Modak

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Modak Regular

About Modak

Modak is a display typeface in which every letter is inflated until almost no white is left inside it. In the Latin specimen the bowls of a, e, o and d are reduced to short slits and commas of space, corners are fully rounded, and neighbouring letters nearly touch. According to the official notes the project started as hand-sketched heavy Devanagari letters whose curves merged into one another. Turning that into a font meant drawing several vowel signs to fit each consonant, letting the signs that follow a consonant overlap it, and redrawing every conjunct as one shape instead of assembling it from a pair of separate glyphs. The notes name Sarang Kulkarni and Maithili Shingre for the Devanagari and Noopur Datye for the Latin, with support from Girish Dalvi. The single Regular style contains 1,228 glyphs.

Where Modak works

Devanagari headlines

The Devanagari character set, with conjuncts drawn as single shapes, sets short titles in a soft, heavy voice.

Sweets, snacks and toy packaging

Rounded, puffed-up letters suggest something soft and edible, in line with the makers' own word for the design: sweet.

Children's titles

Chubby forms without sharp corners suit book covers, game logos and party graphics.

Bilingual wordmarks

Latin and Devanagari were drawn to the same weight, so a brand name matches in each script.

Stickers and badges

A word or two fills a compact area almost solidly, which reads well on a small round sticker.

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 Modak

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 Modak 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: "Modak";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Modak-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Modak 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=Modak&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Only for large sizes

The counters are thin slits. At small sizes they fill in and the letters turn into blobs.

One style

Modak has a single style, Regular 400, and it is extremely heavy. There is no lighter companion.

Latin and Devanagari only

The subsets are Devanagari, Latin and Latin Extended. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Collections with Modak

• 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

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