Teko

Try Teko

Weights and styles

• Light 300Teko Light
• Regular 400Teko Regular
• Medium 500Teko Medium
• SemiBold 600Teko SemiBold
• Bold 700Teko Bold

Teko is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Teko

Teko is a display sans serif that covers the Devanagari and Latin scripts. Its letters are tall and narrow with squared curves, flat sides and very little difference between thick and thin strokes; the specimen shows a single-storey a and straight-sided o. Manushi Parikh designed the typeface for Indian Type Foundry, which published it in 2014, and the name table also credits Jonny Pinhorn. The variable version was produced by Marc Foley in 2023. Teko has five weights, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, on a weight axis from 300 to 700, without italics. The official notes recommend the middle weights for long headlines and Bold for one or two words. The file holds 991 glyphs, including the conjuncts and ligatures that Devanagari text requires, and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Teko works

News headlines and tickers

Narrow letters fit many characters into a strip, and the official notes name television news tickers as an intended use.

Hindi and English titles together

Devanagari and Latin were drawn as one design, so a bilingual headline keeps the same square structure in both scripts.

Sports graphics and scoreboards

Tall figures with flat sides stack into compact scores and tables at large sizes.

Advertising headlines

Regular, Medium and SemiBold are the weights recommended for long headlines; Bold is kept for a word or two.

Large web hero text

The Light 300 cut stays thin and even at big sizes, and the variable file serves every weight from one download.

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
• 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 Teko

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 Teko 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: "Teko";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Teko-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Teko 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=Teko:wght@300..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Display sizes only

Teko was created for headlines and other large text; its narrow, tightly fitted letters are not drawn for paragraphs.

No italics

The family has five upright weights on an axis from 300 to 700.

Glyph count differs from the older notes

The official description gives a figure of 1090 for each font; the current variable file contains 991 glyphs.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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