Smart Fonts for Hindi & English

A smart font is a 'type software' that includes not only the graphical designs of glyphs (such as letters, marks, signs, digits, etc.) but also the rendering logic for displaying those glyphs correctly.

DevaNagari script is used to write Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, Sanskrit, and many other South Asian languages.

We give utmost attention to quality, which is why we cannot offer many fonts.

There are many non-standard (non-Unicode) DevaNagari fonts of ordinary quality available for free download. If you start testing them one by one, you will waste a lot of time.

Our DevaNagari-Latin Font

We have redesigned our type software many times (over 2 decades!) to address issues related to font formats, rendering, resolutions, etc. We have been designing it for various computers and their operating systems.

The name of our smart font is Akhil HE. 'H' in 'Akhil HE' stands for Hindi and 'E' stands for English.

There are many advantages in typesetting bilingual Devanagari-Latin text using our font. This font produces unmatched results while composing either plain DevaNagari text or mixed DevaNagari-Latin text.

If you have bought version 1.0 of this type software and now need the currency sign '₹' in it, please send us an e-mail. You will receive a free upgrade.

Since 2005, this font 'Akhil HE' has been 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 have been carefully drawn and redrawn multiple times to remove even insignificant errors in curves, etc.

We conducted rigorous proofing and thorough testing of 'Akhil HE' on Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, and XP before it was released in 2005. Since then, we have tested it on Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10 and have not found any problems. We have also installed it on a few mobile phones running Android.

The following image shows some plain Hindi-English text rendered using this smart font in Notepad:

Why Buy Our Smart Font?

Do you wonder why you need our DevaNagari smart font when modern operating systems come pre-installed with fonts containing DevaNagari glyphs? Should you buy it when there are many freely downloadable fonts available on the Internet?

For the answer, read the following testimonial by an esteemed professional who bought a license for our font and uses it regularly:

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"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 websites 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 the default, and voilà, the mystery is solved."

"Still another reason is that the English part of the font is equally as clear as the Hindi and well balanced with it. I am often typing the Hindi exercises 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.  

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One of our customers is using 'Akhil HE' as the default font in LibreOffice, just like we do. Akhil HE works great as a default or UI font in most applications, particularly in applications that use lots of UI components / tools like Krita.

Only Apple (iOS) users complain, as the OpenType rendering for complex scripts was implemented incompletely via Apple's AAT technology. We haven't checked their latest OSes. Most of our tech-savvy customers like 'Akhil HE'.

Buy a License for 'Akhil HE'

If you use Windows, Linux, or Android, click the following button to pay for this smart font in currencies like US Dollars using a credit card or PayPal account.

If you want to pay in Rupees (INR; ₹) through PayU Money, click the following button.

If you want to pay via a bank / wire transfer or a demand draft in rupees (INR; ₹), click the following button to obtain our account information.

[The 'single user license' permits you to install 'Akhil HE' on a single PC, laptop or handheld device (like a mobile phone) that you use. You can typeset and print documents using this font. You can give the printed documents (hard copy) to others.]

The following image shows some Hindi-English text typeset (composed) as vector graphics (.svg file) using Akhil HE in LibreOffice. You may want to enlarge this graphic to appreciate it.

Why compromise and use ordinary Hindi fonts?

Help us in developing quality software and fonts for DevaNagari and other Indian scripts.

If you buy it now, you will pay less than what you will in the future. There won't be any discount on single-user licenses. 'Akhil HE' is the main component of our software 'Sugam'. Other small components of Sugam are free for all of our customers. So buying 'Sugam' is the same as buying 'Akhil HE'.

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Whenever you buy a new smartphone, tablet, or laptop, check the quality of the pre-installed Indian fonts, specially the positioning of marks (matra/s) and display at smaller sizes. Some high-end devices come with preinstalled Akhil HE. If none of your devices has preinstalled Akhil HE; please buy its license by clicking on the [Buy Now] button shown on this page.

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If you have already paid for this type software (font) but have not received it even after 3 days, please send us an email.

Sometimes there can be a delay (generally less than 2 days) on our side :-( or because of payment processing. So please inform us if you have any problem regarding delivery even after 3 days of making the payment.

Click here for our email ID.

If you want to use Akhil HE on multiple CPUs (PCs, laptops, mobiles, etc.), please send an email with a description of your requirements, such as the number of CPUs and users.

Write to us if you want to embed Akhil HE in documents / webpages you create.

If you want to wrap this smart font in a 'web open' font wrapper for your website, please ask for a site license. Web open font is a new technology. Check wofonts.com, which we hosted to test the extent to which various browsers can handle 'Akhil HE' as a web open font.

If you know how to root an Android phone, you can replace DroidSansFallback.ttf with this type software. Remember, OpenType support in FreeType/HarfBuzz (which Android uses) is not yet complete, and the positioning of some marks won't be perfect. OpenType support in HarfBuzz is better than in iOS.

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