Kurale

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Kurale Regular

About Kurale

Kurale is a serif typeface whose defining detail is the curl. Where a conventional serif face ends a stroke with a bracket or a ball, Kurale rolls it into a small hook: the specimen shows this on a, c, f, r and y, on the spur of the capital G and in the looped k and ampersand. Serifs are short and rounded, contrast is moderate, and the lowercase a is single-storey, which adds to the gentle, slightly cursive tone. The official notes say Kurale derives from Gabriela, that the curls link letters into even word shapes, and that the Devanagari was drawn as a modulated design to harmonise with the Latin. Eduardo Tunni, a type designer in Buenos Aires, leads the project. The single Regular style has 879 glyphs across Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended and Devanagari.

Where Kurale works

Headlines with a soft voice

At large sizes the curled terminals on a, c, r and y become the visible character of a title.

Short reading passages

The official notes say Kurale reads well in small bodies of text, where the curls even out the texture.

Sites in Latin, Cyrillic and Devanagari

Three scripts in one font keep the Cyrillic, Devanagari and Latin versions of a page in the same style.

Food, craft and children's branding

Rounded serifs and hooked strokes give a name a friendly look without becoming a script.

Book covers and chapter openers

A single-storey a and looped k set a storybook tone for titles.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, 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 Kurale

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

body {
  font-family: "Kurale", serif;
}

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

Things to know

One style

Kurale is Regular 400 only. It has no italic and no bold, which limits it in long structured text.

No Greek or Vietnamese

Cyrillic and Devanagari are covered next to Latin; Greek and Vietnamese are not.

Static file

Kurale is not a variable font.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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