Manjari

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Weights and styles

• Thin 100Manjari Thin
• Regular 400Manjari Regular
• Bold 700Manjari Bold

About Manjari

Manjari is a sans serif family for Malayalam and Latin. Every stroke ends in a round cap, and the Latin letters in the specimen are built on wide circles: a, b, d, o and p share the same bowl, and the a is the single-storey form. Stroke thickness stays even throughout. The name means pearl in Malayalam and is also the name of a poetic metre, and the official notes describe the family as suitable for both body text and titles. There are three upright weights, Thin 100, Regular 400 and Bold 700, with no italics and no variable font. Each file holds 912 glyphs covering Malayalam, Latin and Latin Extended. Santhosh Thottingal designed Manjari and the name table gives SMC as manufacturer. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Manjari works

Malayalam text with English terms

Both scripts share round stroke ends and even thickness, so mixed lines keep one texture.

Titles in Thin

Thin 100 draws the round letterforms as fine lines for large headings and cover text.

Friendly interface copy

Round caps and circular bowls soften buttons, onboarding screens and messages.

Posters and invitations

Bold 700 keeps the rounded shapes readable at a distance for event 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
• Slovenian
• Estonian

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, malayalam. 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 Manjari

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 Manjari 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: "Manjari";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Manjari-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Manjari";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Manjari-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Manjari";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Manjari-Thin.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Manjari 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=Manjari:wght@100;400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Three widely spaced weights

The family jumps from Thin 100 to Regular 400 to Bold 700, with nothing in between.

No italics

All three fonts are upright.

One rare French letter missing

The Latin set covers French except for the rare capital Ÿ.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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