Biryani is a libre font development project. Its fonts are designed in a monolinear, geometric sans serif style. Like several early geometric sans typefaces from the last century, Biryani’s characters have a strong flavor to them; they are more wonky than sterile. Biryani’s fonts are indeed meant for text, just not necessarily for very long, immersive reading-length passages. The letterforms are a bit too “display” for that.

Currently, the Biryani fonts support the Latin and Devangari scripts, meaning that Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali may be set with the fonts, in addition to most Western and Central European languages.

The Biryani project is led by Dan Reynolds, a type designer based in Berlin, Germany. To contribute, visit github.com/typeoff/biryani

Biryani font contains 474 defined characters and 353 unique glyphs. The font contains characters from the following unicode character ranges: Basic Latin (93), Latin-1 Supplement (93), Latin Extended-A (103), Latin Extended-B (6), Spacing Modifier Letters (8), Combining Diacritical Marks (1), Devanagari (123), Latin Extended Additional (8), General Punctuation (17), Currency Symbols (2), Letterlike Symbols (1), Mathematical Operators (12), Geometric Shapes (2), Alphabetic Presentation Forms (2).

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