Palanquin Dark

Try Palanquin Dark

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Palanquin Dark Regular
• Medium 500Palanquin Dark Medium
• SemiBold 600Palanquin Dark SemiBold
• Bold 700Palanquin Dark Bold

About Palanquin Dark

Palanquin Dark is a sans serif for the Latin and Devanagari scripts, the dark, display half of the Palanquin superfamily. Its weights are named Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, yet the specimen shows that even the Regular is drawn with thick strokes, so the whole family sits at the heavy end and the steps between weights are small. The letters have a humanist build with open shapes, and the curves stay smooth despite the weight. According to the official description, the Devanagari letters are monolinear and were drawn side by side with the Latin, while the lighter Palanquin family covers text sizes. There are four static files, no italics and no variable version. The 1,225 glyphs cover Devanagari, Latin and Latin Extended. Pria Ravichandran leads the project, and the fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Palanquin Dark works

Headlines in Devanagari and Latin

Both scripts were designed together, so a heavy title keeps the same colour in either one.

Titles above Palanquin text

Palanquin Dark is the display member of the superfamily and shares its letter shapes with the lighter text family.

Buttons and badges

Thick strokes at every weight keep a short label visible on a coloured background.

Posters and banners

Bold 700 sets dense, dark words, and the smaller steps down to Regular allow fine adjustment of the weight.

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 Dark

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 Dark 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 Dark";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PalanquinDark-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Palanquin Dark";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PalanquinDark-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Palanquin Dark";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PalanquinDark-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Palanquin Dark";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PalanquinDark-SemiBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 600;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Regular is already heavy

The four weights are numbered 400 to 700, but in the specimen all of them look bold. Light text weights belong to the separate Palanquin family.

No italics

Palanquin Dark has upright styles only.

Four static files

Palanquin Dark is not a variable font; each weight is a separate TTF file.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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