Khand

Try Khand

Weights and styles

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

About Khand

Khand is a family of narrow, monolinear sans serif fonts built on a modular system, so that its shapes share the same straight sides and tight curves. Counters are kept very open. In the Latin, the round letters are squared off into tall rectangles, and the arms of the K meet at a point beside the stem. In the Devanagari, the base characters fill most of the vertical space while the vowel marks above and below are shortened, which allows headline lines to be stacked closely. Five weights run from Light 300 to Bold 700; the lighter ones can carry short paragraphs, the heavier ones are tuned for headlines and single words. There is no italic, and the fonts are static. Each holds 1,035 glyphs. Sanchit Sawaria and Jyotish Sonowal designed the Devanagari and Satya Rajpurohit the Latin.

Where Khand works

Headlines in Devanagari and English

Both scripts follow one modular system, so a bilingual headline keeps a single width and weight.

Posters and banners

Narrow letters fit a long title into one line, and SemiBold and Bold carry it at a distance.

Closely stacked titles

Shortened Devanagari vowel marks let two or three headline lines sit near each other.

Labels and signage

Open counters keep the compact letters distinct on signs, tickets and scoreboards.

Short intro paragraphs

Light and Regular are suited to a few lines of running text under a Khand headline.

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: 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. 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 Khand

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

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

Things to know

No italic

Khand has five upright styles and no italic.

Static files

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

Two scripts

The character sets are Devanagari, Latin and Latin Extended. Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese are not included.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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