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About Kalam Font
Kalam is a handwriting-style typeface supporting the Devanagari and Latin scripts. This is an Open Source font family first published by the Indian Type Foundry in 2014. Even though Kalam's letterforms derive from handwriting, the fonts have each been optimised for text on screen. All in all, the typeface is a design that feels very personal. Like many informal handwriting-style fonts, it appears rather fresh and new when seen on screen or printed on the page. Kalam's letterforms feature a very steep slant from the top right to the bottom left. They are similar to letters used in everyday handwriting, and look like they might have been written with either a thin felt-tip pen, or a ball-point pen. In the Devanagari letterforms, the knotted-terminals are open, but some other counter forms are closed. Features like these strengthen the feeling that text set in this typeface has been written very quickly, in a rapid manner. Kalam is available in three weights: Light, Regular and Bold. Each font contains 1,025 glyphs, which includes many unique Devanagari conjuncts. These ensure full support for the major languages written with the Devanagari script. The Latin component's character set is a basic western one, which enables typesetting in English and the other Western European languages. Lipi Raval and Jonny Pinhorn developed the family for ITF; Raval designed the Devanagari component while she and Pinhorn worked together on the Latin. The Kalam project is led by Indian Type Foundr
Style & Use Cases
- Overall Style
- Elegant, Flowing, Script Handwritten
- Use Case
- Invitations, Branding
- Ideal For
- wedding stationery, greeting cards, and signatures
- Pairs With
- a simple uppercase sans
Kalam Specifications
| Font Family | Kalam |
| Style | Regular |
| Full Name | Kalam |
| Version | 2.001 |
| Weight | 400 (Regular) |
| Glyph Count | 1027 glyphs |
| PostScript Name | Kalam-Regular |
| Designer | Lipi Raval (Devanagari and Latin), Jonny Pinhorn (Latin) |
| Format | TTF (TrueType) |
| File Size | 417.3 KB |
Languages Supported
Kalam supports 271 languages.
How to Install Kalam Font
Step-by-step instructions for every platform
- 1Download the Kalam 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.
- 5Kalam is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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Kalam Font
Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026


















