Nirmala Text is a modern typeface designed to give an uncluttered and clean appearance in documents on the screen. It is suitable for business documents, email, and web design. The primary characteristics of Nirmala Text are clarity of form and legibility, with a consistent typographic style across all of the scripts the typeface supports. The letterforms are open, with soft flowing curves. It is legible, clear, and functional in small sizes; at larger sizes, the detailing and style of the shapes are more apparent, giving it a wide range of possible uses.
Nirmala Text is a refinement of Nirmala UI, a font designed for computer user interfaces. While Nirmala UI had to fit within the vertical constraints of the user interface, in Nirmala Text the same letter shapes could be arranged in a more natural, traditional spacing, in keeping with the norms of the various Indian writing systems, and is therefore much more suitable for use in documents.
Nirmala Text supports a wide range of scripts and their associated languages from the Indian subcontinent, including Bengali/Bangla, Chakma, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Ol Chiki, Sinhala, Sora Sompeng, Tamil, and Telugu, as well as a Latin subset.
This workhorse multi-script typeface was created for Microsoft by several type designers working with Tiro Typeworks, under the design direction of Dr Fiona Ross: David Březina (Gujarati), Valentin Brusteaux (Kannada & Telugu), Jo De Baerdemaeker (Bengali Regular and Bold), Paul Hanslow (Chakma), Neelakash Kshetrimayum (Bengali SemiLight, Meetei Mayek, Ol Chiki, Sora Sompeng), John Hudson (Devanagari, Odia, Gurmukhi, Sinhala), and Fernando Mello (Tamil). The Latin subset is taken from Segoe UI, designed by Steve Matteson.
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Design Projects
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PDFs
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How to Use
You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.
Desktop
In application font menus, this font will display:
{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}Web
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters
Fonts in the Adobe Fonts library include support for many different languages, OpenType features, and typographic styles.