Hindi English Fonts

Unicode based DevaNagari Latin Fonts

We give more attention to quality than quantity; that's why we don't offer lots of fonts.

There are so many non-standard (hack encoded) DevaNagari fonts of poor quality available for free download on the Internet. If you start testing them one by one you will waste a lot of time!

We have designed three standard-based fonts of just one typeface - 'Akhil'. There are lots of advantages in typesetting bilingual DevaNagari-Latin text or plain English text using our fonts.

Hindi English Font

We have edited our main font ('Akhil HE') many times for issues relating to font formats, rendering, resolutions, etc. We have been designing this font for various computers and their operating systems.

This font 'Akhil HE' is now a professionally hinted, Unicode compliant, OpenType font for DevaNagari and Latin scripts. Its OT Layout tables for DevaNagari are very logical and meticulously formulated. The glyphs (shapes/letter-forms) in 'Akhil HE' are clean and carefully drawn and redrawn again and again to avoid and remove smallest error in curves and straight lines.

'H' in 'Akhil HE' stands for Hindi and 'E' for English.

We did rigorous proofing and thorough testing of 'Akhil HE'. It was released in 2004-2005. If you have any question regarding this font, send an email to us.

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Following plain Unicode text is typesetted using this font in Notepad!

Marathi English Font

There is a companion font 'Akhil ME' (M for Marathi) which is almost simillar to 'Akhil_HE.ttf'. Only shapes of Nagari digits '5', '8' and '9' are as per requirements of Marathi.

Best Screen Font

Following plain English text is typesetted in smallest possible size using the same font 'Akhil HE'! Try typesetting simillar text using your favorite English font. You will agree that it is a good font.

Why to buy our DevaNagari-English Unicode Font?

Do you wonder why you need a DevaNagari font when modern OSes come pre-installed font(s) containing DevaNagari glyphs? Should you buy when there are some freely downloadable fonts available via the Internet?

For the answers, read the testimonial by an esteemed person (who bought a license for our font and is using it regularly.)

"I really like the 'Akhil HE' font. None of the freely available fonts are as useful to me as I attempt to learn to read and type Hindi."

"Why? There are several reasons, let me list three of them."

"The most important is that it is clearly legible. Even at smaller font sizes it is the easiest Devanagari font to read. Other fonts require that I increase the point size before they become clear, limiting the amount of text I can display at any one time. If you surf even some of the commercial web sites in Hindi you will see what I mean. For me, it is most important to see the Hindi characters clearly."

"Another reason I like the 'Akhil HE' font is for the 'Saral Nagari' approach. As a beginner, learning Hindi on my own, uncommon conjuncts pose a problem. With 'Akhil HE', I can often cut a Hindi word with an unfamiliar conjunct that has been displayed in another Unicode font, and paste it into a document with 'Akhil HE' as default, and voila the mystery is solved."

"Still another reason is the the English part of the font is equally as clear as the Hindi, and well balanced with it. I am often typing the Hindi exercizes from one of my workbooks, working them out, then typing the English alongside. With 'Akhil HE', I don't need to change fonts or font sizes very often."
                                  - Gerry T.

Buy this Font 'Akhil HE' Now

If you want to buy just a single user license of this font click the following button. Don't think that because you don't have to type in Hindi, Marathi, etc., you don't require this font; you can typeset your regular English text with it.

Click the following button to pay for this font in US Dollors.

[If you are a resident of India and want to pay (in Rupees) thru a check or demand-draft, click the following button.]

[The 'single user license' permits you to install 'Akhil HE' (or 'Akhil ME') on a single PC or Laptop that you use. You can typeset and print documents using this documents. You can give the printed-documents (hard-copy) to others. But embedding this font in any document is not allowed, if you wish to embed this font in the documents you create for others you should ask for an extended license.]

If you want to use font in Web-pages or install it in many CPUs please write an email describing your requirements like number of CPUs and whether you want to embed this font in documents/web-pages you create. Our email ID is a@softfonts.com.

To see 'Sanskrit - Hindi text' (Gayatri/Gayatree Mantra) typesetted using this font click here.

Following text will be typesetted by your browser in the default Unicode compliant DevaNagari font which is available in your system.
हिन्दी, मराठी, संस्कृत, नेपाली, देवनागरी, फ़ॉन्ट्स, फ़ॉन्ट।

Compare the above text with the following text typesetted with our font 'Akhil HE'.

Why to compromise and use ordinary Hindi Devanagari fonts dumped by computer vendors?

If you buy it now you will be paying less than what you will pay for it in future. Help us in developing quality software and fonts for Indian scripts and languages.