Padauk

Try Padauk

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Padauk Regular
• Bold 700Padauk Bold

About Padauk

Padauk is a font family from SIL International whose purpose is to write the Myanmar script. The official description says it covers every Myanmar character defined in Unicode, which extends its use beyond Burmese to minority languages, in both local and Burmese rendering styles. The same source explains that the full downloads carry Graphite rules for the most faithful rendering in Graphite-capable applications such as LibreOffice, and that OpenType tables allow basic rendering in other software, including web browsers. The Latin shown in the specimen is a plain, upright sans serif of even stroke weight with a two-storey a and flat stroke ends. There are two static styles, Regular and Bold, and 760 glyphs. The Latin part is limited to the basic Latin subset. The font files name Debbi Hosken and Becca Hirsbrunner Spalinger as designers.

Where Padauk works

Myanmar-script text on the web

OpenType tables in the fonts let browsers shape Myanmar script, so pages can be set in Padauk.

Minority-language publishing

The makers state that all Myanmar characters in Unicode are covered, including letters used by minority languages.

Office documents

In Graphite-capable software such as LibreOffice the fonts' Graphite rules give the fullest rendering of the script.

Interface text in Myanmar script

Regular and Bold give labels and their emphasised states from one family.

Mixed Myanmar and English copy

A plain Latin of even stroke weight is built in for English words, figures and punctuation.

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
• Estonian

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, myanmar. 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 Padauk

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

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

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

Things to know

Two styles, no italic

Padauk has Regular 400 and Bold 700 only.

Rendering depends on the software

According to the official notes, full fidelity needs a Graphite-capable application; elsewhere OpenType gives a basic rendering.

Latin is basic

Next to Myanmar, only the basic Latin subset is present; the Latin Extended set is not included.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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