Sarpanch

Try Sarpanch

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Sarpanch Regular
• Medium 500Sarpanch Medium
• SemiBold 600Sarpanch SemiBold
• Bold 700Sarpanch Bold
• ExtraBold 800Sarpanch ExtraBold
• Black 900Sarpanch Black

About Sarpanch

Sarpanch is a display typeface built on squared, wide letterforms, covering both Devanagari and Latin. Curves are flattened into rounded rectangles, so the o, the a and the numerals read as boxes with softened corners. The family has six weights and no italics. Weight is added almost entirely to the vertical strokes while the horizontals stay thin: Regular looks close to monoline, and Black shows strong contrast between thick stems and hairline bars. Each font holds 1,020 glyphs, including the conjunct forms that Devanagari text needs. Indian Type Foundry published the family. The name table credits Manushi Parikh for Devanagari and Latin and Jyotish Sonowal for Devanagari; the official notes attribute the Regular to Sonowal and the heavier weights to Parikh. In Hindi the word sarpanch refers to a village head.

Where Sarpanch works

Bilingual Hindi and English headlines

Devanagari and Latin share one squared construction, so a headline can switch scripts without changing its texture.

Broadcast tickers and lower thirds

The official notes name television news tickers as an intended use; the wide, boxy letters were drawn for pixel sizes as well as print.

One- or two-word poster lines

Bold, ExtraBold and Black are dense enough that the notes recommend them for single words or pairs instead of full sentences.

Technology and gaming titles

Flattened curves and rectangular counters give Regular to SemiBold a machine-drawn look for product names and screen titles.

Advertising straplines

Regular, Medium and SemiBold stay open enough to carry a short headline of several words.

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 Sarpanch

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 Sarpanch 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: "Sarpanch";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Sarpanch-Black.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Sarpanch";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Sarpanch-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Sarpanch";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Sarpanch-ExtraBold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 800;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Sarpanch";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Sarpanch-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 2 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Sarpanch 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=Sarpanch:wght@400;500;600;700;800;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Upright only

All six styles are upright. Sarpanch has no italic and no variable font file.

Contrast rises with weight

Vertical strokes thicken from Regular to Black while horizontal strokes keep roughly the same thickness, so the heaviest weights look far more contrasted than the lightest.

Drawn for large sizes

The official notes describe Sarpanch as designed for large point and pixel sizes, not for running text.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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