Kadwa by Sol Matas — Serif Font — preview 11 / 3
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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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 FamilyKadwa
StyleRegular
Full NameKadwa
Version1.001
Weight400 (Regular)
Glyph Count931 glyphs
PostScript NameKadwa-Regular
DesignerSol Matas
FormatTTF (TrueType)
File Size245.5 KB

Languages Supported

Kadwa supports 307 languages.

How to Install Kadwa Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Kadwa font file (.ttf or .otf).
  2. 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
  3. 3Right-click the font file.
  4. 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
  5. 5Kadwa is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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What pairs well with Kadwa Font?

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

License: Open Font License (OFL)
Free
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