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Tiro Gurmukhi

Designed By

Tiro Typeworks, John Hudson, Fiona Ross, Paul Hanslow

2 Styles Serif

The pleasure
of a well-set
page.

Tiro Gurmukhi · Regular

Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.

2 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.

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TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1

Set Your Own Text

Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.

Verses copied in a careful hand

A Page In Tiro Gurmukhi

Tiro Gurmukhi · 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

Verses copied in a careful hand

Italic400

Verses copied in a careful hand

Through most of the 20th century Gurmukhi type went monolinear, every stroke the same thickness, and that became what Punjabi readers expected from print. Tiro Gurmukhi goes back further. John Hudson and Fiona Ross restored the thick and thin of the old Punjabi manuscript hands, so a page has a texture closer to writing than to signage.

It started life as a typeface for the Murty Classical Library of India, a book series of old literary texts, and that is still where it fits most naturally. For the open release Tiro added more characters and an italic, adapted by Paul Hanslow.

The Latin is part of the deal too, and it has the accented letters needed to romanize Indian languages, which a scholarly edition with romanized terms in the notes will need. 10 stylistic sets come with it, along with small caps.

Set it for a collection of poems in Punjabi, or a critical edition. An app interface is the wrong place, we think.

Tiro Gurmukhi type specimen with letters and figures
Tiro Gurmukhi · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

467 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !

View The Recorded Character Selection
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The Font Files

Download
Tiro Gurmukhi

2 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.

Download ZIP · 154 KB ↓
Version
1.52
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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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-gurmukhi-2/tiro-gurmukhi-2.css">

body {
  font-family: 'Tiro Gurmukhi', sans-serif;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.

Tiro Gurmukhi 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.