Laila

Try Laila

Weights and styles

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

About Laila

Laila is an informal family for Devanagari and Latin published by Indian Type Foundry. The official notes describe it as a sans serif with brush terminals, and the specimen bears that out: strokes keep nearly the same thickness and then widen slightly at their ends, as a brush does when it lifts. The Latin lowercase is tall with open counters, the Q has a looped tail and the ampersand is drawn as a joined E and t. According to the notes, the Devanagari is more fluid, is sized taller than the Latin lowercase but shorter than the capitals, and is drawn slightly lighter so that both scripts make an even grey in a paragraph. Laila has five weights, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, with no italics, and 914 glyphs. Hitesh Malaviya drew the Devanagari and Jonny Pinhorn the Latin.

Where Laila works

Hindi and English headlines together

Devanagari and Latin were balanced to the same colour, so a bilingual heading does not look patched from two fonts.

Friendly brand voices

Brush-shaped endings soften the letters, which fits food, lifestyle and children's brands that want a warm tone.

Packaging and labels

Five weights from Light to Bold separate a product name, a descriptor and small print within one family.

Short text blocks

The tall lowercase and open counters hold up in captions, intros and app screens of a few lines.

Social media cards

SemiBold and Bold give a short quote enough weight to sit over a coloured background.

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
• 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. 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 Laila

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

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

Things to know

No italics

All five styles are upright. Emphasis comes from a heavier weight.

Listed as a serif in the source catalogue

The source catalogue files Laila under serif, while its own notes call the design a sans serif with brush terminals. The specimen shows flared endings, not separate serifs.

Latin coverage is Western European

Beside Devanagari, the fonts include the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and the Nordic languages. The extended Latin set is incomplete.

FAQs

Collections with Laila

• Fonts that support Devanagari

  Open-license families for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and other Devanagari-script languages, each with Latin letters in the same files.

Similar fonts

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