Akshar
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/akshar 2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/akshar/wght.css'; 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Akshar Variable", sans-serif;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* akshar-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Akshar Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/akshar:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
} Background & Story
Akshar is a variable display sans-serif font family that supports Latin and Devanagari. It is designed for titles, statements, headlines, annoucements, intros, outros, and other display texts. Akshar (Hindi: अक्षर) literally means an alphabet or a letter in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and other Indic languages.
Akshar is an OpenType Variable Font. It offers 2 axes: Weight (wght) and Contrast (CNTR).
The Weight axis ranges from 300 to 700. The Contrast axis ranges from 0 to 100.
Note: The Contrast axis is currently not supported by Google Fonts API. The fonts will be updated once it is supported.
To contribute, visit github.com/tallchai/akshar-type.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/akshar Designed by
Tall Chai
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License
OFL-1.1