Sumana

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Sumana Regular
• Bold 700Sumana Bold

About Sumana

Sumana is a serif family that sets Latin and Devanagari side by side in running text. Its Latin has moderate contrast, bracketed serifs and brush-like curves, with a round ball on the a and a tail on the Q that sweeps to the right in the specimen. That Latin comes from Lora by Olga Karpushina, with vertical and horizontal metrics adjusted to sit better beside the Devanagari. Alexei Vanyashin drew the Devanagari in 2014 and 2015 for Cyreal; his notes say he kept it near a traditional Indian calligraphic model while borrowing graphic ideas from the Latin, and that it was his first design for the script. The family has two styles, Regular and Bold, with 750 glyphs each. Sumana means flower in Sanskrit.

Where Sumana works

Hindi and English articles

Both scripts were tuned to share metrics, so bilingual paragraphs keep an even line.

Web text in Devanagari

The official notes name text setting and web use as the purpose of the family.

Literary and cultural publishing

The Devanagari follows a calligraphic model, giving essays and poetry a written warmth.

Headings in the Bold

With two weights, the Bold marks titles and subheads above Regular text.

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: 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 Sumana

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

body {
  font-family: "Sumana", serif;
}

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

Things to know

No italic

Sumana has Regular and Bold only.

Latin metrics differ from Lora

Although the Latin is derived from Lora, its vertical and horizontal metrics were changed to match the Devanagari, so the two are not interchangeable line for line.

Static fonts

The family is supplied as two static files and is not a variable font.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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