Shanti

Name: Shanti
Author: Natanael Gama

Shanti delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Natanael Gama94% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Ways to Use Shanti

Best Font Pairings for Shanti

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Shanti, including combinations with DejaVu Serif, Theano Modern and Permian Serif.

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

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Test Shanti Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Shanti with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans 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

Shanti Specimen Gallery

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Shanti Editorial Specimen

Shanti in Editorial Context

Shanti is a sans serif typeface by Natanael Gama suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Natanael Gama

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

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

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

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

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Shanti Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Shanti Specimen

Shanti

Shanti is a sans serif typeface by Natanael Gama built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface

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Shanti

SHANTI

SHANTITYPE

Tagline Pairings

Shanti— sans serif typeface

ShantiBy Natanael Gama

ShantiTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Shanti Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Shanti Body Typography

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

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

When setting Shanti 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.

Shanti 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	Shanti delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Shanti italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Shanti bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Shanti typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Shanti typography specimen

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

Quick Start

Integrating Shanti

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Shanti

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Shanti', 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        'shanti': ['Shanti', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-shanti">Your text here</p>

About

The Story of Shanti

Natanael Gama

Sans Serif

Open Source

Representing sans-serif typeface design, Shanti showcases refined neutrality and Swiss precision, making it well-suited for corporate branding. Its clean lines and modern aesthetic contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for corporate branding and digital interfaces, Shanti adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The \"Shanti\" font supports Latin script, enabling the display of text in languages such as English....

Shanti was created by Natanael Gama. Known for serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Shanti's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Shanti features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for screen-first digital products and web applications.

Shanti is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Shanti

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Shanti's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. Typographic analysis places Shanti within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 94). Shanti performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts. Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category.

Design Heritage

Designed by Natanael Gama. Known for serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Shanti's stroke consistency and typographic color across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Shanti

Shanti is classified as a Lineal typeface, rooted in the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for screen-first digital products and web applications. TypeSmith indexes Shanti in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Shanti

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Fonts Similar to Shanti

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Shanti based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Shanti Accessibility Profile

Shanti scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

Legibility Analysis: Shanti

Shanti draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Shanti Reading Performance

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Shanti's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Shanti provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Shanti Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Shanti. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Shanti at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Design Tips for Shanti

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Shanti. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Shanti in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Get Shanti

Available on Google Fonts

4 weights available for download

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Available Weights

400

Regular

400

Regular Italic

700

Bold

700

Bold Italic

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Shanti Multilingual Support

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

The \"Shanti\" font supports Latin script, enabling the display of text in languages such as English, Spanish, French, German, and other Western European languages that utilize the Latin alphabet.

Legal

Shanti License Information

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Shanti is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Shanti ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

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

Shanti

Best Ways to Use Shanti

Best Font Pairings for Shanti

Test Shanti Font Pairings Live

In Context

Shanti Typography

Shanti

Character Set

Type Scale

Shanti Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Shanti Accessibility Profile

Legibility Analysis: Shanti

Shanti Reading Performance

Shanti's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Shanti Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Shanti

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Shanti

Best Ways to Use Shanti

Best Font Pairings for Shanti

Test Shanti Font Pairings Live

In Context

Shanti Typography

Shanti

Character Set

Type Scale

Shanti Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Shanti Accessibility Profile

Legibility Analysis: Shanti

Shanti Reading Performance

Shanti's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Shanti Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Shanti

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference