Poppins is a geometric sans serif that supports both Latin and Devanagari. Many of the Latin letters, the ampersand for example, are more constructed and rationalist than usual, and the strokes are nearly monolinear, with small optical corrections at the joints to keep the colour of a paragraph even.
Indian Type Foundry developed it. Ninad Kale designed the Devanagari and Jonny Pinhorn the Latin, and the ITF studio team later refined it and grew it to nine weights with italics. When it appeared in 2015, the Devanagari was the first of its kind with a range of weights in a geometric style. The Latin x-height is set rather high, and Latin capitals are a little shorter than the Devanagari characters.
The ZIP contains 18 static TTF files, Thin to Black in upright and italic. Poppins is not a variable font.
Best uses for Poppins
- Logos and brand wordmarks
- Website and app headings
- Bilingual Hindi and English layouts
- Posters and social graphics
- Presentation titles
Font pairings
Poppins is round and bold in the headline weights, so give it a quiet partner. Inter or Open Sans keep body text neutral, and Lora adds a gentle serif for editorial pages.
Licence & credit
Poppins is designed by Indian Type Foundry, Jonny Pinhorn and Ninad Kale and released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. That makes it free for personal and commercial use: logos, packaging, websites, apps, videos and print. You can bundle it in your own projects and modify it. You cannot sell the font files by themselves, and the licence text stays with them. Our guide to the SIL Open Font License explains what that means in practice. The family is also on Google Fonts and its source is on the project page.
Poppins Font Family
License: Personal & Commercial Use
Font Type: Free
Format: TTF
File Size: 1.3 MB
Total Files: 18
