It is very confusing for a new learners that which Hindi font should be used for Hindi typing, so we are providing details about type of Hindi fonts. Hindi fonts are available free of cost to download.

Hindi Font can be of two types:

1. Legacy Hindi Font

2. Unicode Hindi Font

1. Legacy Hindi Font

Legacy Hindi fonts are those that we use normally for Hindi Typing like Devlys, Kruti Dev, Chankya, Krishna, KBC and many more fonts. If you want to check that these Hindi fonts are legacy or not then you have to double click on these fonts, if these font display Hindi that it will be confirmed that these fonts are legacy Hindi fonts. These fonts are widely used in India for Hindi Typing. So, Download and install these Hindi fonts in your computer.

DevLys is first most commonly used font for Hindi Typing in many Typing Test Examination.

Free Download - DevLys Font

Free Download - DevLys Font Typing Software

Kruti Dev is second most commonly used font for Hindi Typing in many Typing Test Examination.

Free Download - Kruti Dev Font

Free Download - Kruti Dev Font Typing Software

2. Unicode Hindi Font

A unicode font (also known as UCS font and Unicode typeface) is a computer font that contains a wide range of characters, letters, digits, glyphs, symbols, ideograms, logograms, etc., which are collectively mapped into the standard Universal Character Set, derived from many different languages and scripts from around the world. Unlike most conventional computer fonts, which are specific to a particular language or legacy character set and contain only a small subset of the UCS characters, these fonts attempt to include many thousands of possible glyphs, so that they can be used as a single typeface across multilingual documents.

You can use "Mangal" font for Hindi Typing on Websites, Blogs & Online Work because it is a unicode font. Lot of time when you are working online and watch Hindi characters on many websites these are Unicode fonts. You can easily check these these fonts are Unicode fonts or not by double clicking on these fonts. If you watch English characters then after double clicking its prove that these are Unicode fonts. You have to use a special software tool for Unicode font, if you want to type in Hindi Unicode Language.

Free Download - Mangal Unicode Font

Free Download - Mangal Unicode Font Typing Software

Free Download - Mangal Remington Gail Typing Software

Free Download - Mangal Inscript Typing Software

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