Tiro Devanagari Hindi

Tiro Devanagari Hindi began as the Devanagari for the Murty Classical Library of India, a series of classical Indian literature, and it shows: this is a book face, steeped in the metal types of the Nirnaya Sagar Press of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The letters are broad, with generous counters and strong diagonal strokes, and the conjuncts balance traditional and modern forms. It comes with a true italic — unusual for Devanagari — and a Latin set with the diacritics used to transcribe Indian languages.

Choose it for literature, scholarly work, poetry and anything printed at length. For screens and small interface text, a sans such as Hind is the safer companion.