Shanti

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Shanti Regular

About Shanti

Shanti is a sans serif typeface of moderate width with a tall lowercase and only a slight difference between thick and thin strokes. In the specimen the stroke ends of a, c and s are cut at an angle, the lowercase l finishes in a small curve to the right, and the figures match the height of the capitals. The official source, which refers to the design as Shanti One, describes a plain sans serif intended for use across the web in browsers on computers and mobile devices, and notes a later update that enlarged the glyph set, added fractions and adjusted some shapes. The family consists of one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 428 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Vernon Adams is the designer, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Shanti works

Navigation and interface labels

A tall lowercase and the curved foot on l, which separates it from capital I, help short labels read quickly.

Web page headings

The plain Regular works as a calm heading face over body text in a serif or another sans.

Recipes and measurements

Fractions are part of the 428 glyphs, so quantities such as halves and quarters can be set as single characters.

Pages in Central European languages

Latin Extended coverage includes the accents for Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian and Turkish.

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

Character sets found in the files: 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 Shanti

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 Shanti 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: "Shanti";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Shanti-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Shanti 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=Shanti&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style only

Shanti has no bold and no italic. Browsers will synthesise them if asked, which distorts the letters, so plan emphasis another way.

Listed as Shanti One by the source

The official notes use the name Shanti One, while the font files and this page use the family name Shanti.

Latin script only

Latin and Latin Extended are covered; Cyrillic and Greek are not.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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