Mali

Try Mali

Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Mali ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Mali Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Mali Regular Italic
• Medium 500Mali Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Mali SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Mali Bold Bold Italic

About Mali

Mali is a handwriting family whose letters look printed by hand with a round-tipped pen: strokes keep one thickness, ends are rounded, and the letters stand upright and unconnected. Small irregularities remain, such as a single-storey a and g and a capital I with bars at top and bottom. According to the official description the design took a sixth grader's handwriting as its model. Mali is built as a full family: six weights, ExtraLight 200, Light 300, Regular 400, Medium 500, SemiBold 600 and Bold 700, each with an italic, 12 styles in all. The 773 glyphs cover Thai alongside Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. The fonts are static files, not a variable font. Cadson Demak publishes Mali under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and the font's name table credits Kitiyaporn Chalermlarp of Katatrad Aksorn as designer.

Where Mali works

Children's books and worksheets

Upright, unconnected letters with a single-storey a resemble school print, which fits early-reader pages and classroom handouts.

Thai and English side by side

Thai and Latin are drawn in the same hand, so a bilingual card, menu or label keeps one voice across both scripts.

Informal headings with hierarchy

Six weights let a Bold title, a Regular line and an ExtraLight note share one hand-drawn look.

Speech bubbles and captions

An italic in every weight adds emphasis inside comics, storyboards and annotated screenshots.

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
• Vietnamese

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, thai, vietnamese. 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 Mali

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 Mali 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: "Mali";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mali-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mali";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mali-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mali";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mali-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mali";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mali-ExtraLightItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 8 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Mali", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Mali 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=Mali:ital,wght@0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;1,200;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Twelve static files

Each of the 12 styles is a separate font file; the package has no variable version.

Thai is included

Thai is covered together with Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Cyrillic and Greek are not among the character sets.

Designer credit differs by source

The official listing credits Cadson Demak, while the font's name table names Kitiyaporn Chalermlarp and Katatrad Aksorn Co., Ltd.

FAQs

Collections with Mali

• Fonts for children and early readers

  Schoolbook sans-serifs, print handwriting and rounded display faces for worksheets, picture books and classroom materials.

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