Noto Serif Kannada
Designed By
9 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Noto Serif Kannada · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
9 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Noto Serif Kannada ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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A Page In Noto Serif Kannada
Noto Serif Kannada · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
9 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
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Extra Light200
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Light300
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Regular400
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Medium500
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Semi Bold600
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Bold700
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Extra Bold800
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Black900
Mysore Dasara, evening program
Some 45 million people use the Kannada script, and it writes more than the Kannada language. The same script, in southern India, also serves Konkani, Tulu and Badaga, along with Kudiya and Paniya. It is an Indic abugida that runs left to right with a headstroke on part of the letters, and it is related to Telugu.
Noto Serif Kannada is the modulated, serif design for that script in Google’s Noto collection. The font files credit 3 hands, Universal Thirst, Indian Type Foundry and the Monotype design team, a strong line-up. Kannada depends on complex text layout, so it will only render properly in software that does the shaping.
What makes it practical is the range. There are 9 weights, Thin at 100 through Black at 900, so a Kannada newspaper or textbook can run body text and headlines in 1 family. The Latin is a matching serif, and the coverage also reaches into the Vedic Extensions block.
We’d start body text at Regular and keep the thinnest weights for large display lines.
Characters & Figures
445 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Noto Serif Kannada
9 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 605 KB ↓- Version
- 2.005
- 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/noto-serif-kannada-2/noto-serif-kannada-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Noto Serif Kannada', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Noto Serif Kannada Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.