Tiro Telugu
Designed By
Tiro Typeworks, John Hudson, Fiona Ross, Kaja Słojewska
2 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Tiro Telugu · Regular
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Download Tiro Telugu ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Notes on the Godavari delta
A Page In Tiro Telugu
Tiro Telugu · 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
Notes on the Godavari delta
Italic400
Notes on the Godavari delta
The subscript letters in Tiro Telugu are large. John Hudson and Fiona Ross took their size from Telugu manuscripts, where those letters below the line were written generously, and they kept them that way to help legibility, so a dense cluster of consonants still reads.
The face began as type for the Murty Classical Library of India, a book series, and it shows its literary upbringing. The proportions come from the manuscript tradition. The contrast in the strokes and the shaping of the counters and finials owe more to metal: the Telugu types of the Swatantra Type Foundry.
Its layout rules can build arbitrary conjuncts, the rare ones along with the common, and that matters for anyone setting Sanskrit or Pali in Telugu script. When the fonts came out as a libre release, Tiro extended the character set and added an italic companion, adapted by Kaja Słojewska; Google Fonts lists the family from March 2022.
There is a Latin side too, with the diacritics needed to transliterate Indian languages, so a scholarly edition can put a romanized line next to the Telugu without switching fonts. Hidden in the features: small caps and 6 stylistic sets.
We would treat it as a book face first. A translation or a critical edition, a journal on South Indian literature, a library catalog. It was made with screens in mind as well, but the page is where it looks most at ease.
Characters & Figures
479 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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Tiro Telugu
2 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 446 KB ↓- Version
- 1.53
- 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-telugu-2/tiro-telugu-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Tiro Telugu', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Tiro Telugu 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.