Martel Sans - Google Fonts

About

The Martel Sans typeface is designed for typesetting immersive 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, and others.

The Martel Devanagari design 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. This Sans design is a low contrast design based on the initial Martel Devanagari. The Latin character set is an original design. Both character sets are the work of Dan Reynolds and Mathieu Réguer.

The Martel Sans project is led by Dan Reynolds, a type designer based in Berlin, Germany. To contribute, see github.com/typeoff/martel_sans

Updated November 2015: Internal metadata corrected.

Designers

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.

www.typeoff.de | GitHub | Twitter

Mathieu Réguer

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.