Palanquin

Try Palanquin

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Palanquin Thin
• ExtraLight 200Palanquin ExtraLight
• Light 300Palanquin Light
• Regular 400Palanquin Regular
• Medium 500Palanquin Medium
• SemiBold 600Palanquin SemiBold
• Bold 700Palanquin Bold

About Palanquin

Palanquin is a sans serif text family in which Devanagari and Latin were drawn together instead of one being fitted to the other. The Devanagari is monolinear, and the Latin in the specimen is a humanist sans with open shapes, a moderate lowercase height and long, clean ascenders. The family has seven text weights, from Thin 100 to Bold 700, all upright; each is a static file with 1,226 glyphs covering Devanagari, Latin and Latin Extended. For darker settings the designer made a separate display family, Palanquin Dark, with details adjusted to the heavier colour; together the two are described as a superfamily. Pria Ravichandran, a type designer from India, leads the project and holds the copyright. The stated aim is a balance between typographic convention and a touch of liveliness.

Where Palanquin works

Text set in Devanagari and Latin

Both scripts were designed at the same time, so mixed paragraphs keep one texture.

Reading text on screens

Regular and Medium serve body copy, and the family is described by its designer as made for the digital age.

Light interface text

Thin, ExtraLight and Light give large numbers and titles a fine line, which few Devanagari families offer.

Headings with Palanquin Dark

The heavier sibling family takes over for display sizes while Palanquin sets the text beneath.

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 Palanquin

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 Palanquin 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: "Palanquin";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Palanquin-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Palanquin";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Palanquin-ExtraLight.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 200;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Palanquin";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Palanquin-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Palanquin";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Palanquin-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 3 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Palanquin 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=Palanquin:wght@100;200;300;400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italics

Palanquin has seven upright weights. There is no italic, and it is not a variable font.

Nothing heavier than Bold

Styles above 700 are found in the separate Palanquin Dark family, not in Palanquin.

Seven separate files

Each weight is its own TTF, so a page should load only the weights it uses.

FAQs

Collections with Palanquin

• 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

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