Mukta

Try Mukta

Weights and styles

• ExtraLight 200Mukta ExtraLight
• Light 300Mukta Light
• Regular 400Mukta Regular
• Medium 500Mukta Medium
• SemiBold 600Mukta SemiBold
• Bold 700Mukta Bold
• ExtraBold 800Mukta ExtraBold

About Mukta

Mukta is a humanist sans serif family with strokes of nearly even thickness, made to set Devanagari and Latin in one design. It is the libre version of Ek Type's multi-script project, whose aim is a harmonious family across Indian scripts in which no script's features dominate the others; sister families cover Gujarati, Gurmukhi and Tamil. Girish Dalvi and Yashodeep Gholap designed Mukta. In the specimen the Latin is slightly narrow, with stroke ends cut at an angle, a two-storey a, and a Q whose tail sweeps to the right. The family has seven weights, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold, as static files. Each holds 1,356 glyphs. There are no italics. Ek Type is a Mumbai collective of type designers, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Mukta works

Devanagari interfaces

Even stroke thickness and seven weights give app screens a full hierarchy in Devanagari, from labels to titles.

Mixed Devanagari and English text

Both scripts were designed together so that neither dominates a line that switches between them.

News and content apps

A slightly narrow Latin and compact Devanagari fit long headlines into phone-width columns.

Forms and government-style documents

Regular and Medium set fields and instructions clearly, with SemiBold or Bold for section labels.

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 Mukta

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 Mukta 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: "Mukta";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mukta-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mukta";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mukta-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mukta";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mukta-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mukta";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Mukta-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 3 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Mukta 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=Mukta:wght@200;300;400;500;600;700;800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

All seven styles are upright.

Static files

Mukta is distributed as seven separate fonts and is not a variable font.

Other scripts live in sister families

This family holds Devanagari and Latin. The Gujarati, Gurmukhi and Tamil designs of the project are separate families.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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