Tiro Bangla

Try Tiro Bangla

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Tiro Bangla Regular Italic

About Tiro Bangla

Tiro Bangla is a text serif for the Bengali script that began as the typeface of a book series, the Murty Classical Library of India. Its letter construction follows manuscript practice, and its proportions and texture take their cue from the hand-set metal type of leading Kolkata publishers before mechanical composition. For the open release the character set was extended and an italic was added, adapted by Neelakash Kshetrimayum from the upright by John Hudson and Fiona Ross. Each font also carries a Latin subset with the diacritics used to transcribe Indian languages; in the specimen that Latin is a bracketed book serif with moderate contrast and numerals of varying height. The family has two styles, Regular and Italic, in a single weight, with 1,191 glyphs. The copyright notice names The Indigo Project Authors, and Tiro Typeworks is the manufacturer.

Where Tiro Bangla works

Literary and scholarly books in Bengali script

The design comes from type made for a classical library series, with proportions modelled on hand-set book type.

Editions with romanised transcription

The Latin subset includes the diacritics needed to transcribe Indian languages, so original and transliteration share one typeface.

Long-form reading on screen

The official notes say the face was made with present-day print and screen media in mind, not only for letterpress-style books.

Emphasis and titles within text

The italic companion gives Bengali text a second voice for titles, terms and stress without a change of family.

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
• Slovenian
• Estonian

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

Character sets found in the files: bengali, latin. 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 Tiro Bangla

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 Tiro Bangla 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: "Tiro Bangla";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/TiroBangla-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Tiro Bangla";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/TiroBangla-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Tiro Bangla", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Tiro Bangla 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=Tiro+Bangla:ital,wght@0,400;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One weight, no bold

Tiro Bangla has Regular and Italic at weight 400. There is no bold, so headings rely on size or a second family.

Latin is a subset

The Latin part covers the basic Latin subset plus transcription diacritics; the Latin Extended subset is not complete.

Part of a larger collection

The source repository is named Indigo, and the official notes refer to a wider Tiro Indic collection made for classical texts of South Asia.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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