Matangi
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/matangi2. Import in App
import '@fontsource-variable/matangi/wght.css';3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Matangi 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
/* matangi-latin-wght-normal */
@font-face {
font-family: "Matangi Variable";
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
font-weight: 100 900;
src: url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/fontsource/fonts/matangi:vf@latest/latin-wght-normal.woff2)
format("woff2-variations");
}Background & Story
Matangi is a semi-condensed sans-serif variable typeface that supports both Latin and Devanagari scripts. It includes seven static weights — Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, SemiBold, ExtraBold, and Black — offering a flexible range suitable for titles, headings, logos, and small body text. Started as a personal challenge and a love for typography, this project was a journey of exploration and self-learning, designed to offer a flexible, functional tool for multilingual design. It is also the first variable font project from Nepal, with the hope of benefiting users worldwide.
The design is based on simple geometric shapes, primarily squares and circles, giving the letterforms a structured, rational character. Subtle inktraps are applied at stroke joints for aesthetic purposes, ensuring even typographic color across various sizes and weights. The x-height of the Latin script and the base character height of the Devanagari script are carefully aligned to create visual harmony when typesetting both scripts together. Matangi includes over 1,700 glyphs and provides extensive language support, covering more than 150 (Devanagari & Latin Based) languages, primarily including Nepali, Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Awadhi, Dotyali and Latin-based languages. It seamlessly renders extended Sanskrit ligatures and complex Devanagari matras.
To contribute, please see github.com/thegraphicant/Matangi
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource-variable/matangiDesigned by
The Graphic Ant
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License
OFL-1.1