Kanchenjunga
Designed By
Becca Hirsbrunner Spalinger
4 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Kanchenjunga · Regular
Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.
4 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Kanchenjunga ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Trail notes from the eastern hills
A Clear Hierarchy
Kanchenjunga · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Departures09:00 →
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
4 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Trail notes from the eastern hills
Medium500
Trail notes from the eastern hills
Semi Bold600
Trail notes from the eastern hills
Bold700
Trail notes from the eastern hills
Until Unicode 16.0, Kirat Rai had no official place in the standard, and until this font it had no Unicode font family at all. The script is used to write Bantawa, a language of the Sikkim state of India, and in West Bengal people also call it Khambu Rai Lipi. Kanchenjunga is the font that fills that gap.
The name is a map. Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world, stands on the border between Sikkim and eastern Nepal, more or less over the area where Bantawa is spoken.
Becca Hirsbrunner Spalinger designed it at SIL International and based the letters loosely on the handwriting style of Kirat Rai that appeared in some of the early reading primers, so the type keeps a little of the hand those primers were written in.
- 4 weights, Regular, Medium, Semi Bold and Bold, with Latin included for bilingual work
Google added it in October 2024.

Characters & Figures
360 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 278 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Kanchenjunga
4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 121 KB ↓- Version
- 2.001
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/kanchenjunga/kanchenjunga.css">
body {
font-family: 'Kanchenjunga', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.
Kanchenjunga Heading · Kanchenjunga Body
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
