Tiro Bangla
Tiro Typeworks · John Hudson, Fiona Ross, Neelakash Kshetrimayum
A free two-style Bengali text typeface by John Hudson and Fiona Ross, with italic adaptation by Neelakash Kshetrimayum, covering over 1,200 glyphs across Bengali and extended Latin.
About
Designed by John Hudson and Fiona Ross, two of the foremost specialists in complex-script typography, Tiro Bangla offers a Regular and Italic for Bengali script alongside a broad extended Latin character set. The glyph set of over 1,200 characters reflects the thoroughness typical of Tiro Typeworks' scholarly approach to non-Latin type design. Fonts and sources are freely available via GitHub under the Tiro Typeworks public repository.
Classification
Tiro Bangla is a serif typeface designed for the Bengali script with accompanying Latin support; the design follows humanist serif conventions adapted for Indic script typography.