Tiro Devanagari Hindi

Designed by Tiro Typeworks, John Hudson, Fiona Ross, Paul Hanslow

1 weights • Version 5 • On Google Fonts since 2022 • Popularity #874

Quick Summary

2

Styles · incl. italic

400-400

Weight Range

Static

Not variable

3

Languages / Subsets

Category
serif
Best for
display
Scripts
Devanagari, Latin
Origin
Vancouver, Canada
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
May 30, 2025

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About Tiro Devanagari Hindi Fonts

Tiro Devanagari Hindi has its origins in a typeface designed for the Murty Classical Library of India book series, so is especially suited to traditional literary publishing but also made with the needs of today’s multiple print and screen media in mind. The Tiro Devanagari design applies a contemporary approach to the traditional styling of 19th and 20th Century metal types exemplified in those of the renowned Nirnaya Sagar Press, and is characterised by broader proportions, more generous counters, and strong diagonal strokes and terminals. The Hindi font balances traditional and modern forms of conjuncts. For the Open Font License release, Tiro Devanagari Hindi has been extended to support additional characters, and features a new italic companion. Each font also includes a Latin subset including diacritics for transcription of Indian languages.

Tiro Devanagari Hindi was designed by John Hudson and Fiona Ross. The italic was adapted by Paul Hanslow.

To contribute, see github.com/TiroTypeworks/Indigo.

To learn more, read Modern Tiro Indic collection for classical South Asian texts.

Who Designed Tiro Devanagari Hindi?

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Tiro Typeworks is a small type foundry specialising in custom fonts for multilingual publishing and computing. Tiro’s clients include Adobe, Apple, Brill, Google, Harvard University Press, Microsoft, the STI Pub consortium, and other specialist publishers and scholarly organisations.

John Hudson is a Canadian type designer and font maker, and co-founder of Tiro Typeworks (1994).

Fiona Ross specializes in type design primarily for Arabic, South Asian, and Thai scripts. She works as a consultant, type designer, author, and Professor in Type Design (part-time) at the University of Reading (UK). Fiona has received the SoTA Typography Award (2014) and the Type Director’s Club Medal (2018).

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Paul Hanslow is an Australian born typeface designer, currently working for Tiro Typeworks in Vancouver, Canada.

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