Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit Regular Italic

About Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit

Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit is a serif typeface for setting Devanagari, with a matching Latin. It grew out of a design made for the books of the Murty Classical Library of India; literary publishing is therefore its home ground, though screen use was considered too. The Devanagari takes a contemporary approach to 19th and 20th century metal types such as those of the Nirnaya Sagar Press, with broad proportions, open counters and strong diagonal strokes. This Sanskrit version prefers traditional conjunct shapes, and the open release added signs for Vedic texts. The Latin shown in the specimen is a sturdy bookish serif with moderate contrast, and it carries diacritics for transcribing Indian languages. There are two styles, Regular and Italic, at one weight, with 1,812 glyphs. John Hudson and Fiona Ross are the designers; Paul Hanslow adapted the italic. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit works

Editions of classical texts

Traditional conjunct forms and Vedic signs serve scholarly and literary publishing in Devanagari.

Transliteration alongside the original

The Latin subset includes diacritics for transcription, so romanised lines match the Devanagari in weight and tone.

Bilingual book pages

Latin and Devanagari drawn as one design keep facing-page translations even in colour.

Emphasis and citations

The Italic companion marks titles and quoted terms without changing family.

Long-form reading on screen

Broad proportions and open counters were chosen with screen media in mind as well as print.

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 Sanskrit

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

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

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

Things to know

Regular and Italic, one weight

The family has two styles at weight 400. There is no bold.

Traditional conjuncts

This version favours the traditional forms of Devanagari conjuncts over simplified modern ones.

Latin is a basic set plus transcription marks

The Latin subset is latin, extended with diacritics for transliteration rather than for the full range of European languages.

FAQs

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