Tiro Devanagari Hindi

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Tiro Devanagari Hindi Regular Italic

About Tiro Devanagari Hindi

Tiro Devanagari Hindi is a book typeface for Devanagari that carries its own Latin. The official notes trace it to a face made for the Murty Classical Library of India series and describe the Devanagari as a present-day reading of nineteenth- and twentieth-century metal types such as those of the Nirnaya Sagar Press, with broader proportions, roomier counters and strong diagonal strokes. In this Hindi version the conjuncts mix traditional and modern forms. The Latin shown in the specimen is a sturdy serif with moderate contrast and bracketed serifs, and it includes diacritics for transcribing Indian languages. The open-license release added characters and a new italic. There are two static files, Regular and Italic, with 1,388 glyphs. John Hudson and Fiona Ross designed the Devanagari, Hudson the Latin, and Paul Hanslow adapted the italic. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Tiro Devanagari Hindi works

Literary and classical editions

The design descends from a face made for a classical library series, and its proportions follow traditional metal types for book text.

Devanagari with romanised terms

The built-in Latin has transcription diacritics, so a transliterated word matches the Devanagari beside it in weight and style.

Long reading on screen

The official notes say the design was made with screen media in mind as well as print; its counters are roomy and its proportions broad.

Emphasis and titles of works

The Italic gives a second voice for emphasis, which a single-style Devanagari font cannot offer.

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
• Slovenian
• 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. 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 Tiro Devanagari Hindi

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 Tiro Devanagari Hindi 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: "Tiro Devanagari Hindi";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/TiroDevanagariHindi-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Tiro Devanagari Hindi";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/TiroDevanagariHindi-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Tiro Devanagari Hindi", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Tiro Devanagari Hindi 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=Tiro+Devanagari+Hindi:ital,wght@0,400;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One weight

The family has Regular and Italic and no bold.

Conjuncts tuned for Hindi

This version balances traditional and modern conjunct forms, as the official notes put it.

The Latin is a subset

The Latin part covers Western European languages and transcription diacritics. It is not listed under Latin Extended.

FAQs

Collections with Tiro Devanagari Hindi

• Fonts that support Devanagari

  Open-license families for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and other Devanagari-script languages, each with Latin letters in the same files.

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