Halant

Name: Halant
Author: Manushi Parikh

Halant brings classic elegance to your typography with refined serifs that guide the eye through extended reading.

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Serifby Manushi Parikh87% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Ways to Use Halant

Best Font Pairings for Halant

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Halant, including combinations with Cossette Texte, Inter and Epunda Sans.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Halant with any font combination in real-time, optimized for serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

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Halant Editorial Specimen

Halant in Editorial Context

Halant is a serif typeface by Manushi Parikh suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Manushi Parikh

Typeface Designer • Serif

Halant demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Halant supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Manushi Parikh, Halant balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Halant Typography

A serif typeface for UI components.

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Halant Specimen

Halant

Halant is a serif typeface by Manushi Parikh built for display contexts.

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Halant— serif typeface

HalantBy Manushi Parikh

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Halant Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Copy

Halant Body Typography

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Halant, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Halant demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Halant for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Halant small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Halant delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Halant italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Halant bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Halant typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Halant typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Halant'; }

Quick Start

Adding Halant to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Halant:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Halant:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Halant';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Halant');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Halant', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Halant', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'halant': ['Halant', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-halant">Your text here</p>

About

About Halant

Manushi Parikh

Serif

Open Source

Halant brings calligraphic influence and natural flow, making it well-suited for editorial design. Its decorative terminals and classical proportions contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for book typography and formal documents, Halant adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes Halant supports a variety of Indic scripts including Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malaya....

Halant comes from the work of Manushi Parikh. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Classicals classification, Halant features bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for brand identities conveying authority and heritage.

Halant is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Halant

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Best Ways to Use Halant

Best Font Pairings for Halant

Test Halant Font Pairings Live

In Context

Halant Typography

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Character Set

Type Scale

Halant Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

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Using Halant Accessibly

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