Designed by Saurabh Sharma
Kumbh Sans is a Geometric Sans Serif font envisioned to serve as a multi-purpose and workhorse font in modern web and mobile applications. The anatomy is geometric with slight contrast. The font's cap-height vs x-height ratio is kept as 3:2 for optimum legibility at any point size.
After initial release in three weights, the typeface has been converted into a variable font in June 2021 with a weight axis (100 to 900).
To contribute, see github.com/xconsau/KumbhSans
Based in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, Saurabh Sharma is an independent Developer & Graphic/Web design professional with over 17 years of experience in the Information Technology and Services Industry. Saurabh has worked on HTML/CSS websites, UI Designs, frameworks, WordPress themes, plugins, JavaScript and PHP projects. In recent years, Saurabh has been actively working on font design and development. His first release was the Kumbh Sans project on Google Fonts.
When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of this Google Fonts Knowledge module is to show that there are many considerations that can improve our type choices. By setting some useful constraints to aid our type selection, we can also develop a critical eye for analyzing type along the way.
Choosing web fonts: A beginner's all-in-one guide
A checklist for choosing type
Emotive considerations for choosing typefaces
Choosing reliable typefaces
Exploring typefaces with multiple weights or grades
Exploring width in type
Choosing typefaces that have optical sizes
Pairing typefaces
Pairing typefaces within a family & superfamily
Pairing typefaces by the same type designer or type foundry
Pairing typefaces using the font matrix
Exploring x-height & the em square
Adding fonts to Google Docs and Slides
