Shanti

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What do I do with this?

Just want to use the font? Click "Get this font on Google Fonts" to download it or add it directly to a document, design tool (like Canva or Photoshop), or your computer's font list.

Building a website? Click "Copy Font Code" to copy a short snippet, then paste it into your website's HTML (usually inside the <head> section) to use this font on your site.

Shanti is a clean, humanist sans-serif with a calm and measured aesthetic. Its letterforms are balanced and neutral, carrying a slight warmth that keeps it from feeling cold or overly technical. The strokes have a consistent weight with modest contrast, giving it a professional but approachable quality. It reads well at mid-range sizes and holds its own in shorter blocks of text without drawing too much attention to itself.

Shanti works well in wellness and lifestyle branding where the goal is to communicate clarity and ease without aggressive visual energy. It fits comfortably in UI contexts such as navigation labels, form fields, and dashboard interfaces where legibility matters more than personality. It also suits editorial subheadings or category labels in digital publications, where it can organize content without competing with a more expressive display font above it.

Best suited for: Consider Shanti for digital interfaces, wellness branding, editorial navigation, and content organization where calm clarity and professional approachability are priorities.

Design considerations: Shanti's single regular weight limits typographic hierarchy options, making it best suited for supporting roles rather than primary display use. Its humanist warmth and consistent stroke weight work across mid-range sizes, though pairing with a more expressive typeface can help establish visual distinction between content layers.

Pairing guidance: Pair Shanti with Playfair Display for elegant editorial layouts where the serif provides sophisticated contrast and headline presence, with Lora for refined body text or secondary content that maintains warmth and readability, or with Caveat to introduce personal, handwritten character in accent applications like signatures or testimonials.

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Which languages does Shanti support?

Shanti includes 2 character sets:

• Latin: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and other Western European languages
• Latin Extended: Central and Eastern European languages such as Polish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian and Hungarian

It does not include Cyrillic or Greek characters, so it can't set Russian, Ukrainian or Greek text.

Can I use Shanti commercially?

Yes, it's free for personal and commercial use. Shanti is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it in logos, websites, apps, videos, printed products and merchandise without paying or asking permission. The one thing you can't do is sell the font file on its own.

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