Kalam

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Specification

Designer

Indian Type Foundry

Foundry

Indian Type Foundry

Released

2014

Category

Handwriting

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Annotations, Captions, Quotations, Informal headlines

Weights

300, 400, 700

Styles

Normal

Variable

No

Glyphs

1,027

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Devanagari

Download size

556 KB

Source

github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/kalam

Questions

Is Kalam free for commercial use?

Yes. Kalam is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.

Can I use Kalam in a logo?

Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Kalam belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Indian Type Foundry. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.

How do I install Kalam?

Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 3 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up.

Does Kalam support Turkish?

Yes. Kalam includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.

What languages does Kalam support?

Kalam covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Devanagari, across 1,027 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

What weights does Kalam come in?

Kalam comes in 3 weights: Light (300), Regular (400) and Bold (700). Each weight is its own file in the download.

Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Kalam?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 29 KB against 134 KB for the complete file, 78% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.

Where can I download Kalam as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is kalam.woff2, and it is about 134 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.