Sarala

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Sarala Regular
• Bold 700Sarala Bold

About Sarala

Sarala is a humanist sans serif family covering the Devanagari and Latin scripts. The official notes say it builds on Telex, an earlier Latin text sans, and was planned as a web font that reads comfortably at ordinary text sizes; it started from shapes fitted to the pixel grid and grew into a general-purpose face with low contrast, open counters and wide proportions. The specimen agrees: strokes are nearly even, the openings of a, c and e are wide, and the letters are generously broad. Two weights are provided, Regular 400 and Bold 700, without italics, and the family is not a variable font. Its 822 glyphs cover Devanagari along with Latin and Latin Extended. The notes credit two designers, Andrés Torresi and Carolina Giovagnoli, working for HT Fonts; the designer field lists HT Fonts and Andres Torresi. Sarala is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Sarala works

Devanagari and Latin on one page

Both scripts were designed as one family, so mixed-script paragraphs keep an even colour.

Article text on the web

Open counters and low contrast were chosen for legibility at normal reading sizes on screen.

Interface labels

Wide, even-stroked letters stay distinct in buttons, forms and navigation.

Headings in Bold

Bold 700 supplies titles and emphasis above Regular text without a second family.

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
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• 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 Sarala

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

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

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

Things to know

Two weights only

Sarala offers Regular and Bold. There are no intermediate weights and no italics.

Devanagari is a script, not a language list

The font covers the Devanagari script; check the conjuncts and marks your own language needs before committing.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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