Hindi¶
hi, tier B, हिन्दी. 18.6 percent of 290 terms have an approved translation or a protected spelling. This measures terminology coverage, not completed prose review or publication approval.
This table is generated from the core translation memory localization/hi-core.tmx, the canonical data for Hindi terminology. Edit the memory, not this page.
Use the English term until a proposed translation is approved, or when a translation is missing. A protected spelling stays unchanged. The fallback original term is the plain English phrase to translate when the term itself will not travel; the principles say how to use it. A draft English name still requires confirmation even if its spelling is protected here.
Select an English term for its definition and application context. The translator handoff explains how to propose changes.
The Hindi localization guide explains the reasoning behind the less obvious choices and the rules that apply to this language.
Names¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Hindi | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Illustrator | do-not-translate | ||
| app.fontographer.net | app.fontographer.net | do-not-translate | ||
| FLUM | FLUM | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| FontLab | FontLab | do-not-translate | ||
| fontlab (Python module) | fontlab (Python module) | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab 8 | FontLab 8 | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab 9 | FontLab 9 | do-not-translate | English term: draft. | |
| Fontlab Ltd. | Fontlab Ltd. | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab Pass | FontLab Pass | do-not-translate | ||
| FontLab Studio 5 | FontLab Studio 5 | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| fontlab.com | fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| Fontographer | Fontographer | do-not-translate | ||
| Fontographer.net | Fontographer.net | do-not-translate | English term: draft. | |
| forum.fontlab.com | forum.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| GlyphRef | GlyphRef | do-not-translate | ||
| help.fontlab.com | help.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| help.vexy.art | help.vexy.art | do-not-translate | ||
| pass.fontlab.com | pass.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | ||
| Photofont | Photofont | do-not-translate | ||
| playlines.vexy.art | playlines.vexy.art | do-not-translate | ||
| Strokes Maker | Strokes Maker | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| studio.fontlab.com | studio.fontlab.com | do-not-translate | English term: draft. | |
| TransType 5 | TransType 5 | do-not-translate | ||
| TypeTool | TypeTool | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy | Vexy | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Lines | Vexy Lines | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Linestra | Vexy Linestra | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Playlines | Vexy Playlines | do-not-translate | ||
| Vexy Vextra | Vexy Vextra | do-not-translate |
Type design¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Hindi | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ascender | upward extension | एसेंडर | proposed | Loan, as in Hindi DTP teaching material (एसेन्डर/एसेंडर). Rejected आरोही/आरोहक: found only in machine-translated pages, and Devanagari has no ascenders of its own to name. |
| baseline | writing line | आधार रेखा | proposed | Natural Hindi and the term of Devanagari type literature; attested once in the corpus (आधाररेखा). Apple AppKit and the Adobe Hindi site use the loan बेसलाइन, the rejected alternative. |
| bowl | round belly | बाउल | proposed | No Hindi attestation; transliterated professional loan, since Indian type designers learn the term in English. Rejected कटोरा (Apple shape library: a soup bowl). |
| cap height | capital-letter height | कैपिटल ऊँचाई | proposed | No attestation; built from Apple's कैपिटल (सभी कैपिटल, स्मॉल कैपिटल) and ऊँचाई; fallback 'capital-letter height' translated. Rejected कैप-हाइट. |
| character | वर्ण | proposed | Apple CoreText/Font Book (वर्ण विकल्प, अनुपलब्ध वर्ण), Microsoft Word and LibreOffice. Rejected अक्षर: it is the letter or orthographic syllable, not the encoded unit, and Apple uses it for 'letter'. | |
| contour | कॉन्टूर | proposed | Loan, five general-software attestations in the corpus. Rejected परिरेखा (Blender/Krita coinage). Kept apart from आउटलाइन (outline, the whole drawing). | |
| counter | enclosed white space | काउंटर | proposed | Loan; Indian type teaching uses 'counter' for Devanagari too (Type Together anatomy). The corpus matches (Apple Photos, Publisher) are the counting sense and only confirm the spelling. |
| descender | downward extension | डिसेंडर | proposed | Loan, as in Hindi DTP teaching material. Rejected अवरोही for the same reason as आरोही. |
| diacritical mark | combining mark | विशेषक चिह्न | proposed | Apple CoreText uses विशेषक for diacritics (विशेषक छिपाएँ); चिह्न added for the full term. Compact labels may use विशेषक alone. |
| em | type body | एम | proposed | No attestation; the unit's spoken name; Microsoft Visio keeps EM. Expand UPM as यूनिट प्रति एम and PPM as पिक्सेल प्रति एम. |
| extremum | local extreme point | चरम बिंदु | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'local extreme point' translated with the school-mathematics words चरम and बिंदु. |
| glyph | ग्लिफ़ | proposed | Apple Font Book and CoreText (ग्लिफ़ गणना, ग्लिफ़ इंडेक्स). Plural stays ग्लिफ़; kept apart from वर्ण (character). | |
| handle | हैंडल | proposed | Inkscape Hindi; everyday loan. | |
| ink trap | ink relief notch | इंक ट्रैप | proposed | No Hindi attestation; transliterated professional loan, since Indian type designers learn the term in English. |
| italic angle | slant angle | इटैलिक कोण | proposed | No attestation; Apple's इटैलिक plus natural कोण (angle). |
| lining figures | capital-height figures | लाइनिंग अंक | proposed | No attestation; loan plus अंक (Apple's word for figures). Apple's क्रमिक अंक ('sequential digits') and पंक्ति अंक are mistranslations. |
| node | नोड | proposed | Apple and Krita use नोड. Rejected ग्रन्थि (Sanskritized, unused). | |
| overshoot | optical surplus | ओवरशूट | proposed | No Hindi attestation; transliterated professional loan, since Indian type designers learn the term in English. A Hindi rendering of the fallback 'optical surplus' (ऑप्टिकल बढ़त) was rejected as an unattested calque. |
| proportional figures | natural-width figures | आनुपातिक अंक | proposed | From Apple CoreText आनुपातिक (Proportional Numbers = आनुपातिक संख्याएँ) with अंक for figures. |
| segment | खंड | proposed | Apple Keynote and Pages. Curve segment is वक्र खंड. | |
| serif | सेरिफ़ | proposed | Adobe Hindi site (सेरिफ़, सैन्स सेरिफ़) and Apple CoreText (सेरिफ़ रूप). Apple Font Book leaves Serif in Latin as a class name; rejected for running UI. | |
| sharp | नुकीला | proposed | Natural word for 'pointed'; inflects (नुकीला/नुकीली/नुकीले). Rejected पैना (Blender, a keen blade) and तीक्ष्ण (Sanskritized). | |
| sharp node | नुकीला नोड | proposed | Derived from नुकीला and नोड. | |
| stem | main stroke | स्टेम | proposed | Loan; the GPT second opinion reports Adobe's Hindi site using स्टेम typographically (not checked). Rejected खड़ी पाई, which names only the vertical bar of a Devanagari letter; hinting also has horizontal stems. |
| swash | flourish | स्वैश | proposed | Apple CoreText (स्वैश विकल्प) and the Adobe Hindi site. Corporate विकास (Publisher) is a mistranslation. |
| terminal | stroke ending | टर्मिनल | proposed | No Hindi attestation; transliterated professional loan, since Indian type designers learn the term in English. The corpus match is Apple's Terminal app and only confirms the spelling. Distinct from स्ट्रोक कैप. |
| UPM | units per type body | UPM | proposed | Abbreviation kept in Latin; in prose expand as यूनिट प्रति एम (units per em). Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0. |
| winding direction | drawing direction | कॉन्टूर दिशा | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'drawing direction' rendered as 'contour direction', as German and Polish did. |
| x-height | small-letter height | x-ऊँचाई | proposed | No attestation; the letter x stays Latin because it is the measured letter, with natural ऊँचाई. Rejected the full loan एक्स-हाइट (Hindi teaching lists). |
Font engineering¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Hindi | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| advance height | एडवांस ऊँचाई | proposed | Derived from एडवांस चौड़ाई. | |
| advance width | glyph box width | एडवांस चौड़ाई | proposed | No attestation; loan qualifier plus natural चौड़ाई. Note that Apple writes एडवांस for 'Advanced'; rejected अग्रिम चौड़ाई (अग्रिम is an advance payment). |
| alignment zone | height band for snapping | संरेखण ज़ोन | proposed | No attestation; संरेखण is the Microsoft/Apple word for alignment. |
| anchor | attachment point | एंकर | proposed | Loan as in Hindi vector-graphics usage (general-software evidence एंकर/ऐंकर). Rejected लंगर (Apple emoji and Krita): a ship's anchor, never used for an attachment point. |
| anti-aliasing | edge smoothing | एंटी-एलियासिंग | proposed | Loan (corpus: एन्टी-अलियासिंग). Blender's प्रित-उपघटन is an unusable coinage. |
| autohinting | automatic screen fitting | ऑटोहिंटिंग | proposed | Derived from हिंटिंग. |
| axis | अक्ष | proposed | Apple Keynote/Pages, Microsoft, Blender; the school word. | |
| axis map | axis value mapping | अक्ष मैप | proposed | No attestation; अक्ष plus the common loan मैप. |
| bottom sidebearing | निचली साइडबेयरिंग | proposed | Derived from साइडबेयरिंग. | |
| component | कंपोनेंट | proposed | Apple CoreTypes and Adobe InDesign Hindi resources use कंपोनेंट. Rejected घटक. Distinct from एलिमेंट and रेफ़रेंस. | |
| composite glyph | assembled glyph | कंपोज़िट ग्लिफ़ | proposed | Apple Font Book (Composite = कंपोज़िट). |
| conversion profile | export settings set | रूपांतरण प्रोफ़ाइल | proposed | No attestation; Microsoft's रूपांतरण for conversion, with प्रोफ़ाइल. |
| CVT table | CVT टेबल | proposed | Tag in Latin; टेबल for a table inside a font, distinct from तालिका in the interface. | |
| design space | variation range | डिज़ाइन स्पेस | proposed | No Hindi attestation; transliterated professional loan, since Indian type designers learn the term in English. |
| device correction | per-size pixel correction | डिवाइस सुधार | proposed | No attestation; डिवाइस is the Apple/Microsoft loan; सुधार is the natural word for a correction. |
| dimensions | आयाम | proposed | Microsoft Hindi word for dimensions; kept distinct from मेट्रिक्स and माप. | |
| element | एलिमेंट | proposed | Loan as on the Adobe Hindi site (एलिमेंट्स) and in Apple (टेक्स्ट एलिमेंट). Rejected अवयव/तत्व (Krita): bookish, and they blur element with component. | |
| element reference | shared drawing link | एलिमेंट रेफ़रेंस | proposed | Derived from एलिमेंट and रेफ़रेंस. |
| family dimensions | परिवार आयाम | proposed | Derived; परिवार is Apple Font Book's word for a font family. | |
| Flex | फ़्लेक्स | proposed | Fixed name of a PostScript hint, transliterated like ओब्लीक; never translated. | |
| font dimensions | फ़ॉन्ट आयाम | proposed | Derived from आयाम. | |
| font target | export target | लक्ष्य फ़ॉन्ट | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'export target' rendered as 'target font', like Polish; लक्ष्य is the Microsoft word. |
| font unit | फ़ॉन्ट यूनिट | proposed | No attestation; everyday loan यूनिट, matching the expansion यूनिट प्रति एम. Rejected इकाई (formal). | |
| fractional coordinates | non-integer coordinates | दशमलव निर्देशांक | proposed | No attestation; 'decimal coordinates', as German and French did; दशमलव is everyday, निर्देशांक the Microsoft and school word. |
| friendly glyph name | readable glyph name | पठनीय ग्लिफ़ नाम | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'readable glyph name' translated. |
| ghost hint | edge-only fitting instruction | घोस्ट हिंट | proposed | No attestation; loan compound. A translated भूत हिंट was rejected as comic without being clearer. |
| hint | screen fitting instruction | हिंट | proposed | No Hindi attestation; transliterated professional loan, since Indian type designers learn the term in English. Rejected संकेत (Apple/Microsoft): the office sense of a tip or cue. |
| hint zone | hinting height band | हिंट ज़ोन | proposed | Derived from हिंट; ज़ोन is the everyday loan. |
| hinting | screen fitting | हिंटिंग | proposed | Derived from हिंट; no Hindi attestation; transliterated professional loan, since Indian type designers learn the term in English. |
| instance | generated design | इंस्टेंस | proposed | No typographic attestation; common software loan (Microsoft Hindi documentation). Rejected उदाहरण, which means an example, not a generated font. |
| interpolation | इंटरपोलेशन | proposed | Loan. Rejected अंतर्वेशन (Krita): a mathematics-textbook Sanskritism designers do not use. | |
| kern exception | pair spacing exception | कर्निंग अपवाद | proposed | No attestation; अपवाद is the common word for an exception. |
| kerning | pair spacing correction | कर्निंग | proposed | Adobe Hindi site, Apple CoreText (कर्निंग नहीं) and Microsoft Word all use the loan. Verb: कर्न करें (Adobe: 'टाइप को मैन्युअल रूप से कर्न करना'). |
| kerning class | pair spacing group | कर्निंग क्लास | proposed | Derived; क्लास as in Apple Font Book (Class = क्लास). |
| kerning pair | spacing-corrected pair | कर्निंग जोड़ा | proposed | Adobe Hindi site (कर्निंग जोड़े, कर्निंग जोड़ों). Rejected LibreOffice's युग्म (Sanskritized). |
| left sidebearing | बाईं साइडबेयरिंग | proposed | Derived from साइडबेयरिंग (feminine); Apple uses बाईं/दाईं for left/right. Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0. | |
| Lib | Lib | proposed | Mirrors the UFO lib key; kept in Latin like German, French and Polish. | |
| line gap | पंक्ति अंतराल | proposed | No attestation; natural words; पंक्ति for a text line as in Microsoft Hindi. | |
| line height | पंक्ति ऊँचाई | proposed | No attestation; natural words, parallel to पंक्ति अंतराल. | |
| link metrics | tie spacing to another glyph | मेट्रिक्स लिंक करें | proposed | No attestation; command form with the everyday loan लिंक. |
| linked metrics | लिंक किए गए मेट्रिक्स | proposed | Derived from मेट्रिक्स लिंक करें; participle pattern as in Apple's इंस्टॉल किया गया. | |
| mark attachment | combining mark positioning | मार्क अटैचमेंट | proposed | No attestation; loan of the OpenType term on मार्क. |
| master | source design | मास्टर | proposed | Loan, as in Microsoft PowerPoint/Visio Hindi; no Hindi word names an interpolation source. Rejected स्वामी/प्रधान (wrong sense). |
| master compatibility | matching master structure | मास्टर संगतता | proposed | Derived from मास्टर; संगतता is the Microsoft word for compatibility. |
| metrics | मेट्रिक्स | proposed | Apple Font Book (Metrics = मेट्रिक्स). Treated as masculine plural. | |
| metrics expression | मेट्रिक्स एक्सप्रेशन | proposed | No attestation; loan एक्सप्रेशन. Rejected Microsoft's व्यंजक, which also means a consonant, awkward in a font editor. | |
| metrics key | मेट्रिक्स कुंजी | proposed | Derived; कुंजी (Microsoft) because the loan की would read as the Hindi genitive particle. | |
| pin | पिन | proposed | English term: draft. Issue 160 catalog family review: named point inside an element, distinct from a glyph-layer anchor. Proteus Resources/helptips.json def.anchorpin defines the behavior. Preserve this term across panel, tool, action and help labels; proposed terminology, not native-team approval. | |
| PPM | pixels per type body | PPM | proposed | Abbreviation kept in Latin for compact hinting fields; in prose expand as पिक्सेल प्रति एम. Corpus hits for ppm are parts per million. Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0. |
| production glyph name | shipping glyph name | प्रोडक्शन ग्लिफ़ नाम | proposed | No attestation; loan प्रोडक्शन; rejected उत्पादन (manufacturing). |
| rendering | drawing on screen | रेंडरिंग | proposed | Inkscape Hindi; common loan. |
| required glyphs | mandatory glyphs | आवश्यक ग्लिफ़ | proposed | आवश्यक as in Apple CoreText (Required Ligatures). |
| right sidebearing | दाईं साइडबेयरिंग | proposed | Derived from साइडबेयरिंग (feminine). Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0. | |
| sidebearing | side space | साइडबेयरिंग | proposed | No Hindi attestation; transliterated professional loan, since Indian type designers learn the term in English. Feminine. Rejected a calque of the fallback (बग़ल की रिक्ति): too close to spacing. |
| size | आकार | proposed | Apple Font Book (फ़ॉन्ट आकार, ग्लिफ़ आकार). Adobe's site also uses साइज़, rejected because आकार is natural and established. | |
| spacing | स्पेसिंग | proposed | Apple CoreText/Font Book (कैपिटल स्पेसिंग, संख्या स्पेसिंग) and Adobe Hindi site. Microsoft's रिक्ति is the rejected alternative. | |
| standard stem | reference stem width | मानक स्टेम | proposed | Derived; मानक as in Apple's मानक फ़ॉन्ट. |
| stem link | stem tie | स्टेम लिंक | proposed | Derived from स्टेम and लिंक. |
| styling group name | शैली समूह नाम | proposed | Built from Apple's शैली (style), समूह and नाम. | |
| subsetting | cutting down a font | सबसेटिंग | proposed | No attestation; loan; the Adobe Hindi site uses सबसेट. |
| top sidebearing | ऊपरी साइडबेयरिंग | proposed | Derived from साइडबेयरिंग. | |
| tracking | uniform letter spacing | ट्रैकिंग | proposed | Adobe Hindi site (कर्निंग, ट्रैकिंग और लीडिंग). Krita's ट्रेकिंग is a misspelling. |
| TrueType instruction | pixel fitting instruction | TrueType निर्देश | proposed | No attestation; TrueType stays Latin (Apple); निर्देश is the Microsoft word for an instruction. |
| typographic family name | टाइपोग्राफ़िक परिवार नाम | proposed | Built from Apple Font Book's परिवार and नाम; टाइपोग्राफ़िक as on the Adobe Hindi site. | |
| update metrics | मेट्रिक्स अपडेट करें | proposed | No attestation; command form; अपडेट is the common loan. | |
| variable font | वेरिएबल फ़ॉन्ट | proposed | No attestation; loan in general Hindi web usage. Rejected परिवर्तनीय फ़ॉन्ट (reads as 'convertible'). | |
| variation location | position in the variation range | वेरिएशन स्थान | proposed | No attestation; स्थान is Apple's word for a location; वेरिएशन matches वेरिएबल फ़ॉन्ट. |
| vertical advance | glyph box height | लंबवत एडवांस | proposed | Derived; लंबवत is Apple CoreText's word for vertical. |
| vertical metrics | लंबवत मेट्रिक्स | proposed | Apple's लंबवत and मेट्रिक्स. | |
| visual kerning | shape-measured spacing correction | विज़ुअल कर्निंग | proposed | No attestation; loan विज़ुअल as on the Adobe Hindi site; rejected दृश्य कर्निंग (reads as 'visible kerning'). |
| weight axis | thickness axis | वज़न अक्ष | proposed | Derived from वज़न and अक्ष. |
| weight class | वज़न क्लास | proposed | Derived; क्लास as in Apple Font Book. | |
| width axis | narrow-to-wide axis | चौड़ाई अक्ष | proposed | Derived; चौड़ाई is Apple CoreText's word for width. |
| width class | चौड़ाई क्लास | proposed | Derived; a classification, not the axis value. |
OpenType¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Hindi | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Glyph List | Adobe Glyph List | do-not-translate | ||
| alternate glyph | glyph variant | वैकल्पिक ग्लिफ़ | proposed | Derived from Apple's वैकल्पिक (वैकल्पिक अक्षर). |
| cmap | cmap | do-not-translate | ||
| code page | legacy character table | कोड पेज | proposed | Loan; Microsoft Windows Hindi keeps Code page in English. |
| color font table | कलर फ़ॉन्ट टेबल | proposed | Apple CoreText writes कलर ग्लिफ़्स; टेबल for a table inside a font. | |
| contextual alternates | context-dependent variants | प्रासंगिक विकल्प | proposed | Exact feature name in Apple CoreText, Microsoft Word and on the Adobe Hindi site. |
| cursive attachment | joined-script connection | कर्सिव अटैचमेंट | proposed | Apple CoreText writes कर्सिव; अटैचमेंट parallels मार्क अटैचमेंट. Rejected Apple's प्रवाहमय कनेक्शन (a different feature label). |
| design languages | डिज़ाइन भाषाएँ | proposed | No attestation; Apple's भाषाएँ with डिज़ाइन (Apple: 'इनके लिए डिज़ाइन किया गया'). | |
| encoding | एनकोडिंग | proposed | Apple Character Viewer. | |
| feature code | layout rule code | फ़ीचर कोड | proposed | Derived from फ़ीचर; कोड is the everyday loan. |
| fractions | भिन्न | proposed | Apple CoreText, Keynote, Pages; the school word. | |
| glyph index | glyph number | ग्लिफ़ इंडेक्स | proposed | Apple Font Book (ग्लिफ़ इंडेक्स और नाम). |
| glyph name | ग्लिफ़ नाम | proposed | Apple Font Book pattern (शैली नाम, फ़ाइल नाम). | |
| GPOS | GPOS | do-not-translate | ||
| GSUB | GSUB | do-not-translate | ||
| ligature | joined letters | लिगेचर | proposed | Loan (Adobe Hindi site: लिगचर; Hindi design teaching: लिगेचर). Apple and Microsoft use संयुक्ताक्षर, rejected because in Indian type literature that is the Devanagari conjunct, which a font editor must keep apart from a typographic ligature. |
| localized forms | language-specific variants | स्थानीयकृत रूप | proposed | No attestation; Microsoft's स्थानीयकृत with Apple's रूप for forms. |
| lookup | procedure | प्रक्रिया | approved | User/team procedure fallback. No sufficiently strong established OpenType-specific alternative verified in the reviewed primary sources. Keep the approved contextual Rules panel title. Preserve literal FEA lookup/lookupflag keywords, identifiers and OpenType structure names. Ordinary search senses are separate. |
| mark glyph | combining mark glyph | मार्क ग्लिफ़ | proposed | Derived from मार्क and ग्लिफ़. |
| nonspacing mark | zero-width combining mark | नॉन-स्पेसिंग मार्क | proposed | Derived from नॉन-स्पेसिंग and मार्क; names the Unicode category Mn. |
| oldstyle figures | lowercase-style figures | पुरानी शैली के अंक | proposed | Apple CoreText (Old-Style Figures = पुरानी-शैली के अंक). Rejected Apple's other string पुरानी शैली की आकृतियाँ: आकृति is a shape, not a numeral. |
| OpenType class | layout glyph group | OpenType क्लास | proposed | Derived; क्लास as in Apple Font Book. |
| OpenType feature | layout feature | OpenType फ़ीचर | proposed | Apple keeps OpenType in Latin and uses फ़ीचर. |
| OS/2 table | OS/2 टेबल | proposed | Tag in Latin; टेबल for a table inside a font. | |
| Private Use Area | Private Use Area | do-not-translate | ||
| single substitution | सिंगल सब्स्टिट्यूशन | proposed | Apple CoreText uses सब्स्टिट्यूशन (लंबवत सब्स्टिट्यूशन); name of a GSUB lookup type. | |
| small caps | small capitals | स्मॉल कैपिटल | proposed | Apple CoreText OpenType.strings (Small Capitals = स्मॉल कैपिटल). Rejected Apple's other rendering स्मॉल लेटर, which means lowercase, and Word's छोटे कैप्स. |
| stylistic set | स्टायलिस्टिक सेट | proposed | Apple CoreText (Stylistic Set %d = स्टायलिस्टिक सेट %d). Rejected Microsoft's शैलीयुक्त सेट. | |
| tabular figures | equal-width figures | सारणीबद्ध अंक | proposed | From Apple CoreText सारणीबद्ध (Tabular numbers = सारणीबद्ध संख्याएँ) with अंक. Alternative टैब्यूलर अंक (Apple also writes टैब्यूलर). |
| Unicode codepoint | character code | Unicode कोडपॉइंट | proposed | No attestation; Unicode in Latin as a standard's name, with the loan कोडपॉइंट. The corpus fallback pick वर्ण कोड ('character code') is the rejected alternative. |
| variation selector | variant picker character | वेरिएशन सिलेक्टर | proposed | No attestation; loan of the Unicode term. |
| writing system | लेखन प्रणाली | proposed | Natural Hindi. Rejected Microsoft's लेखन सिस्टम. The OpenType script in this sense is लिपि (Apple Font Book), never स्क्रिप्ट. |
File formats¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Hindi | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI file | AI file | do-not-translate | ||
| AIP | AIP | do-not-translate | ||
| FLREQ | FLREQ | do-not-translate | ||
| Fog.net | Fog.net | do-not-translate | ||
| Glyphs file | Glyphs file | do-not-translate | ||
| Lines file | Lines file | do-not-translate | ||
| OTF | OTF | do-not-translate | ||
| SVG | SVG | do-not-translate | ||
| TTC | TTC | do-not-translate | ||
| TTF | TTF | do-not-translate | ||
| Type 1 | Type 1 | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| UFO | UFO | do-not-translate | ||
| VFB | VFB | do-not-translate | English term: deprecated. | |
| VFC | VFC | do-not-translate | ||
| VFJ | VFJ | do-not-translate | ||
| WOFF2 | WOFF2 | do-not-translate |
Interface¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Hindi | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| action | क्रिया | proposed | Apple AppKit and Microsoft Office Hindi glossaries. | |
| add | जोड़ें | proposed | Apple (फ़ॉन्ट जोड़ें), Adobe, Microsoft. Short imperative as the guide requires; compact labels may use the same form. | |
| alternate | वैकल्पिक रूप | proposed | Apple CoreText (Alternate Forms = वैकल्पिक रूप). Bare विकल्प was rejected as the standalone noun because it is also the standard word for an option. | |
| anchor cloud | attachment point cloud | एंकर बादल | proposed | Derived from एंकर; बादल is the plain word, and avoids क्लाउड, which in Hindi IT means cloud storage. |
| auto layer | recipe-built layer | ऑटो लेयर | proposed | Derived from लेयर; ऑटो as in Apple CoreText (विशेषक ऑटो स्तर). |
| autohint | ऑटोहिंट करें | proposed | Command form derived from हिंट. | |
| Brush | ब्रश | proposed | Adobe, Apple, Inkscape, Krita. Rejected तूलिका (literary). | |
| collapse | समेटें | proposed | Apple Font Book and VoiceOver. समेटना is 'to gather together', which also fits nodes collapsing to one point. | |
| color flag | color mark | रंग फ़्लैग | proposed | No attestation; natural रंग with the Microsoft loan फ़्लैग. Rejected रंग चिह्न, since चिह्न is overloaded. |
| corner angles | कोनों के कोण | proposed | No attestation; natural words कोना (corner) and कोण (angle). | |
| cousins | related glyphs alongside | रिश्तेदार | proposed | House voice: 'relatives', a collective everyday word, since Hindi has no single word for cousins. Rejected the transliteration कज़िन्स. |
| crop | क्रॉप करें | proposed | Apple Photos and GIMP use the loan क्रॉप; imperative with करें. Rejected काँट-छाँट (clumsy in labels). | |
| cubic | क्यूबिक | proposed | No Hindi attestation; transliterated professional loan, since Indian type designers learn the term in English. Rejected घन (Blender): a cube or the third power, not a curve degree. | |
| current | वर्तमान | proposed | Apple (वर्तमान यूज़र), Microsoft. Inflect as an invariable adjective. | |
| cusp | नोक | proposed | No attestation; natural word for a sharp point; pairs with नुकीला (sharp). | |
| decompose | break into contours | कंपोनेंट तोड़ें | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'break into contours' in the craftsman's verb तोड़ना, naming the object as German and Polish do. Rejected विघटित करें. |
| default | डिफ़ॉल्ट | proposed | Apple Font Book and CoreText. Rejected तयशुदा/पूर्वन्यस्त (open-source coinages). | |
| demo mode | डेमो मोड | proposed | No attestation; both loans are everyday Hindi (Apple: सैंपल मोड). | |
| dialog | डायलॉग | proposed | Apple (डायलॉग चेतावनियाँ) and Krita. Rejected संवाद (a conversation). | |
| Dream Up | generate shapes | सपने बुनें | proposed | House voice: the idiom सपने बुनना, to weave dreams. Rejected the corpus fallback pick आकृतियाँ जनरेट करें (a description, not a name). |
| echo text | repeated text | टेक्स्ट दोहराएँ | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'repeated text' translated as a command, like German Text wiederholen. |
| Eraser | रबर | proposed | Krita and Tux Paint; the everyday Indian word for a pencil eraser, in the house's handyman voice. Rejected इरेज़र (general software), understood but less homely. | |
| expand filter | bake filter into contours | फ़िल्टर पक्का करें | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'bake filter into contours': पक्का means both baked and permanent. Rejected Apple's विस्तारित करें (to unfold a list). |
| expand stroke | bake stroke into contours | स्ट्रोक पक्का करें | proposed | Same verb as फ़िल्टर पक्का करें. |
| expand transformation | bake transformation into contours | ट्रांसफ़ॉर्मेशन पक्का करें | proposed | Same verb as फ़िल्टर पक्का करें. |
| feature | फ़ीचर | proposed | Apple CoreText/Font Book (सभी टाइपोग्राफ़ी फ़ीचर, फ़ीचर सक्षम). Feature tags stay in Latin. | |
| Fills | भरण | proposed | Apple Keynote/Pages and Microsoft Publisher. Rejected the loan फ़िल. Singular and plural are the same. | |
| FontAudit | फ़ॉन्टऑडिट | proposed | User requires phonetic transliteration, explicitly including Chinese. Russian and Ukrainian spellings were recovered from team QPH; other spellings are proposals. Retain the FontAudit identity; do not translate as a generic audit command. Preserve FontAudit in code and identifiers. | |
| FontLab account | FontLab खाता | proposed | Translate the common noun account and inflect it in complete sentences; preserve the FontLab brand. German, Spanish and French wording is already used in current FontLab UI. Other language forms are proposals. Do not duplicate account when the surrounding sentence already translates it. | |
| Fusion | Welder | वेल्डर | proposed | User decision 2026-10-04: translate the fallback Welder, the named live boolean group filter. Polish Spawacz is explicit; other renderings are proposals. Preserve Fusion in code identifiers. |
| Genius node | self-balancing node | जीनियस नोड | proposed | Name transliterated, as German, French and Polish keep Genius; जीनियस is everyday Hindi. A Hindi rendering (प्रतिभाशाली) would be long and solemn. |
| grid | ग्रिड | proposed | Apple Font Book, Adobe, Microsoft, Inkscape. Distinct from जाल (mesh). | |
| Groups | समूह | proposed | Apple, Microsoft, Inkscape. Plural label is also समूह. | |
| guide | गाइड | proposed | Apple Keynote/Pages, Inkscape and the Adobe Hindi site (ग्रिड्स और गाइड्स). | |
| kerning mode | कर्निंग मोड | proposed | Derived from कर्निंग. | |
| Knife | चाकू | proposed | Apple (Freeform, Keynote, Pages); the real tool's name. | |
| layer | लेयर | proposed | Loan used across Hindi graphics teaching and on the Adobe Hindi site (लेयर्स). Rejected परत/स्तर (Blender, Krita, LibreOffice): स्तर also means 'level'. | |
| Layers | लेयर | proposed | Plural of लेयर; Hindi loans keep the singular form in labels (Apple: फ़ॉन्ट for Fonts). The panel is लेयर और मास्टर. | |
| mark | मार्क | proposed | Loan of the OpenType term. Rejected चिह्न (Microsoft, Inkscape): it is Apple's word for any symbol, and मात्रा would cover only vowel signs. | |
| Masks | मास्क | proposed | Loan, as on the Adobe Hindi site. Rejected आवरण (Blender): a cover, and a FontLab mask hides nothing. | |
| match | मिलान करें | proposed | मिलान in Microsoft and Apple Keynote Hindi; verb form with करें. Corporate माचिस (matchstick) is the wrong sense. | |
| matching | मेल खाने वाले | proposed | From Apple's मेल खाना (फ़िल्टर मानदंड से मेल खाने वाला); participle form, inflect for gender and number. | |
| Matchmaker | master matcher | जोड़ीसाज़ | proposed | House voice coinage: जोड़ी (a matched pair) with the craftsman suffix -साज़ (घड़ीसाज़). Hindi has no single neutral word for a matchmaker; बिचौलिया means a tout. Rejected the transliteration मैचमेकर. |
| measurement line | माप रेखा | proposed | Derived from माप and रेखा. | |
| measurements | माप | proposed | No attestation; natural Hindi for a measurement; kept distinct from मेट्रिक्स (spacing) and आयाम (font dimensions). | |
| Measurements panel | माप पैनल | proposed | Derived from माप; short enough for the compact panel. | |
| merge | मर्ज करें | proposed | Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Office Hindi. Rejected मिलाएँ, kept free for matching (मिलान). | |
| mesh | जाल | proposed | Blender and Krita Hindi; natural word for a net. Kept distinct from ग्रिड. | |
| metrics mode | मेट्रिक्स मोड | proposed | Derived from मेट्रिक्स. | |
| metrics table | मेट्रिक्स तालिका | proposed | Derived; तालिका is the interface table (Microsoft), kept apart from टेबल, used for tables inside a font. | |
| metrics tool | मेट्रिक्स टूल | proposed | Derived; टूल is the Adobe and Apple Hindi word for a tool. | |
| monospaced | मोनोस्पेस | proposed | Apple Font Book (मोनोस्पेस, मोनोस्पेस्ड). The shorter form is used as an invariable adjective. | |
| multi-line | बहु-पंक्ति | proposed | No attestation; पंक्ति is the Microsoft/Apple word for a line or row; बहु- is the productive prefix for multi-. | |
| nonspacing | zero-width | नॉन-स्पेसिंग | proposed | No attestation; loan built on स्पेसिंग; fallback 'zero-width' was rejected because the element keeps its width and is only ignored in metrics. |
| Nudge | push move | धक्का | proposed | House voice: the everyday word for a shove, like German Schubs; command form धक्का दें. Rejected Microsoft's नज करें (an opaque loan). |
| Oblique | ओब्लीक | proposed | Apple CoreText style name; fixed name of the FontLab operation. Rejected तिर्यक/तिरछा: any slant. | |
| panel | पैनल | proposed | Apple, Microsoft, Adobe Hindi site. Panel names precede it: कर्निंग पैनल. | |
| Pencil | पेंसिल | proposed | Apple and Microsoft. | |
| Power Brush | power calligraphic brush | दमदार ब्रश | proposed | House voice: दमदार is the advertising word for 'packs a punch' (the Adobe Hindi site writes दमदार टूल्स). Rejected the transliteration पावर and शक्ति (an industrial rating). |
| Power Guide | power guideline | दमदार गाइड | proposed | Derived from दमदार and गाइड. |
| Power Nudge | power push move | दमदार धक्का | proposed | Derived from दमदार and धक्का. |
| Power Stroke | power stroke outline | दमदार स्ट्रोक | proposed | Derived from दमदार and स्ट्रोक. |
| project | प्रोजेक्ट | approved | Team agreement recovered from Proteus QPH on 2026-10-04. Project names the editable document; do not replace it with package. | |
| property bar | प्रॉपर्टी बार | proposed | No attestation; loan compound on the model of Apple's फ़िल्टर बार and साइडबार. | |
| quick measurement | त्वरित माप | proposed | Derived; त्वरित is Microsoft's standard word for Quick. | |
| Rapid | रैपिड | proposed | Issue 161 names the tool Rapid in Latin scripts and requires transliteration elsewhere. Canonical TS uses रैपिड. Do not translate the tool name as fast or quick, and do not use Rapidograph. Contrast classifications use the ordinary speed adjective. | |
| redo | फिर करें | proposed | Apple AppKit Undo.strings; platform word for a standard OS command. | |
| reference | रेफ़रेंस | proposed | Loan. Apple/Microsoft use संदर्भ, rejected here because संदर्भ is also the everyday word for 'context' (contextual = प्रासंगिक/संदर्भ मेनू) and would blur element references with contexts. | |
| Remove Overlap | merge overlapping contours | ओवरलैप हटाएँ | proposed | Apple CoreText uses ओवरलैप (ओवरलैप रोक) and हटाएँ for Remove. |
| repeat | दोहराएँ | proposed | Apple and Microsoft. Distinct from फिर करें (redo). | |
| reverse contour | flip drawing direction | कॉन्टूर उलटें | proposed | No attestation; उलटना is the everyday verb for turning something the other way. |
| Scissors | कैंची | proposed | Apple and Microsoft Word; the real tool's name. | |
| Servant node | Follower node | पिछलग्गू नोड | proposed | Read as Follower node. पिछलग्गू is the colloquial word for one who tags along behind, in the house voice. Rejected अनुगामी (formal) and फ़ॉलोअर (the social-media sense the principles rule out). |
| Sigma | Sigma | do-not-translate | ||
| Sketchboard | scratch canvas | स्केचबोर्ड | proposed | Transliterated: स्केच and बोर्ड are both everyday Hindi, so the name is understood as it stands. |
| Skin | wrapping outline | छिलका | proposed | House voice, parallel to Polish skórka: the peel of a fruit. Rejected त्वचा (Blender: human skin) and the transliteration स्किन. |
| smart | clever | चतुर | proposed | House voice: the plain folk-tale word for clever with a hint of cunning, and invariable. Rejected the transliteration स्मार्ट (Apple, Adobe) because a Hindi rendering is understood, and बुद्धिमान (intelligent). |
| Smart Corner | clever corner | चतुर कोना | proposed | Derived from चतुर and natural कोना. |
| Smart Filter | चतुर फ़िल्टर | proposed | Named glyph-selection filter; not a graphical live effect. Match this term in the Font window, Aidus settings, dialogs and help. | |
| spacing controls | side space handles | स्पेसिंग नियंत्रण | proposed | No attestation; स्पेसिंग plus नियंत्रण (Apple: विशेषक नियंत्रण). |
| sticker | स्टिकर | proposed | Apple and Microsoft Hindi. | |
| tab | टैब | proposed | Apple and Microsoft. The tab character stays literal in code. | |
| text element | text block | टेक्स्ट एलिमेंट | proposed | Apple VoiceOver has the same compound; consistent with एलिमेंट. |
| thickness | मोटाई | proposed | Microsoft Publisher and Krita; natural Hindi. Kept distinct from वज़न (typeface weight). | |
| Transform | ट्रांसफ़ॉर्म | proposed | Loan (general-software evidence ट्रांस्फ़ॉर्म); command form ट्रांसफ़ॉर्म करें. Rejected रूपांतरण (Krita), kept for file conversion. | |
| transformation | ट्रांसफ़ॉर्मेशन | proposed | Derived from ट्रांसफ़ॉर्म. Rejected परिवर्तन (Blender): just 'change'. | |
| True Fill | final black rendering | असली भरण | proposed | House voice: असली is the plain word for 'the real thing', on भरण. Rejected वास्तविक भरण (formal). |
| uncheck | अनचेक करें | proposed | Apple VoiceOver, Keynote, Pages. | |
| Vexy coins | Vexy coins | do-not-translate | ||
| waterfall | size ladder preview | वॉटरफ़ॉल | proposed | Apple Font Book (वॉटरफ़ॉल सैंपल दिखाएँ). Rejected जलप्रपात/झरना: literal waterfalls. |
| weight | वज़न | proposed | Everyday word, five general-software attestations in the corpus. Rejected भार (Microsoft/Blender), which reads as physical load, and मोटाई, reserved for measured thickness. | |
| whitespace | व्हाइट स्पेस | proposed | Apple Keynote/Pages; the Adobe Hindi site writes वाइट स्पेस. Rejected सफेद रिक्ति. |
Vector drawing¶
| English term | Fallback original term | Hindi | Translation status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appearance panel | Appearance पैनल | proposed | Illustrator has no Hindi interface, so the panel name stays as the user sees it; only पैनल is translated. | |
| autotrace | bitmap to outline conversion | ऑटोट्रेस | proposed | No attestation; loan; ट्रेस is common in Hindi graphics usage. |
| centerline | केंद्र रेखा | proposed | Microsoft Publisher has केंद्रीयरेखा; written as two words with रेखा, like आधार रेखा. | |
| clipping mask | क्लिपिंग मास्क | proposed | Adobe Hindi site (क्लिपिंग मास्क्स). | |
| control point | control handle point | नियंत्रण बिंदु | proposed | No attestation; natural words (Microsoft नियंत्रण, Apple बिंदु). बिंदु is used for every geometric point so that पॉइंट stays the typographic point size (Apple). |
| Fill Grid | grid of fill lines | भरण ग्रिड | proposed | Derived from भरण and ग्रिड; fallback 'grid of fill lines'. |
| fill mode | line fill style | भरण मोड | proposed | Derived from भरण and the everyday loan मोड. |
| G2 continuity | G2 निरंतरता | proposed | No attestation; G2 stays Latin; निरंतरता is the common word for continuity. | |
| Live Effect | editable effect | लाइव इफ़ेक्ट | proposed | No attestation; loan of Illustrator's term; Illustrator has no Hindi interface (Adobe Hindi site writes इफ़ेक्ट्स). |
| off-curve point | point off the curve | वक्र से बाहर का बिंदु | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'point off the curve' translated. |
| on-curve point | point on the curve | वक्र पर स्थित बिंदु | proposed | No attestation; fallback 'point on the curve' translated; वक्र is the Microsoft and Inkscape word for a curve. |
| outline | आउटलाइन | proposed | Apple Font Book (Outlines = आउटलाइन) and Adobe Hindi site. Rejected रूपरेखा, which in Hindi means a plan or synopsis. | |
| stroke | स्ट्रोक | proposed | Apple, Microsoft, Inkscape, Krita, Adobe Hindi site. Distinct from भरण (fill). | |
| stroke cap | stroke end cap | स्ट्रोक कैप | proposed | No attestation; loan of the vector term. Kept apart from टर्मिनल (letter anatomy) and कैपिटल (capital letters). |
| stroke join | stroke corner shape | स्ट्रोक जोड़ | proposed | No attestation; जोड़ is the natural Hindi word for a joint or join. |
| tangent node | straight-to-curve node | टैंजेंट नोड | proposed | No attestation; loan. Rejected स्पर्शरेखीय नोड (schoolbook Sanskritism, too long for a label). |
| tonal map | darkness map | टोनल मैप | proposed | No attestation; loan compound; fallback 'darkness map'. |
| Tunni line | टुन्नी रेखा | proposed | Eponym (Eduardo Tunni) transliterated, with natural रेखा. |