Martel Sans
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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Configuration
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Package Manager
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1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/martel-sans2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Martel Sans", sans-serif;
}Google Fonts CDN
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HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style -->Fontsource CDN
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Global CSS
/* Please select at least one weight and style */Background & Story
The Martel Sans typeface is designed for typesetting immersive documents. It may be be used to set long passages of text in languages that are written in the Devanagari script, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit, and others.
The Martel Devanagari design is a readable typeface whose glyph proportions are inspired by traditional writing and calligraphic styles. Its high-contrast strokes have a diagonal axis, in keeping with the pen-angle most often used for the Devanagari writing system. This Sans design is a low contrast design based on the initial Martel Devanagari. The Latin character set is an original design. Both character sets are the work of Dan Reynolds and Mathieu Réguer.
The Martel Sans project is led by Dan Reynolds, a type designer based in Berlin, Germany. To contribute, see github.com/typeoff/martel_sans
Updated November 2015: Internal metadata corrected.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource/martel-sansDesigned by
Dan Reynolds, Mathieu Réguer
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License
OFL-1.1