Martel
Designed by Dan Reynolds
7 weights • Version 12 • On Google Fonts since 2015 • Popularity #201
Quick Summary
7
Styles
200-900
Weight Range
Static
Not variable
3
Languages / Subsets
© 2015 Dan Reynolds. • © 2010-2015, Sorkin Type Co with Reserved Font Name 'Merriweather'
The quick brown fox
About Martel Fonts
Martel is a libre font development project. Begun in 2008 in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, the first weights of the font family (Martel UltraLight, Light, Regular, DemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold and Heavy) were released in 2014. The Devanagari glyphs to-date have all been designed by Dan Reynolds, whereas the Latin script’s glyphs are based on the Merriweather fonts.
Check out the Martel Sans project, too.
The Martel Devanagari typeface is designed for typesetting immersive-style documents. It may be be used to set long passages of text in languages that are written in the Devanagari script, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit, etc. Martel Devanagari is a readable typeface whose glyph proportions are inspired by traditional writing and calligraphic styles. Its high-contrast strokes have a diagonal axis, in keeping with the pen-angle most often used for the Devanagari writing system.
The Martel project is led by Dan Reynolds, a type designer in Berlin. To contribute, visit github.com/typeoff/martel
Who Designed Martel?
Dan Reynolds
Dan is an independent designer with a focus on letters: he draws typefaces, builds fonts, writes about typography, and teaches design and design history. He’s working on a doctoral dissertation on German type from the Wilhelmine period. Originally from the United States, Dan has lived in England and now resides in Germany. He created the typeface Dasa, and together with Mathieu Réguer developed Biryani and Martel Sans.
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