Mina

Try Mina

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Mina Regular
• Bold 700Mina Bold

About Mina

Mina is a geometric sans serif family that sets Bengali (Bangla) and Latin together. The project started by extending Exo, a Latin design by Natanael Gama, and the Latin letters in the specimen show that origin: bowls are rounded rectangles, strokes keep one thickness, the s is built from nearly straight segments, and a and g are open, squared forms. The makers describe Mina as a display face that also works at small to intermediate text sizes. There are two static styles, Regular 400 and Bold 700, and no italic. The 915 glyphs hold the Bengali script with Latin and Latin Extended, enough for languages such as Turkish, Polish and Czech. Suman Bhandary, Natanael Gama and Mooniak are credited, and the fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Mina works

Bangla headlines

The geometric construction was planned first of all as a display style for the Bengali script.

Bilingual Bangla and English layouts

Both scripts sit in the same files, so a heading and its translation match in stroke and proportion.

App screens with short text

The makers state that Mina holds up at small to intermediate sizes, which covers labels and short descriptions.

Technology branding

Rounded-rectangle bowls inherited from Exo give a wordmark a squared, engineered outline.

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
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

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

Character sets found in the files: bengali, 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 Mina

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

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

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

Things to know

Regular and Bold only

Mina has no light or medium cuts and no italic. Both styles are static files; it is not a variable font.

Built on Exo

The Latin letters extend Exo, and the copyright notice still records Exo as a reserved font name.

Romanian is incomplete

Latin Extended is present, but the comma-accented ț used in Romanian is not in the font.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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