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Kumbh Sans

A geometric sans with a 3:2 cap-height to x-height ratio and two variable axes: weight and thin stroke.

Sans Serif 9 styles · variable by Saurabh Sharma OFL

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Kumbh Sans is a geometric sans serif by Saurabh Sharma, planned as a general-purpose face for web and mobile apps. Kumbh Sans is a variable font with nine weights from Thin 100 to Black 900 and a thin-stroke axis; it has no italic. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits interfaces and text.

Kumbh Sans font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Saurabh Sharma
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
9 9 weights
Variable font
Yes Thin Stroke 40–300, Weight 100–900
Glyphs
416
Languages checked
24 see the list
Last updated
version 1.005
Used for
Body textInterfacesGeometric

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Kumbh Sans

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Kumbh Sans; the download contains the complete files.

Kumbh Sans font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Kumbh Sans specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Thin 100Kumbh Sans Thin
  • ExtraLight 200Kumbh Sans ExtraLight
  • Light 300Kumbh Sans Light
  • Regular 400Kumbh Sans Regular
  • Medium 500Kumbh Sans Medium
  • SemiBold 600Kumbh Sans SemiBold
  • Bold 700Kumbh Sans Bold
  • ExtraBold 800Kumbh Sans ExtraBold
  • Black 900Kumbh Sans Black

Kumbh Sans is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Kumbh Sans

Kumbh Sans is a geometric sans serif typeface meant as a workhorse for websites and mobile apps. Its round letters are built on near circles, with a slight difference between thick and thin strokes, and the capitals stand to the lowercase in a ratio of 3:2, a proportion its designer chose for legibility across sizes. The lowercase a is two-storey, which keeps words distinct in running text. Saurabh Sharma designed the family, which has been a variable font since June 2021. It has two axes: weight, from 100 to 900, and Thin Stroke (YOPQ), from 40 to 300, which changes the thickness of the thin strokes. The weight axis gives nine named weights from Thin to Black. There is no italic. The single font file holds 416 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended, along with some mathematical and other symbols.

Where Kumbh Sans works

Web and mobile interfaces
The 3:2 ratio of capitals to lowercase keeps small labels and form fields clear on phone screens.
Landing pages
Black 900 for a headline and Regular 400 for the paragraph beneath come from one variable file.
Body text on product sites
A two-storey a and round, open letters hold up in paragraphs as well as in buttons.
Headings with more contrast
Lowering the Thin Stroke axis towards 40 thins the hairlines while the stems stay heavy, which sharpens large titles.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 416 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

Character sets found in the files: 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2020 The KumbhSans Project Authors (https://github.com/xconsau/KumbhSans)

What the license allows

  • 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.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Kumbh Sans

Aref Ruqaa Serif

Kumbh Sans is sans serif and Aref Ruqaa is serif (2 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Bevan Slab Serif

Kumbh Sans is sans serif and Bevan is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Anonymous Pro Monospace

Anonymous Pro is a monospace family (2 weights) for code and figures next to Kumbh Sans as the text face.

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 Kumbh Sans 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Kumbh Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/KumbhSans-VariableFont_YOPQ%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Kumbh Sans with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

No italic
Kumbh Sans has upright styles only.
A second axis: Thin Stroke
Besides weight, the font has a YOPQ axis from 40 to 300 with a default of 300. It needs font-variation-settings in CSS.
One file
A single variable file carries all nine weights.
Latin only
Vietnamese, Cyrillic and Greek are not covered.

FAQs

Is Kumbh Sans free for commercial use?

Yes. Kumbh Sans is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Kumbh Sans?

Kumbh Sans was designed by Saurabh Sharma. The copyright notice names The KumbhSans Project Authors.

How many weights does Kumbh Sans have?

Kumbh Sans has nine weights, from Thin 100 to Black 900. There is no italic.

Is Kumbh Sans a variable font?

Yes. Kumbh Sans is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900 and a Thin Stroke (YOPQ) axis from 40 to 300.

Which languages does Kumbh Sans support?

Kumbh Sans includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Polish, Czech and Turkish. Vietnamese, Cyrillic and Greek are not covered.

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