# Halant font

> Devanagari and Latin serif family in five weights from Light to Bold, published by Indian Type Foundry.

Halant is a serif typeface family from Indian Type Foundry that pairs Devanagari with Latin in one design. Halant comes in five weights, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, as static fonts without italics, and holds 915 glyphs. Halant is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits bilingual text, editorial pages and headings.

## Facts

- Classification: [Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/serif)
- Designed by: Indian Type Foundry
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 5 (Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600, Bold 700)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 915
- Character sets: devanagari, latin
- Last updated: 2025-09-10
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Halant
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/halant
- Tagged for: Body text, Editorial

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2014, Indian Type Foundry (info@indiantypefoundry.com).

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

- **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.

## 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

### Is Halant free for commercial use?

Yes. Halant is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

### Who designed Halant?

Halant is credited to Indian Type Foundry. The official description names Vivek Sadamate and Ninad Kale for the Devanagari and Jonny Pinhorn for the Latin, whereas the font's name table lists Hitesh Malaviya and Satya Rajpurohit.

### How many weights does Halant have?

Halant has five weights: Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700. There are no italics.

### Does Halant support Devanagari?

Yes. Halant contains a Devanagari character set alongside Latin, and both are available in all five weights.

### Is Halant a variable font?

No. Halant is not a variable font; it is distributed as five static files.

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