Sahitya
Designed By
Juan Pablo del Peral
2 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Sahitya · Regular
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Download Sahitya ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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The poet read until midnight
A Page In Sahitya
Sahitya · 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.
2 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
The poet read until midnight
Bold700
The poet read until midnight
Sahitya is Alegreya’s Devanagari. Juan Pablo del Peral, who drew the Latin Alegreya fonts, led the design of a Devanagari to match their style and feel, working on it with Sol Matas, and the Latin here is his own.
The question with a font like this is whether the 2 scripts will look like relatives on a page. Here the Devanagari was drawn from the start to share the style of the Latin beside it. Erin McLaughlin, Vaishnavi Murthy, Noopur Datye, Dan Reynolds and José Nicolás Silva gave feedback along the way.
It is small, Regular and Bold only, but has the reading features you’d want in a book: old style and tabular figures, fractions, ligatures. A Hindi novel or a bilingual anthology would suit it.
Characters & Figures
507 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
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The Font Files
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Sahitya
2 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 227 KB ↓- Version
- 1.001
- 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/sahitya/sahitya.css">
body {
font-family: 'Sahitya', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Sahitya 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.