Who designed the Devanagari font currently available in Big Sur (11.5.1)?

Apple provides several fonts for Devanagari script. You can get a list by going to the Font Book app and creating a smart collection based on "languages include Hindi." For each font, you can do View > Show Font Info to get some basic information about the origin of the font.

Beyond that, I don't know of any place to get more detailed info.

sampottspotts wrote:

I would like to know the origin of this font, and whether it is the same design as the Linotype font, published by Monotype, designed by Matthew Carter, Fiona Ross, Monotype Studio, Gunnar Vilhjálmsson, Lisa Timpe, and Georgie Surman.

Thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari

https://itunesu-assets.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/CobaltPublic/v4/62/5e/c5/625ec5d7-6161-6eba-02ec-344e1f0948f9/391b22cd58f07349f77893491b3f37e63307a72b0c554e43910709c6deac842d-2618536081.pdf

use Devanagari (the standard Hindi font). The font (Devanagari MT, a true-type font) Asian font rendering problem

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1100914

If you need any further insights,

you will have to wait for one of our resident font expert to join in: Tom Gewecke

sampottspotts wrote:

Thanks — this isn't what I was asking but it seems that the designer of the MacOS system Devanagari font simply isn't publicly available.

I think the default font in Big Sur, at least in TextEdit, is Kohinoor. The font info for that one is: