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                      About Skolar Devanagari

                      Originally developed for academic publishing, Skolar asserts credibility and sustains comfortable reading. It has established itself as a go-to choice for all kinds of scholarly texts, no matter the field or school of thought: it handles the minutiae of linguistic, scientific, and editorial typography with ease. A classic with a twist, Skolar brings a trace of human touch to serious typography. Thanks to this knack for subtlety, it is also successfully used in other genres from branding to children’s literature.

                      Skolar Devanagari brings the same time-tested credibility of Skolar to academic and professional settings for Indian languages, equipping typographers to deliver an articulate reading experience in Hindi, Marathi, Nepalese, Sanskrit, and more than 30 regional languages, regardless of the subject matter.

                      The designer of the Devanagari, Vaibhav Singh, researched historical and contemporary letterforms and printing to ensure Skolar Devanagari provides the same combination of serious typographic aptitude and artful personality offered by Skolar in other scripts, but in a design created for Indian typography from the ground up. The forms are grounded in traditional Devanagari type anatomy, but add an energy and vitality of their own, for scholarly, scientific, and editorial uses, whether in print or on screen.

                      With an expansive suite of consonant conjuncts and contextual variations for matras and other marks, the family can tackle novel combinations, transliterated words, and unexpected terminology with ease. The linguistic alternate forms and figures and punctuation carefully fitted to the Devanagari script across the range of weights furnish the typographer with the tools to address the most rigorous scholarly treatise or editorial message in any combination of languages.

                      The companion type families Skolar PE (Latin, Cyrillic, Greek) and Skolar Gujarati provide additional language support for nearly four hundred languages.

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                      Standard licence:
                      • desktop: 5 users
                      • web: up to 50K pageviews/month
                      • OTF, TTF, and WOFF2 formats
                      See the licence text for details Buy Fonts Single font: 70 € Family of 5 fonts: 225 €
                      Trial licence:
                      • desktop: 1 user
                      • only for evaluation and testing
                      • OTF with some characters removed
                      See the licence text for details Get Free Trial Fonts

                      Glyph table

                      OpenType features

                      Supported scripts and languages

                      Devanagari

                      16 languages
                      • Awadhi
                      • Bhojpuri
                      • Bodo (India)
                      • Dogri (individual language)
                      • Dotyali
                      • Eastern Tamang
                      • Goan Konkani
                      • Hindi
                      • Kangri
                      • Magahi
                      • Maharashtrian Konkani
                      • Maithili
                      • Marathi
                      • Nepali (individual language)
                      • Sanskrit
                      • Sindhi

                      Latin

                      298 languages
                      • Acheron
                      • Achinese
                      • Acholi
                      • Afar
                      • Afrikaans
                      • Ahtna
                      • Alekano
                      • Aleut
                      • Amahuaca
                      • Amarakaeri
                      • Amis
                      • Anaang
                      • Andaandi, Dongolawi
                      • Anuta
                      • Ao Naga
                      • Aragonese
                      • Arbëreshë Albanian
                      • Arvanitika Albanian
                      • Asháninka
                      • Ashéninka Perené
                      • Asu (Tanzania)
                      • Balinese
                      • Bari
                      • Basque
                      • Batak Dairi
                      • Batak Karo
                      • Batak Mandailing
                      • Batak Simalungun
                      • Batak Toba
                      • Bemba (Zambia)
                      • Bena (Tanzania)
                      • Bikol
                      • Bislama
                      • Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo
                      • Bosnian
                      • Breton
                      • Buginese
                      • Candoshi-Shapra
                      • Caquinte
                      • Caribbean Hindustani
                      • Cashibo-Cacataibo
                      • Catalan
                      • Cebuano
                      • Central Aymara
                      • Central Kurdish
                      • Chamorro
                      • Chavacano
                      • Chiga
                      • Chiltepec Chinantec
                      • Chokwe
                      • Chuukese
                      • Cimbrian
                      • Cofán
                      • Congo Swahili
                      • Cook Islands Māori
                      • Cornish
                      • Corsican
                      • Creek
                      • Crimean Tatar
                      • Croatian
                      • Czech
                      • Danish
                      • Dehu
                      • Dutch
                      • Eastern Arrernte
                      • Eastern Oromo
                      • Embu
                      • English
                      • Ese Ejja
                      • Faroese
                      • Fijian
                      • Filipino
                      • Finnish
                      • French
                      • Friulian
                      • Gagauz
                      • Galician
                      • Ganda
                      • Garifuna
                      • Ga’anda
                      • German
                      • Gheg Albanian
                      • Gilbertese
                      • Gooniyandi
                      • Gourmanchéma
                      • Guadeloupean Creole French
                      • Gusii
                      • Haitian
                      • Hani
                      • Hiligaynon
                      • Ho-Chunk
                      • Hopi
                      • Huastec
                      • Hungarian
                      • Icelandic
                      • Iloko
                      • Inari Sami
                      • Indonesian
                      • Irish
                      • Istro Romanian
                      • Italian
                      • Ixcatlán Mazatec
                      • Jamaican Creole English
                      • Japanese
                      • Javanese
                      • Jola-Fonyi
                      • K'iche'
                      • Kabuverdianu
                      • Kala Lagaw Ya
                      • Kalaallisut
                      • Kalenjin
                      • Kamba (Kenya)
                      • Kaonde
                      • Kaqchikel
                      • Karelian
                      • Kashubian
                      • Kekchí
                      • Kenzi, Mattokki
                      • Khasi
                      • Kikuyu
                      • Kimbundu
                      • Kinyarwanda
                      • Kituba (DRC)
                      • Kongo
                      • Konzo
                      • Kuanyama
                      • Kven Finnish
                      • Kölsch
                      • Ladin
                      • Ladino
                      • Latgalian
                      • Ligurian
                      • Lithuanian
                      • Lombard
                      • Low German
                      • Lower Sorbian
                      • Lozi
                      • Luba-Lulua
                      • Lule Sami
                      • Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
                      • Luxembourgish
                      • Macedo-Romanian
                      • Makhuwa
                      • Makhuwa-Meetto
                      • Makonde
                      • Makwe
                      • Malagasy
                      • Malaysian
                      • Maltese
                      • Mandinka
                      • Mandjak
                      • Mankanya
                      • Manx
                      • Maore Comorian
                      • Maori
                      • Mapudungun
                      • Marshallese
                      • Matsés
                      • Mauritian Creole
                      • Meriam Mir
                      • Meru
                      • Minangkabau
                      • Mirandese
                      • Mohawk
                      • Montenegrin
                      • Munsee
                      • Murrinh-Patha
                      • Mwani
                      • Mískito
                      • Naga Pidgin
                      • Ndonga
                      • Neapolitan
                      • Ngazidja Comorian
                      • Niuean
                      • Nobiin
                      • Nomatsiguenga
                      • North Ndebele
                      • Northern Kurdish
                      • Northern Qiandong Miao
                      • Northern Sami
                      • Northern Uzbek
                      • Norwegian
                      • Nyanja
                      • Nyankole
                      • Occitan
                      • Ojitlán Chinantec
                      • Orma
                      • Oroqen
                      • Otuho
                      • Palauan
                      • Paluan
                      • Pampanga
                      • Papantla Totonac
                      • Papiamento
                      • Pedi
                      • Picard
                      • Pichis Ashéninka
                      • Piemontese
                      • Pijin
                      • Pintupi-Luritja
                      • Pipil
                      • Pite Sami
                      • Pohnpeian
                      • Polish
                      • Portuguese
                      • Potawatomi
                      • Purepecha
                      • Quechua
                      • Romanian
                      • Romansh
                      • Rotokas
                      • Rundi
                      • Rwa
                      • Samburu
                      • Samoan
                      • Sango
                      • Sangu (Tanzania)
                      • Saramaccan
                      • Sardinian
                      • Scottish Gaelic
                      • Sena
                      • Seri
                      • Seselwa Creole French
                      • Shambala
                      • Shawnee
                      • Shipibo-Conibo
                      • Shona
                      • Sicilian
                      • Silesian
                      • Slovak
                      • Slovenian
                      • Soga
                      • Somali
                      • Soninke
                      • South Ndebele
                      • Southern Aymara
                      • Southern Qiandong Miao
                      • Southern Sami
                      • Southern Sotho
                      • Spanish
                      • Sranan Tongo
                      • Standard Estonian
                      • Standard Latvian
                      • Standard Malay
                      • Sundanese
                      • Swahili
                      • Swati
                      • Swedish
                      • Swiss German
                      • Tagalog
                      • Tahitian
                      • Taita
                      • Tedim Chin
                      • Tetum
                      • Tetun Dili
                      • Tiv
                      • Tok Pisin
                      • Tokelau
                      • Tonga (Tonga Islands)
                      • Tonga (Zambia)
                      • Tosk Albanian
                      • Tsonga
                      • Tswana
                      • Tumbuka
                      • Turkish
                      • Turkmen
                      • Tzeltal
                      • Tzotzil
                      • Uab Meto
                      • Ume Sami
                      • Upper Guinea Crioulo
                      • Upper Sorbian
                      • Venetian
                      • Veps
                      • Võro
                      • Walloon
                      • Walser
                      • Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa
                      • Waray (Philippines)
                      • Warlpiri
                      • Wayuu
                      • Welsh
                      • West Central Oromo
                      • Western Abnaki
                      • Western Frisian
                      • Wik-Mungkan
                      • Wiradjuri
                      • Wolof
                      • Xhosa
                      • Yanesha'
                      • Yao
                      • Yapese
                      • Yindjibarndi
                      • Yucateco
                      • Zapotec
                      • Zulu
                      • Zuni
                      • Záparo

                      Credits

                      Leads

                      Vaibhav Singh Design

                      Vaibhav Singh is an independent typographer and typeface designer. He holds degrees in architecture, visual communication, typeface design, literature, and book history. He was awarded the Felix scholarship for his MA as well as for his PhD at the University of Reading, where he was subsequently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. He specialises in designing typefaces for Indian scripts in addition to developing Latin typefaces, and is the co-founder of the London-based design studio Typeland.

                      Assistance

                      David Březina Art-direction and production
                      Fiona Ross Devanagari consultancy
                      Johannes Neumeier Font engineering

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