Tiro Telugu
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/tiro-telugu2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Tiro Telugu", 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
Tiro Telugu has its origins in a typeface designed for the Murty Classical Library of India book series, so is especially suited to traditional literary publishing but also made with the needs of today’s multiple print and screen media in mind. The design combines the proportions of Telugu manuscript tradition, notably in the generous proportions of subscript letters to aid legibility with the pronounced stroke modulation and shaping of counters and finials inspired by the elegant metal types of the Swatantra Type Foundry. Tiro Telugu uses extensive contextual layout behaviour to support arbitrary conjuncts, making it suitable for Sanskrit and Pali as well as Telugu language texts. For the Open Font License release, Tiro Telugu has been extended to support additional characters, and features a new italic companion. Each font also includes a Latin subset including diacritics for transcription of Indian languages.
Tiro Telugu was designed by John Hudson and Fiona Ross. The italic was adapted by Kaja Słojewska.
To contribute, see github.com/TiroTypeworks/Indigo.
To learn more, read Modern Tiro Indic collection for classical South Asian texts.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource/tiro-teluguDesigned by
Tiro Typeworks, John Hudson, Fiona Ross, Kaja Słojewska
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License
OFL-1.1