Poppins

Try Poppins

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Poppins Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Poppins ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Poppins Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Poppins Regular Italic
• Medium 500Poppins Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Poppins SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Poppins Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Poppins ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Poppins Black Black Italic

About Poppins

Poppins is a geometric sans serif in which both the Latin and the Devanagari letters are constructed from simple shapes, circles above all. Strokes are close to a single thickness, with small optical corrections at the joints so that text keeps an even colour. The Latin x-height is set high, and the capitals are shorter than the ascenders, whose height matches the Devanagari base characters. Indian Type Foundry developed the project: Ninad Kale drew the initial Devanagari and Jonny Pinhorn the initial Latin, and the studio team later refined the design and extended it with further weights and italics. The family now has nine weights from Thin to Black with italics, 18 static styles, and 1,059 glyphs in the devanagari, latin and latin-ext subsets. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Poppins works

Brand identities

Round bowls and nine weights give a logo, its headlines and its small print one consistent geometric voice.

Websites and apps

The high x-height keeps navigation, buttons and card titles legible at interface sizes.

Bilingual Latin and Devanagari layouts

Both scripts were drawn on the same geometry and matched in height, so mixed lines look even.

Presentation slides

Weights from Thin 100 to Black 900 create clear contrast between a title, a figure and a footnote.

Short marketing text

Regular and Medium with their italics handle introductions, captions and pull quotes.

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 Poppins

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 Poppins 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: "Poppins";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Poppins-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Poppins";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Poppins-BlackItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Poppins";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Poppins-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Poppins";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Poppins-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 14 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Poppins 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=Poppins:ital,wght@0,100;0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;0,800;0,900;1,100;1,200;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700;1,800;1,900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Static files, not variable

The package holds 18 separate TTF files, one for each weight and italic. There is no variable font in it.

Devanagari is part of the family

The fonts contain a Devanagari character set alongside Latin and Latin Extended.

No Cyrillic, Greek or Vietnamese

Coverage stops at the devanagari, latin and latin-ext subsets.

Capitals are short

Latin capitals are lower than the ascenders, a result of matching the Latin proportions to the Devanagari.

FAQs

Collections with Poppins

• Fonts for presentations and slides

  Sans-serif and slab-serif families that stay readable on a projector or a shared screen, with strong bolds for slide titles.

• Geometric sans-serif fonts

  Sans-serif families built on circles, straight lines and even strokes, from 1920s-inspired designs to current brand typefaces.

• Font families with nine weights and italics

  Complete families running from Thin to Black with an italic for every weight: eighteen styles for a full typographic system.

• Fonts that support Turkish

  Open-license families that contain every letter of the Turkish alphabet, including dotted and dotless i, across text, display and script styles.

• Fonts that support Devanagari

  Open-license families for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and other Devanagari-script languages, each with Latin letters in the same files.

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