Mukta Malar

Try Mukta Malar

Weights and styles

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

About Mukta Malar

Mukta Malar is a sans serif for Tamil with a matching Latin, the Tamil member of Ek Type's Mukta family. Mukta is the openly licensed edition of a project that aims at one harmonious family across Indian scripts, built so that the traits of one script do not dominate the others and the fonts work alone or mixed. The design is humanist and close to monolinear; in the specimen the Latin is slightly narrow, with angled stroke ends and open shapes. There are seven weights, ExtraLight 200 to ExtraBold 800, all upright, each a static file with 791 glyphs. The official notes name Aadarsh Rajan as designer of Mukta Malar, while the name table also carries Girish Dalvi and Yashodeep Gholap, who designed the original Mukta. Ek Type is a Mumbai collective of type designers.

Where Mukta Malar works

Tamil news and article text

Regular and Medium set paragraphs, and the heavier weights up to ExtraBold handle headlines within the same family.

Tamil and English interfaces

Tamil and Latin were drawn as one system, so labels in either script share weight and proportion.

Sites that mix Indian scripts

Sibling Mukta families cover Devanagari, Gujarati and Gurmukhi with the same design, keeping multi-script pages consistent.

Hierarchy from one family

Seven steps from ExtraLight to ExtraBold give enough range for captions, body, subheads and titles.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, tamil. 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 Malar

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 Malar 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 Malar";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MuktaMalar-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mukta Malar";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MuktaMalar-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mukta Malar";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MuktaMalar-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mukta Malar";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MuktaMalar-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 Malar", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

No italics

Mukta Malar has seven upright weights and no italic. It is not a variable font.

Range stops short of Thin and Black

The lightest weight is ExtraLight 200 and the heaviest ExtraBold 800.

Credits vary between sources

The catalogue lists Ek Type, the official notes name Aadarsh Rajan, and the name table adds the two designers of the parent Mukta design.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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