Step 1: check if Mangal is already on your computer
Mangal ships with Windows 7 and 8. On Windows 10 and 11 it is part of an optional feature called Devanagari Supplemental Fonts (Aparajita, Kokila, Mangal, Sanskrit Text and Utsaah), which many PCs already have, especially when Hindi is added as a language. Open Settings › Personalization › Fonts and search for “Mangal”, or open Word, type a word in Hindi and look for Mangal in the font list. If it is there, you do not need to download anything: just select it. If it is missing on Windows 10 or 11, open Settings › System › Optional features, choose Add a feature and install Devanagari Supplemental Fonts. That is Microsoft’s official way to add Mangal.
Step 2: pick the right Mangal version
We checked the internal name table of every Mangal file we offer. Here is what each one is:
| File | Version | Copyright line in the file | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mangal Regular | 6.90 | © 2015 Microsoft Corporation | Windows 10/11, Word 2016 and later, PDFs |
| Mangal Bold | 5.90 | © 2009 Microsoft Corporation | True bold headings with Ctrl+B |
| Mangal | 5.90 | © 2009 Microsoft Corporation | Windows 7 era PCs and older Office |
| Mangal | 1.20 | © 2001 Microsoft Corporation | Very old systems only |
| Mangal (historical) | 0.99 | National Centre for Software Technology | Reference only, not offered |
For almost everyone the answer is simple: install Mangal Regular 6.90 and Mangal Bold together. The newer build has better spacing for conjuncts and matches what offices see on current Windows.
Step 3: install it
- Windows: right-click the downloaded
.ttffile and choose Install for all users. Restart Word. - Mac: double-click the file and press Install Font in Font Book.
- Android: Unicode Hindi already displays with the system font. Install Mangal only inside apps that support custom fonts, such as WPS Office.
Screenshots and troubleshooting (boxes instead of letters, broken matras, Word not showing the font) are in our how to install Mangal font guide.
About the licence
Mangal is a Microsoft font distributed with Windows and Microsoft Office. It is free to use on a licensed Windows computer, but it is not open source and Microsoft owns the copyright. If you need a Hindi font you can embed in an app or a commercial product, use an open licence font such as Noto Sans Devanagari or Mukta; see our list of free Hindi fonts. Copyright holders can contact us through the copyright page.
After you download Mangal font
- Type Hindi straight away with the Mangal font typing tool.
- Learn the Mangal font keyboard (Inscript) layout.
- Set Mangal as the default Hindi font in Word: see Mangal font in MS Word.
Mangal Hindi font download files
Every file below is a genuine Mangal font Hindi download. Pick Regular for a normal Hindi Mangal font download, or the ZIP to download Mangal Hindi font in all versions at once.