Kavivanar

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Kavivanar Regular

About Kavivanar

Kavivanar is a handwriting typeface that supports Tamil and Latin in a single slanted style. The incline reflects a common habit in Tamil handwriting, and the Tamil letterforms draw on a manuscript written by M. A. Azeez (1948-2002), known as Kavivanar, a poet and educator from Sri Lanka's east coast. In the Latin specimen the letters are narrow and lean to the right, strokes end in rounded tips, and a slight swelling on the downstrokes suggests a pen held at a constant angle. The lowercase a is single-storey, and capitals stay simple, without loops or swashes. Kavivanar has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 471 glyphs cover the Tamil script together with Latin and Latin Extended. Tharique Azeez, who works as a type designer in Sri Lanka, leads the project, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Kavivanar works

Headings in Tamil and Latin

Both scripts share the same slant and stroke, so a heading that mixes them keeps one hand.

Poetry and quotations

The pen stress inherited from a poet's manuscript gives a few lines of verse the texture of writing.

Greeting cards and notes

Rounded stroke ends and plain capitals read as a quick personal note.

Captions for social posts

The narrow letters fit a sentence-length caption into a small graphic.

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
• Latvian
• Estonian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Tamil. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, tamil. 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 Kavivanar

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

body {
  font-family: "Kavivanar", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

Always slanted

The one Regular style is itself inclined. There is no upright version and no separate italic or bold.

Tamil script included

Tamil is part of the same file as the Latin letters, 471 glyphs in total.

Slightly heavy for a text face

The official notes call the design somewhat bold, which helps headings but makes long passages dense.

FAQs

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