Tiro Bangla

Designed by Tiro Typeworks, John Hudson, Fiona Ross, Neelakash Kshetrimayum

1 weights • Version 6 • On Google Fonts since 2022 • Popularity #631

Quick Summary

2

Styles · incl. italic

400-400

Weight Range

Static

Not variable

3

Languages / Subsets

Category
serif
Best for
display
Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Origin
Kolkata, India
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
May 30, 2025

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About Tiro Bangla Fonts

Tiro Bangla has its origins in a typeface designed for the Murty Classical Library of India book series, so is especially suited to traditional literary publishing but also made with the needs of today’s multiple print and screen media in mind. The design follows manuscript traditions of letterform construction, and was inspired by the proportions and overall texture of handset metal type used by leading Kolkata publishing houses in pre-mechanical typography. For the Open Font License release, Tiro Bangla has been extended to support additional characters, and features a new italic companion. Each font also includes a Latin subset including diacritics for transcription of Indian languages.

Tiro Bangla was designed by John Hudson and Fiona Ross. The italic was adapted by Neelakash Kshetrimayum.

To contribute, see github.com/TiroTypeworks/Indigo.

To learn more, read Modern Tiro Indic collection for classical South Asian texts.

Who Designed Tiro Bangla?

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Tiro Typeworks is a small type foundry specialising in custom fonts for multilingual publishing and computing. Tiro’s clients include Adobe, Apple, Brill, Google, Harvard University Press, Microsoft, the STI Pub consortium, and other specialist publishers and scholarly organisations.

John Hudson is a Canadian type designer and font maker, and co-founder of Tiro Typeworks (1994).

Fiona Ross specializes in type design primarily for Arabic, South Asian, and Thai scripts. She works as a consultant, type designer, author, and Professor in Type Design (part-time) at the University of Reading (UK). Fiona has received the SoTA Typography Award (2014) and the Type Director’s Club Medal (2018).

Academic Profile

Typeface and graphic designer from Manipur (India), Neelakash is the co-founder of Brand New Type, India. He has developed typefaces for Adobe, Google, Microsoft and Monotype, frequently collaborating with Fiona Ross and John Hudson. His work centers around identity, culture, and multi-script typeface design. He studied graphic design at the National Institute of Design, India and has a Master’s degree in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, United Kingdom.

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