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About Kadwa Font
Kadwa is a Devanagari typeface family designed by Sol Matas. It is based on the original Latin typeface Bitter , a slab serif typeface for text. People read and interact with text on screens more and more each day. What happens on screen ends up being more important than what comes out of the printer. With the accelerating popularity of electronic books, type designers are working hard to seek out the ideal designs for reading on screen. Motivated by Sol's love for the pixel she designed Bitter, and later Kadwa. A "contemporary" slab serif typeface for text, it is specially designed for comfortably reading on any computer or device. The robust design started from the austerity of the pixel grid, based on rational rather than emotional principles. It combines the large x-heights and legibility of the humanistic tradition with subtle characteristics in the characters that inject a certain rhythm to flowing texts. It has little variation in stroke weight and the Regular is darker than a typical typeface intended for use in print. This generates an intense color in paragraphs, accentuated by the serifs that are as thick as strokes, with square terminals. Each glyph is carefully designed with an excellent curve quality added to the first stage of the design, that was entirely made in a pixel grid. The typeface is balanced and manually spaced to use very few kerning pairs, especially important for web font use since most browsers do not currently support this feature. The Kadwa pro
Style & Use Cases
- Overall Style
- Classic, Refined, Serif
- Use Case
- Editorial, Print
- Ideal For
- book covers, long-form text, and traditional branding
- Pairs With
- a clean sans-serif for captions
Kadwa Specifications
| Font Family | Kadwa |
| Style | Regular |
| Full Name | Kadwa |
| Version | 1.001 |
| Weight | 400 (Regular) |
| Glyph Count | 931 glyphs |
| PostScript Name | Kadwa-Regular |
| Designer | Sol Matas |
| Format | TTF (TrueType) |
| File Size | 245.5 KB |
Languages Supported
Kadwa supports 307 languages.
How to Install Kadwa Font
Step-by-step instructions for every platform
- 1Download the Kadwa font file (.ttf or .otf).
- 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
- 3Right-click the font file.
- 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
- 5Kadwa is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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Kadwa Font is a versatile serif font that works for both headings and body text. Pair it with a contrasting sans-serif or slab serif font to add visual interest and a clear distinction between titles and body copy.
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Kadwa Font
by Sol Matas
Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026

















