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Introduction

The Devanagari script is a Brahmi-derived writing system used originally to write Sanskrit. It is used in India and Nepal to write many languages, including these:

Font Samples (page 1 of 2)

font sample * font information
Sample of AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L1 at 36pt AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L1    [ show all samples ]  (AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L1.ttf)
Source: Free download from the Database of Indian Sacred Scriptures at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 347 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L2 at 36pt AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L2    [ show all samples ]  (AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L2.ttf)
Note: Has fewer ligatures than AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L1.
Source: Free download from the Database of Indian Sacred Scriptures at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 347 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3 at 36pt AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3    [ show all samples ]  (AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3.ttf)
Note: Has vertical ligatures.
Source: Free download from the Database of Indian Sacred Scriptures at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 347 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of Akhil HE at 34pt Akhil HE    [ show all samples ]  (Akhil_HE.TTF)
Note: Fine-tuned (instructed) for better display at small point sizes.
Source: Available for purchase from ISE - Aditi Info.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 397 glyphs and 116 kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Latin
Sample of Akshar Unicode at 28pt Akshar Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (Akshar.ttf)
Source: Free download from Kamban Software.
Stats: Version 0.07 December 23, 2004 has 1,751 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari, Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Kannada, Malayalam (old style), Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu
Sample of Arial Unicode MS at 28pt Arial Unicode MS    [ show all samples ]  (arialuni.ttf)
Source: Comes with Microsoft's Office 2000, FrontPage 2000, Office XP and Publisher 2002.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 50,377 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Balochi, Persian, Shahmukhi, Urdu), Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Kannada, Korean (Hangul only), Latin, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Farsi, Urdu), Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic (default, Japanese, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional), Kana (default, Japanese), Kannada, Korean, Tamil
Sample of CDAC-GISTSurekh at 26pt CDAC-GISTSurekh    [ show all samples ]  (CDACSRNT.TTF and CDACSRBT.TTF [bold])
Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.
Stats: Version 2.0 has 666 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of CDAC-GISTYogesh at 24pt CDAC-GISTYogesh    [ show all samples ]  (CDACYGNT.TTF [normal], CDACYGBT.TTF [bold], and CDACYGIT.TTF [italic] from GISTYogeshN.zip)
Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.
Stats: Version 2.0 has 666 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of Chandas at 28pt Chandas    [ show all samples ]  (Chandas.ttf)
Note: Designed for Classical Sanskrit & Vedic (with accents). This font supports thousands of ligatures and is also usable for modern languages written with Devanagari.
Style: Chandas uses the Calcutta/Kolkata style of Devanagari script while its sister font Uttara uses the Bombay/Mumbai style (although it's not evident with the characters used as the sample text).
Source: Free download from Chandas.
Stats: Version 1.2 has 5,002 glyphs and 1,597 kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Latin (with extensive coverage of letters with diacritics)
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Latin
Sample of Code2000 at 26pt Code2000    [ show all samples ]  (code2000.ttf)
Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage.
Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
Sample of Devanagari MT at 28pt Devanagari MT    [ show all samples ]  (akshdeva.ttf)
Source: Installed with the free edition of Aksharamala 2004. Requires registration.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 696 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of DVBOTSurekh at 26pt DVBOTSurekh    [ show all samples ]  (DVBOTSRN.ttf)
Source: Free download from Deutsche Welle's Hindi page.
Stats: Version 5/17/2003 has 654 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of FreeSans at 28pt FreeSans    [ show all samples ]  (FreeSans.ttf, FreeSansBold.ttf, FreeSansOblique.ttf, and FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz)
Note: Bold and oblique styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font.
Source: Free download from Savannah.
Stats: Version 1.76 has 2,734 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Armenian, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin
Sample of Gargi at 26pt Gargi    [ show all samples ]  (Gargi.ttf)
Source: Free download from project janabhaaratii.
Stats: Version 1.9 has 450 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Devanagari
Sample of Gurumaa at 28pt Gurumaa    [ show all samples ]  (Gurumaa_v128.ttf [regular], Gurumaa_v128_b.ttf [bold], Gurumaa_v128_i.ttf [italic], and Gurumaa_v128_bi.ttf [bold italic] from 16645-Gurumaa_v128.tar.bz2)
Source: Free download from KDE-LOOK (Linux).
Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .bz2 download.
Stats: Version 1.28 has 270 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of Jaipur Unicode NFLC at 22pt Jaipur Unicode NFLC    [ show all samples ]  (Jaipur Unicode NFLC.ttf from jaipurunicode.zip)
Source: Free download from the Hindi page at the University of Pennsylvania.
Stats: Version 6/1/99 has 523 glyphs and 413 kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Latin
Sample of JanaHindi at 22pt JanaHindi    [ show all samples ]  (RKJanaHindi.TTF from janahindi.zip)
Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.
Stats: Version 0.99.1 has 675 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of JanaMarathi at 30pt JanaMarathi    [ show all samples ]  (RVJanaMarathi.TTF from janamarathi.zip)
Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.
Stats: Version 1.00 July 7, 2004 has 680 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of JanaSanskrit at 24pt JanaSanskrit    [ show all samples ]  (RJJanaSanskrit.TTF from JanaSanskrit.zip)
Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.
Stats: Version 0.99.1 has 941 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of Kalimati at 26pt Kalimati    [ show all samples ]  (Kalimati.ttf)
Source: Free download from the font guide section of Nepali-language book archive Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya.
Stats: Version 1.20 has 696 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of Kanjirowa at 26pt Kanjirowa    [ show all samples ]  (Kanjirowa.ttf)
Source: Free download from the font guide section of Nepali-language book archive Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya.
Stats: Version 1.0 has 702 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of Lohit Hindi at 36pt Lohit Hindi    [ show all samples ]  (lohit_hi.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz)
Source: Free download from Ubuntu.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 344 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of Lucida Sans at 28pt Lucida Sans    [ show all samples ]  (LucidaSansRegular.ttf, LucidaSansDemiBold.ttf, and may be others depending on the source)
Note: The LSANS.TTF version of this font supports Latin only.
Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2.
Stats: Version 1.20 has 2,929 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of Mangal at 24pt Mangal    [ show all samples ]  (mangal.ttf)
Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000.
Stats: Version 1.20 has 675 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of Osho at 28pt Osho    [ show all samples ]  (Osho_v125.ttf [regular], Osho_v125_b.ttf [bold], Osho_v125_i.ttf [italic], and Osho_v125_bi.ttf [bold italic] from 177720-Osho_v125.tar.bz2)
Source: Free download from KDE-LOOK (Linux).
Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .bz2 download.
Stats: Version 1.25 has 270 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of Raghindi at 20pt Raghindi    [ show all samples ]  (raghu.ttf)
Note: Raghu and Raghu8 (raghu1.ttf) were beta versions of Raghindi.
Source: Free download from Nepali.Info language site.
Stats: Version 0.99 has 675 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of RaghuHindi at 22pt RaghuHindi    [ show all samples ]  (RKRaghuHindi_ship.ttf)
Warning: There are issues using this font in Microsoft Word. It seems to work OK in other editors including BabelPad, WordPad, Notepad, and WorldPad.
Source: Free download from IndiX: Indian Language support for the Linux Operating System.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 675 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of Samanata at 28pt Samanata    [ show all samples ]  (Samanata.ttf)
Source: Free download from Nepali-language book archive Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 793 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
Sample of Samyak at 24pt Samyak    [ show all samples ]  (Samyak.ttf)
Source: Free download from gnowledge.org.
Stats: Version 1.0 has 1,147 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Gujarati, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil
Sample of SamyakSans at 28pt SamyakSans    [ show all samples ]  (SamyakSans.ttf)
Source: Free download from gnowledge.org.
Stats: Version 1.0 has 2,045 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil
 

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