Martel Sans

Try Martel Sans

Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Martel Sans ExtraLight
• Light 300Martel Sans Light
• Regular 400Martel Sans Regular
• SemiBold 600Martel Sans SemiBold
• Bold 700Martel Sans Bold
• ExtraBold 800Martel Sans ExtraBold
• Black 900Martel Sans Black

About Martel Sans

Martel Sans is a sans serif family built for setting long documents in the Devanagari script, with a Latin alphabet drawn to accompany it. It is the low-contrast counterpart of the Martel serif design: the Devanagari is based on that earlier typeface, whose proportions follow traditional writing, while the Latin is an original drawing. In the Latin, strokes swell and taper slightly, the capitals are wide, and letters such as a, e and g keep open, humanist shapes. The family has seven weights, ExtraLight 200, Light 300, Regular 400, SemiBold 600, Bold 700, ExtraBold 800 and Black 900; there is no Medium 500 and no italic. These are static fonts with 715 glyphs covering Devanagari, Latin and Latin Extended. Dan Reynolds leads the project and designed both character sets with Mathieu Réguer. Martel Sans is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Martel Sans works

Long-form reading in Devanagari

The family was designed for immersive documents, so Regular and Light carry articles, reports and e-books in that script.

Bilingual documents

Devanagari and Latin come from the same designers and share weights, which keeps mixed paragraphs even in colour.

News and editorial sites

Black 900 and ExtraBold 800 headline a page while Regular sets the story, all within one family.

Interface text

The steps from ExtraLight to Black give labels, body copy and emphasis their own weight in an app localised for both scripts.

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

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, 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 Martel Sans

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 Martel 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.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Martel Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MartelSans-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Martel Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MartelSans-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Martel Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MartelSans-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Martel Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MartelSans-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 3 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Martel Sans 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=Martel+Sans:wght@200;300;400;600;700;800;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

Martel Sans is upright only in all seven weights.

No Medium weight

The weights jump from Regular 400 to SemiBold 600; there is no 500.

Static files

Each weight is a separate font file. Martel Sans is not a variable font.

FAQs

Collections with Martel Sans

• Fonts that support Devanagari

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

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