Noto Serif Sinhala
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9 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Noto Serif Sinhala · 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 Sinhala ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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A letter home from Kandy
A Page In Noto Serif Sinhala
Noto Serif Sinhala · 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
A letter home from Kandy
Extra Light200
A letter home from Kandy
Light300
A letter home from Kandy
Regular400
A letter home from Kandy
Medium500
A letter home from Kandy
Semi Bold600
A letter home from Kandy
Bold700
A letter home from Kandy
Extra Bold800
A letter home from Kandy
Black900
A letter home from Kandy
Spoken Sinhala gets by on 40 letters, 20 vowels and 20 consonants, known as the “pure” set. Correct spelling asks for more. 18 extra consonants make up the “mixed” set, kept for spellings that remember an older pronunciation and for words borrowed from other languages, and this serif draws all of them.
The script is an Indic abugida, written left to right, in use in Sri Lanka since around 300 CE. About 15 million people speak Sinhala, and the same letters also write Pali and Sanskrit. It needs software with complex text shaping.
Noto Serif Sinhala is the modulated version, with thick and thin strokes. It comes in 9 weights here, Thin to Black, made by Monotype for Google’s Noto collection, and it has discretionary ligatures among its features.
For a book or a newspaper set in Sinhala we would choose this over the sans. The contrast suits long reading.
Characters & Figures
451 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 Sinhala
9 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 651 KB ↓- Version
- 2.007
- 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-sinhala-2/noto-serif-sinhala-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Noto Serif Sinhala', 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 Sinhala 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.