Devanagari
typeface

Stadio Deva is a script extension to the Stadio Now revival by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli, published in 2020 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Italian type designer Aldo Novarese. Stadio Deva translates the original inverted contrast humanistic design into devanagari forms.

The typeface explores a space that ranges from simpler, contemporary shapes in the lighter weights to more stylised and expressive shapes in the bolder weights. This pushes the devanagari letters to highly distinctive reverse contrast proportions that feature a rather heavy ‘headline’ or ‘shirorekha’ which becomes a dominant feature. With more than 600 glyphs, Stadio Deva supports different Indic languages including Hindi and Sanskrit.

Available on Zetafonts.