Akshar

Classification

Humanist Sans
Geometric Sans

Font Technology

Variable Font with 1 axis
Weight (wght): 300–700

How To Use Akshar

To use Akshar in your web project, either search Google Fonts and use their embed code or host the font on your server and use the CSS below. Note: fonts served by Google Fonts may be missing some OpenType features that are available in the original font.
Download Akshar
@font-face {
  font-family: 'Akshar';
  src: url('<YOUR SERVER PATH>Akshar[wght].ttf') format(woff2);
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-stretch: 100%;
  font-style: normal;
}

Description

Akshar is a variable display sans-serif font family that supports Latin and Devanagari. It is designed for titles, statements, headlines, annoucements, intros, outros, and other display texts. Akshar (Hindi: अक्षर) literally means an alphabet or a letter in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and other Indic languages. Akshar is an OpenType Variable Font. It offers 2 axes: Weight ( wght ) and Contrast ( CNTR ). The Weight axis ranges from 300 to 700. The Contrast axis ranges from 0 to 100. Note: The Contrast axis is currently not supported by Google Fonts API. The fonts will be updated once it is supported. To contribute, visit github.com/tallchai/akshar-type .

Designer

Tall Chai
Tall Chai is an indie type foundry dedicated to Indic and Latin font development. Fonts are made with heart, soul and spice.

Copyright

Copyright 2022 The Akshar Type Project Authors (https://github.com/tallchai/akshar-type)

OpenType Features

Discretionary ligatures
Fractions
Standard ligatures
Stylistic alternates
Stylistic set 1
Stylistic set 2
Stylistic set 3
Stylistic set 4
Superscript

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Akshar regular
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears.
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Arbitrary Fractions
diagonal-fractions
1/2 1/3 2/3 3/4 5/8 15/16 1234/5678
Discretionary ligatures
default css
font-feature-settings: "dlig" 1
ffj
ffj
fj
fj
tt
tt
Fractions
default css
font-feature-settings: "frac" 1
/
/
0
0
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
4
5
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
9
9
Standard ligatures
font-variant-ligatures: none
font-feature-settings: "liga" 1
ffi
ffi
ffj
ffj
ffl
ffl
ff
ff
fi
fi
fj
fj
fl
fl
tt
tt
Stylistic alternates
default css
font-feature-settings: "salt" 1
I
I
Í
Í
Î
Î
Ï
Ï
Ì
Ì
Ī
Ī
J
J
Stylistic set 1
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss01" 1
I
I
Í
Í
Î
Î
Ï
Ï
Ì
Ì
Ī
Ī
J
J
Stylistic set 2
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss02" 1
a
a
á
á
â
â
ä
ä
à
à
ā
ā
å
å
ã
ã
æ
æ
ª
ª
Stylistic set 3
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss03" 1
Y
Y
Ý
Ý
Ŷ
Ŷ
Ÿ
Ÿ
Ỳ
Ỳ
y
y
ý
ý
ŷ
ŷ
ÿ
ÿ
ỳ
ỳ
Stylistic set 4
default css
font-feature-settings: "ss04" 1
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