# Khand font

> A compact, monolinear headline sans for Devanagari and Latin from the Indian Type Foundry, in five weights.

Khand is a compact sans serif family for Devanagari and Latin from the Indian Type Foundry, developed mainly for headlines. Khand has five weights from Light 300 to Bold 700, no italic, and 1,035 glyphs. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits headlines, posters and short text in both scripts.

## Facts

- Classification: [Sans Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/sans-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: 1035
- Character sets: devanagari, latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-05
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Khand
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/khand
- Tagged for: Headlines, Posters, Bold, Condensed, Signage

## 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.

## 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

- **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.

## 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

### Is Khand free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Khand may be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and redistributed; it cannot be sold on its own, and a modified version keeps the same license.

### Who designed Khand?

Khand comes from the Indian Type Foundry. Sanchit Sawaria and Jyotish Sonowal designed the Devanagari, and Satya Rajpurohit designed the Latin.

### How many weights does Khand have?

Khand has five weights: Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700.

### Is Khand a variable font?

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

### Does Khand support Devanagari?

Yes. Khand was designed for Devanagari and Latin, with shortened vowel marks intended for headline setting.

### Which languages does Khand support?

Khand includes a Devanagari character set and the Latin letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Polish and Turkish, among others.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/khand (trendhub)