Hind

Try Hind

Weights and styles

• Light 300Hind Light
• Regular 400Hind Regular
• Medium 500Hind Medium
• SemiBold 600Hind SemiBold
• Bold 700Hind Bold

About Hind

Hind is a sans serif family for the Devanagari and Latin scripts, developed for user interfaces. Its letters have a humanist build with strokes that look almost monolinear, and most strokes end in a flat horizontal or vertical cut, which the specimen shows on the Latin c, e and s; apertures are open. The two scripts are scaled to each other: the Devanagari headline sits just under the Latin capital height, the base characters being 94% as tall as the capitals. The vowel marks lean traditional, the knotted terminals inside the base letters more contemporary. Hind has five static weights, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, without italics, and is not a variable font. The fonts on this page hold 987 glyphs, among them many Devanagari conjuncts. The Indian Type Foundry first published Hind in 2014; its designer is Manushi Parikh. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Hind works

Hindi app and website interfaces

Hind was developed for interface design, and its open apertures keep short Devanagari labels clear on screen.

Hindi and English in one layout

Devanagari base characters are 94% of the Latin capital height, so the two scripts line up in mixed text.

Long Devanagari text

A large set of conjuncts is built in, which lets words in Hindi, Marathi or Nepali be composed correctly in paragraphs.

Dashboards and settings screens

Five weights from Light to Bold mark headings, values and secondary text without changing typeface.

Embedded device displays

The foundry recommends Hind for embedding in electronic displays.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Devanagari. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: devanagari, latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Hind

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Hind on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Hind";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Hind-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hind";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Hind-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hind";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Hind-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Hind";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Hind-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 1 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Hind", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Hind with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Hind:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Five static files

Each weight is a separate file; Hind is not a variable font.

No italic

Hind has upright styles only.

Glyph count

The files described here hold 987 glyphs, while the official description mentions a higher figure for the family.

The specimen shows Latin only

The sample image is set in Latin letters; the Devanagari letterforms are in the same files.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts