Hind Vadodara

Try Hind Vadodara

Weights and styles

• Light 300Hind Vadodara Light
• Regular 400Hind Vadodara Regular
• Medium 500Hind Vadodara Medium
• SemiBold 600Hind Vadodara SemiBold
• Bold 700Hind Vadodara Bold

About Hind Vadodara

Hind Vadodara is a sans serif for Gujarati with a matching Latin, one of nine families in Indian Type Foundry's Hind Multi-Script system, each serving a different South Asian writing system. The letterforms have a humanist skeleton and strokes of almost even thickness that end in flat horizontal or vertical cuts, which keeps the spaces between characters clean; apertures are open, as the Latin in the specimen shows. Gujarati base characters are scaled to sit at about the height of the Latin capitals, and grow slightly with weight. The family has five weights, Light 300 to Bold 700, without italics, and each font has 839 glyphs, including Gujarati conjuncts. Hitesh Malaviya designed it for the foundry, which the official notes say first published the fonts in 2015. The name refers to Vadodara, a city in Gujarat.

Where Hind Vadodara works

Gujarati app and web interfaces

The family was developed for user interface design: flat stroke endings and open apertures keep small labels and menu items clear.

Bilingual Gujarati and English screens

Gujarati characters are scaled to the Latin capital height, so the two scripts share a line without one looking larger.

Body text on screens

Light and Regular carry paragraphs, with Medium, SemiBold and Bold for subheads and emphasis.

Signs and wayfinding in Gujarat

Near-monolinear strokes and clear counters hold their shape on signs read at a distance.

Products that span several Indian scripts

Sibling Hind families for other scripts share the same design, so a product can change script and keep one visual voice.

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: Gujarati. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: gujarati, 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 Hind Vadodara

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 Hind Vadodara 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: "Hind Vadodara";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/HindVadodara-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hind Vadodara";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/HindVadodara-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hind Vadodara";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/HindVadodara-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hind Vadodara";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/HindVadodara-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: "Hind Vadodara", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

No italics

Hind Vadodara has five upright weights and no italic styles. It is not a variable font; each weight is a separate TTF file.

Glyph count in the notes differs

The official description gives a total of 851 per font; the files measured for this page hold 839 glyphs.

Latin coverage

The Latin part includes the Latin Extended subset, with letters for Western and Central European languages.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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