Benne is an open-source typeface designed and developed by Shandon Type with finaincial support from Google and consulting by Erin Mclaughlin. It is a text font with an intended context of text rich documents of medium/long lengths. As it was designed to harmonise with the Latin font EB Garamond (originally designed by Georg Duffner), it works well in multiscript environments.

Benne is a unicode font that supports a wide variety of languages across two scripts including Kannada, Konkani, Sankethi and Tulu, as well as the major Latin-based Central European (CE) languages. It can also be expanded to support other related writing systems. Kannada script: Kannada, Konkani, Sankethi and Tulu. Latin script (Adobe Latin 3 character set): major Latin-based Central European (CE) languages (a.k.a. Roman languages) as well as Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Croatian (Latin), Czech, Estonian, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, Gagauz (Latin), German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Javanese (Latin), Kashubian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay (Latin), Moldovan (Latin), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian (Latin), Sami (Southern, Northern, Inari, and Lule), Serbian (Latin), Silesian, Sorbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, and Walloon.

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. and will be available via Google Fonts.

This version is a pre-release. Please file issues should you notice any.