Mogra

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Mogra Regular

About Mogra

Mogra is a display typeface covering the Gujarati and Latin writing systems. Its official notes describe letterforms taken from a broad-nibbed marker: the pen keeps a fairly constant angle, while the ink seems to swell at the ends of strokes, and the Gujarati out-stroke is given particular weight. The Latin letters in the specimen follow the same logic. They are heavy and slanted, with blunt rounded terminals, an a and g in simple handwritten forms, and stroke ends that fatten like a pressed marker tip. Counters are small, so the texture is dark. The family has one Regular style and no variable axis. Its 835 glyphs include the Gujarati character set together with Latin and most of Latin Extended. Lipi Raval, who works as a type designer in Ahmedabad, leads the project, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Mogra works

Gujarati headlines

The weighted out-strokes described in the official notes give Gujarati titles a hand-lettered marker look.

Bilingual posters and signs

Gujarati and Latin share one pen logic, so a shop sign or festival poster can show both scripts in one voice.

Food and snack packaging

Dark, rounded, slanted letters stand out on wrappers and boxes at a glance.

Social media titles

A few heavy words set large hold their shape over photographs and coloured backgrounds.

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: Gujarati. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: gujarati, 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 Mogra

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Mogra has a single Regular cut. It already looks heavy and slanted; there is no lighter, bolder or upright version.

Dense texture

Small counters make long lines dark, which keeps the face to short display settings.

Gujarati needs shaping support

Conjuncts and vowel signs are formed by rules in the font, so software must apply complex-script shaping.

FAQs

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