Hindi Font Converter
Convert Hindi text between Unicode and Kruti Dev, Devlys, Chanakya, Walkman Chanakya, or Shusha.
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Before Unicode became standard, most Hindi typing in India — government offices, court filings, Rajbhasha (official language) correspondence, newspapers, and typing test centers — was done using ASCII-mapped fonts like Kruti Dev, Devlys, Chanakya, Walkman Chanakya, and Shusha, where each Devanagari glyph sits at a specific keyboard character position rather than a proper Unicode code point. A huge amount of legacy content, and quite a few official systems and SSC/state-government typing test software, still expect text in one of these formats rather than Unicode. This tool converts text between Unicode and any of these five legacy fonts in either direction, directly in your browser, using the same fixed character-mapping tables and matra-reordering rules every legacy Hindi font converter relies on — no AI involved, just a deterministic lookup. It also includes a separate "View in Mangal" preview, which doesn't convert anything since Mangal is already Unicode-compliant. Type or paste your text, pick a direction, and copy the result straight into whatever system or document needs it.
How it works
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Choose a conversion direction from the dropdown — any Unicode-to-legacy-font pair, the reverse, or the Mangal preview.
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Type or paste your text into the Input box — the Output box updates instantly.
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Click "Copy Output" and paste the result wherever you need it.
Frequently asked questions
Why does my legacy-font output look like scrambled English text?
That's expected — Kruti Dev, Devlys, Chanakya, Walkman Chanakya, and Shusha all store Hindi as specific Latin-1 character codes, and your browser doesn't have those fonts installed to render them as Devanagari. Paste the output into a document with the matching font applied, and it will display correctly.
Is this conversion done using AI?
No — every one of these fonts uses a fixed character mapping. This tool applies that mapping directly (plus a reordering step for matras that are typed before the consonant they attach to), the same deterministic approach every legacy Hindi font converter uses.
Are all five font mappings equally reliable?
Kruti Dev and Devlys have been cross-checked against known-good samples. Chanakya, Walkman Chanakya, and Shusha are best-effort tables that haven't been verified against a live copy of those fonts yet — the tool shows a notice when you select one of them, so spot-check the output before relying on it for anything official.
What's the difference between converting to Kruti Dev and the "View in Mangal" option?
Converting to Kruti Dev (or Devlys/Chanakya/etc.) actually remaps every character to that font's encoding. "View in Mangal" does nothing to the text at all — Mangal is a standard Unicode font, so this option just previews your existing Unicode text rendered in that font family.
Why would I need to convert to a legacy font at all?
Some government offices, RTI correspondence, and older typing test software still expect text in one of these legacy formats rather than Unicode. This tool lets you draft in modern Unicode and convert only when a specific system requires it.
My font isn't in the list — what do I do?
Use the "Let us know" link near the Copy Output button to tell us which font you need — we'd rather add a verified mapping than guess at one for a font we're not confident about.