin strokes swell and thin clearly, stems flare slightly at their ends instead of carrying serifs, and letters such as a, t and u finish in a small flick. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 1,614 glyphs cover Devanagari, Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Ek Type, a Mumbai collective of type designers, leads the project; the font's name table credits Sarang Kulkarni and Kailash Malviya. Gotu is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Gotu works

Headlines mixing Devanagari and Latin

Both scripts share one calligraphic contrast, so a bilingual title keeps a single voice.

Invitations

Flared strokes and round loops give names and dates a pen-written formality without a script face.

Brand names

A word in the Latin capitals shows the thick-thin modulation that separates Gotu from an even-stroke sans.

Book and monograph titles

At title sizes the contrast and the flicked terminals are visible; with one weight, Gotu suits a cover line more than chapters of 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
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

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, 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 Gotu

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

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

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

Things to know

Regular only

Gotu has no bold or italic, so hierarchy has to come from size or colour.

Devanagari is the primary script

Google Fonts lists Devanagari as the family's primary script; the Latin accompanies it.

Vietnamese included

The Latin side extends to Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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