Kalam by Indian Type Foundry — Script Handwritten Font — preview 11 / 3
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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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 FamilyKalam
StyleRegular
Full NameKalam
Version2.001
Weight400 (Regular)
Glyph Count1027 glyphs
PostScript NameKalam-Regular
DesignerLipi Raval (Devanagari and Latin), Jonny Pinhorn (Latin)
FormatTTF (TrueType)
File Size417.3 KB

Languages Supported

Kalam supports 271 languages.

How to Install Kalam Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Kalam 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. 5Kalam is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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What pairs well with Kalam Font?

Kalam Font is a script font that shines as a display or heading face. Pair it with a clean sans-serif or serif font for body text — the contrast creates a clear hierarchy while the two styles stay balanced and easy to read.

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Kalam Font

by Indian Type Foundry

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026

License: Open Font License (OFL)
Free
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