Pragati Narrow

Try Pragati Narrow

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Pragati Narrow Regular
• Bold 700Pragati Narrow Bold

About Pragati Narrow

Pragati Narrow is a condensed sans serif made so that Devanagari text has a partner for the Latin family Archivo Narrow. Its strokes end in vertical and horizontal cuts, and it was developed with screen use in mind. The Devanagari was drawn by Pablo Cosgaya, Marcela Romero and Nicolás Silva; the Latin was derived from Chivo, a design by Héctor Gatti, and the official notes relate it to American typefaces of the late nineteenth century. In the specimen the Latin is a tightly fitted grotesque with a tall lowercase and compact rounds. The family has two static fonts, Regular 400 and Bold 700, with 1,148 glyphs each and no italics. Pragati is the Hindi word for progress. Omnibus-Type, a foundry based in Argentina, leads the project and worked on it as a team.

Where Pragati Narrow works

Devanagari headlines in tight columns

Narrow Devanagari letters fit more of a headline on one line of a mobile news page.

Interfaces in Devanagari and Latin

The Latin and Devanagari share weight and width, so menu labels in both scripts look related.

Tables, listings and timetables

Condensed forms with flat stroke endings save width where many columns have to fit.

A Devanagari partner for Archivo Narrow

The family was designed as that Latin family's complement, so the two can be combined on one site.

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 Pragati Narrow

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

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

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

Things to know

Two weights only

Pragati Narrow has Regular and Bold. There are no italics and no intermediate weights, and it is not a variable font.

A normal width was planned

The official notes mention four Narrow and four Normal styles for the Latin, the latter still in development; this family holds the two narrow Devanagari fonts.

Made for screens

The designers describe the family as developed for use as a web font and a desktop font.

FAQs

Collections with Pragati Narrow

• Narrow sans-serif fonts for tables and tight layouts

  Condensed and semi-condensed text families that fit more characters per line in tables, sidebars, forms and mobile screens.

Similar fonts

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