Jaldi

Try Jaldi

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Jaldi Regular
• Bold 700Jaldi Bold

About Jaldi

Jaldi is a sans serif family for Devanagari and Latin with subtly rounded stroke corners. Its name is the Hindi word for soon, echoing Asap, the Latin family it was developed to match. Nicolas Silva and Pablo Cosgaya designed it for the Argentine foundry Omnibus-Type with screen reading and web use in mind. The feature that sets it apart is a standardised character width across styles: a letter occupies the same space in Regular and in Bold, so a line keeps its length when the weight is switched. In the specimen the Latin is plain and open, with softened ends on stems, a two-storey a and a one-storey g. The official notes add that Asap itself derives from Ancha by Pablo Cosgaya and Hector Gatti with Andres Torresi. Jaldi has two styles and 1,222 glyphs across the Devanagari, Latin and Latin Extended subsets.

Where Jaldi works

Hover and active states in menus

Bold takes the same width as Regular, so a menu item can change weight without shifting its neighbours.

Hindi and English interfaces

Devanagari and Latin are designed together for screen reading, with one family for both scripts.

Tables with highlighted rows

Equal widths across weights keep columns aligned when a row is set in Bold.

Web articles in Devanagari

The family was developed as a webfont, and softly rounded corners give paragraphs a gentle texture.

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 Jaldi

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 Jaldi 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: "Jaldi";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Jaldi-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Jaldi";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Jaldi-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Same widths in both weights

Characters keep their advance width between Regular and Bold, which prevents text from reflowing.

No italics

Jaldi consists of Regular 400 and Bold 700 only.

Static files

The two styles are separate TTF files; there is no variable axis.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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