Tiro Bangla
Designed By
Tiro Typeworks, John Hudson, Fiona Ross, Neelakash Kshetrimayum
2 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Tiro Bangla · Regular
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2 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Tiro Bangla ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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A reprint for the college library
A Page In Tiro Bangla
Tiro Bangla · 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
A reprint for the college library
Italic400
A reprint for the college library
Harvard University Press needed type in 2012 for its Murty Classical Library of India, and the commission went to Fiona Ross and John Hudson at Tiro Typeworks, and Tiro Bangla is the Bengali branch of what they made.
For its look they went to Kolkata. The proportions and the texture of a page come from the handset metal type of the city’s leading publishing houses before mechanical typesetting, while the construction of the letters follows the manuscript tradition. Hudson has described the research behind the whole set as a study of manuscripts and early Indian printing from the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 2019 Google Fonts asked Tiro for an extended version to release openly. More characters went in, and Neelakash Kshetrimayum adapted a new italic.
A Latin with the diacritics for transcribing Indian languages comes along, with small caps of its own, and there are 5 stylistic sets. We would give it long reading in print, a novel or an annotated edition.
Characters & Figures
485 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Tiro Bangla
2 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 320 KB ↓- Version
- 1.52
- 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/tiro-bangla-2/tiro-bangla-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Tiro Bangla', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Tiro Bangla 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.