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Tillana is a refreshingly informal family of typefaces for Devanagari and Latin.
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The fonts were first published by the Indian Type Foundry as an open source project in 2014.
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Coming in at 1,021 glyphs per weight, Tillana has all of the characters necessary to set a variety of European languages, as well as Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and more.
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The Tillana family includes five styles, which range in weight from Regular through Extra Bold.
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Tillana’s Latin do not connect; this part of the family is a non-joining script type.
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The Devanagari part is one of the few “true cursive” designs currently available for the script.
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Characters from both writing systems appear as if they were fluidly handwritten, particularly the Devanagari.
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Tillana’s letterforms are slanted at a 10 degree angle.
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The strokes are show visible contrast, and the dynamic counter forms are one of the design’s most prominent features.
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The forms involve many loops and hooks and most of the knots are loops rather than closed, black forms.
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All vertical strokes in both scripts have swelling at their tops and bottoms, and the Devanagari characters’ central vertical strokes almost always break through the headline.
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Handwriting artefacts are present in the Latin letters, too, such as hook on the descender of the lowercase q.
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Tillana’s Devanagari base character height falls vertically between the Latin upper and lowercase letter heights.
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The Latin characters have a small x-height and long ascenders and descenders.
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Lipi Raval designed the Devanagari components of Tillana, and worked together with Jonny Pinhorn on the Latin.
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This project is led by Indian Type Foundry, a type foundry based in Ahmedabad, Gujurat, India, who design contemporary Indian typeface families.
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To contribute, see <a href="https://github.com/itfoundry/tillana">Tillana on GitHub</a>.
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