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About Noto Serif Devanagari.

Noto is a global font collection for writing in all modern and ancient languages. Noto Serif Devanagari is a modulated (“serif”) design for texts in the Indic Devanagari script. It has multiple weights and widths, and 871 glyphs.

Designer
Google
Classification
Serif
Coverage
78 languages
Package release
v34
Updated
Mar 12, 2026
Monthly usage
  • npm3,472 downloads last month
  • jsDelivr1,466,389 requests last month
License
OFL-1.1

Style and character

Visual characteristics associated with this family.

  • Competent
  • Sincere
  • Transitional

The story

Noto Serif Devanagari is a modulated (“serif”) design for texts in the Indic Devanagari script.

Noto Serif Devanagari has multiple weights and widths, contains 871 glyphs, 18 OpenType features, and supports 272 characters from 6 Unicode blocks: Devanagari, Vedic Extensions, Devanagari Extended, Basic Latin, General Punctuation, Common Indic Number Forms.

Supported writing systems

Devanagari

Devanagari (Negari, देवनागरी) is an Indic abugida, written left-to-right with a headstroke (over 600 million users). Used in India and Nepal for over 120 languages like Indo-Aryan languages, including Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, Maithili, Awadhi, Newari and Bhojpuri, and for Sanskrit. 4th most widely used script in the world. Brahmic script created in the 1st century CE, the modern form developed in the 7th century. Has 14 vowels and 33 consonants. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on ScriptSource, Unicode, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, r12a.

Characters and features

What this family includes and how its files are structured.

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Language and character coverage

Devanagari is the primary writing system.

  • AngikaDevanagari
  • Awadhiअवधी · Devanagari
  • Bantawa (Devanagari)
  • BagheliDevanagari
  • HaryanviDevanagari
  • BhiliDevanagari
  • BhilaliDevanagari
  • Bhojpuriभोजपुरी · Devanagari
  • KanaujiDevanagari
  • BrajDevanagari
  • Bodoबरʼ · Devanagari
  • BateriDevanagari
  • Bhujel (Devanagari)
  • Chantyal (Devanagari)
  • Dhimal (Devanagari)
  • Dhanwar, Nepal (Devanagari)
  • Dogri𑠖𑠵𑠌𑠤𑠮 · Devanagari
  • Dotyaliडोटेली · Devanagari
  • GarhwaliDevanagari
  • Eastern GurungDevanagari
  • Gujari (Devanagari)
  • Goan Konkaniगोवन कोंकणी · Devanagari
  • Gondi𑵶𑶓𑶕𑶂𑶌‎ · Devanagari
  • GurungDevanagari
  • Hindiहिन्दी · Devanagari
  • Fiji HindiDevanagari
  • ChhattisgarhiDevanagari
  • HoDevanagari
  • HadothiDevanagari
  • JumliDevanagari
  • KachhiDevanagari
  • KumaoniDevanagari
  • Gamale Kham, Devanagari
  • KhandesiDevanagari
  • Kharia (Devanagari)
  • KonkaniDevanagari
  • KurukhDevanagari
  • Kashmiri (Devanagari)
  • Lhomi (Devanagari)
  • LimbuDevanagari
  • Magahiमगही · Devanagari
  • Maithiliमैथिली · Devanagari
  • Eastern MagarDevanagari
  • Marathiमराठी · Devanagari
  • Western MagarDevanagari
  • MewariDevanagari
  • MarwariDevanagari
  • Nepaliनेपाली · Devanagari
  • NewariDevanagari
  • Wancho Naga, Devanagari
  • NimadiDevanagari
  • PaliDevanagari
  • Camling (Devanagari)
  • RajasthaniDevanagari
  • RajbanshiDevanagari
  • Sanskritसंस्कृतम् · Devanagari
  • Santali (Devanagari)
  • SadriDevanagari
  • Sindhi (Devanagari)सिन्धी
  • SirmauriDevanagari
  • ShekhawatiDevanagari
  • Eastern Tamangतामाङ‎ · Devanagari
  • Western TamangDevanagari
  • ThulungDevanagari
  • Thangmi (Devanagari)
  • Dangaura TharuDevanagari
  • Kochila TharuDevanagari
  • Rana TharuDevanagari
  • Thakali (Devanagari)
  • Kathoriya TharuDevanagari
  • Southwestern TamangDevanagari
  • Mundari (Devanagari)
  • Munda (Devanagari)
  • WagdiDevanagari
  • MewatiDevanagari
  • Kangriकांगड़ी · Devanagari
  • SherpaDevanagari
  • Yakha (Devanagari)

Styles and axes

9 weights in normal style.

Variable axes let you fine-tune the design between the values shown.

  • WidthAdjust the style from narrower to wider, by varying the proportions of counters, strokes, spacing and kerning, and other aspects of the type.wdth · 62.5100 · default 100
  • WeightAdjust the style from lighter to bolder in typographic color, by varying stroke weights, spacing and kerning, and other aspects of the type.wght · 100900 · default 400

OpenType features

Typographic behaviors that adjust character forms, spacing, and positioning. Availability can vary between files.

  • Access all alternatesMakes every alternate form in the font available for selection.aalt
  • ABVMApplies the font’s abvm behavior during text shaping.abvm
  • ABVSApplies the font’s abvs behavior during text shaping.abvs
  • AKHNApplies the font’s akhn behavior during text shaping.akhn
  • BLWFApplies the font’s blwf behavior during text shaping.blwf
  • BLWMApplies the font’s blwm behavior during text shaping.blwm
  • BLWSApplies the font’s blws behavior during text shaping.blws
  • Glyph compositionBuilds or separates glyphs so letters and marks shape correctly.ccmp
  • CJCTApplies the font’s cjct behavior during text shaping.cjct
  • DISTApplies the font’s dist behavior during text shaping.dist
  • HALFApplies the font’s half behavior during text shaping.half
  • KerningFine-tunes the space between specific pairs of characters.kern
  • Localized formsUses character forms appropriate to the selected language or region.locl
  • Mark positioningPositions combining marks relative to their base characters.mark
  • Mark-to-mark positioningPositions combining marks relative to other marks.mkmk
  • NUKTApplies the font’s nukt behavior during text shaping.nukt
  • OrdinalsUses letterforms designed for ordinal numbers.ordn
  • PRESApplies the font’s pres behavior during text shaping.pres
  • PSTSApplies the font’s psts behavior during text shaping.psts
  • RCLTApplies the font’s rclt behavior during text shaping.rclt
  • RKRFApplies the font’s rkrf behavior during text shaping.rkrf
  • RPHFApplies the font’s rphf behavior during text shaping.rphf

License

Complete terms and attribution for this font.

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Provenance

Where the files came from and what Fontsource distributes.

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Provider
Google Fonts
Source files
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Formats
TTF
Revision
8b0a1d0f59