Halant

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Weights and styles

• Light 300Halant Light
• Regular 400Halant Regular
• Medium 500Halant Medium
• SemiBold 600Halant SemiBold
• Bold 700Halant Bold

About Halant

Halant is a serif family that supports two scripts, Devanagari and Latin. The Latin letters in the specimen have moderate contrast, wedge-shaped serifs and compact, sturdy proportions, and the figures are lining. Five static weights are supplied, from Light 300 to Bold 700, and there is no italic. The fonts hold 915 glyphs, far more than the Latin alphabet alone would need. Indian Type Foundry released Halant as an open source family in 2014. Sources differ on the individual designers: the official description credits Vivek Sadamate and Ninad Kale with the Devanagari and Jonny Pinhorn with the Latin, while the name table inside the font names Hitesh Malaviya for Devanagari and Satya Rajpurohit for Latin. The Latin coverage is Western European; the Latin Extended subset is not part of the fonts.

Where Halant works

Pages that mix Devanagari and Latin

Both scripts are drawn in the same five weights, so mixed lines keep an even colour.

Editorial text

Regular and Medium supply a text weight and a slightly darker one for print and screen reading.

Headings and subheads

SemiBold and Bold sharpen the wedge serifs into heads that still match the text weights.

Light introductions and quotes

Light 300 offers a quieter voice for standfirsts and pull quotes set larger than the text.

Western European languages

The Latin part includes the letters for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and the Nordic languages.

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
• 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. 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 Halant

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 Halant 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: "Halant";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Halant-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Halant";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Halant-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Halant";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Halant-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Halant";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Halant-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 1 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Halant 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=Halant:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

Halant has five upright styles only. Emphasis has to come from a change of weight.

Static files

Halant is not a variable font; each weight is a separate file.

Latin Extended is not included

The subsets are Devanagari and Latin. Letters for languages such as Polish, Czech or Turkish are not complete.

FAQs

Collections with Halant

• Fonts that support Devanagari

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

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