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Hind

The library lists Hind together with eight more families that share a designer with it and either its name or its measurements. Only 23% of today’s sans serifs were added to the library before it.

Outlines drawn from the Hind-Regular file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the sans serifs.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Hind	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	707	740
Cap height (top of H)	674	702
x-height (top of x)	508	519
Descender (foot of p)	−197	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.75	0.70
Average lowercase width	486	522
Ink coverage, a–z	39.5%	40.2%

Versions and companionsA shared designer and a shared name or matching measurements

Version	Compared with Hind	Added
Hind Colombo	adds Sinhala	2016
Hind Guntur	adds Telugu	2016
Hind Jalandhar	adds Gurmukhi	2016
Hind Kochi	adds Malayalam	2016
Hind Madurai	adds Tamil	2016
Hind Mysuru	adds Kannada	2016
Hind Siliguri	adds Bengali	2015
Hind Vadodara	adds Gujarati	2015

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Nevermind, Puritan; just above: Do Hyeon, K2D; level with: Hind Colombo, Hind Guntur, Hind Jalandhar

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Zain, Mako; just above: Akatab, Tirra; level with: Hind Colombo, Hind Guntur, Hind Jalandhar

Weights and styles

Static files in five weights (Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold), with no italic; 5 font files in all.

Scripts3 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,006 glyphs and 434 mapped Unicode characters; 15 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: standard ligatures.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Outside the sans serif class

Syneshorter x-height, wider Karmashorter x-height, wider Cairoshorter x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Hind

Same designer

Indian Type Foundry is credited on 13 other families in the library, from Karma (2014) to Kumar One (2016); the closest of them in x-height and width is Halant.