Shrikhand

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Shrikhand Regular

About Shrikhand

Shrikhand is a display typeface with very heavy, forward-leaning letters and compact serifs, drawn for both Gujarati and Latin. In the specimen the Latin letters are wide and thick with small counters, rounded joins and curling ends on a, f and y. The official notes say the name belongs to a sweet, creamy dessert from Gujarat that the designer is fond of, and that the design distils three years of looking at hand-painted lettering in the streets there while Jonny Pinhorn lived in Ahmedabad; work on the font started in June 2015. There is one style only, and it is slanted: the file is listed as Regular and no upright companion exists. Its 829 glyphs cover the Gujarati script along with Latin and Latin Extended. Shrikhand is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Shrikhand works

Posters and event titles

Thick slanted letters with tiny counters turn two or three words into a single dark shape.

Food packaging and menus

The design is named after a dessert and carries the look of painted shop lettering onto labels and menu headings.

Gujarati and Latin shopfronts

Both scripts are drawn in the same heavy, curving manner, so a bilingual sign keeps one voice.

Logos

The curling terminals give a short name a distinct silhouette at large sizes.

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
• Latvian
• Estonian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Gujarati. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: gujarati, 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 Shrikhand

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

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

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

Things to know

One slanted style

Shrikhand has no upright, light or bold companion. Its only style leans forward.

Listed as Regular

The font file is named Regular at weight 400 although its letters slant, so applications list it under Regular, not Italic.

Small counters

The openings inside letters are narrow, which closes up quickly at small sizes.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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