How to Use Marathi Font in Adobe Photoshop
Enable Indic text in Photoshop, install Marathi fonts correctly, and troubleshoot joining/ligature issues.
Before you start
Adobe Photoshop has a well-hidden "Middle Eastern & South Asian" text engine that must be enabled for Marathi to render correctly. This guide walks you through enabling it, installing fonts, and fixing common Marathi typography issues in Photoshop.
Step-by-step instructions
- Install your Marathi TTF. Install Tiro Devanagari Marathi or AMS Manthan via Windows/Mac font installation.
- Enable Indic text engine. Photoshop → Preferences → Type → Choose Text Engine Options → select "Middle Eastern & South Asian" → OK.
- Restart Photoshop. Required for the text engine change to take effect.
- Create a text layer. Select the Type tool → click on canvas.
- Change engine to World-Ready. In the Paragraph panel menu (three lines) → World-Ready Layout.
- Select Marathi font. Character panel → font dropdown → pick Tiro Devanagari Marathi or Mangal.
- Type Marathi. Use Marathi keyboard or paste Unicode text from our generator.
- Fix joining issues. If letters don't join, confirm World-Ready Layout is active. Also verify your font has proper Devanagari ligature support (use Mangal or Tiro as safe defaults).
🎯 Tip: If something doesn't work, scroll to FAQs below for common fixes.
Recommended Marathi fonts for this use case
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does Marathi look disconnected in Photoshop?
Your text engine is set to Latin/East Asian. Switch to Middle Eastern & South Asian in Preferences, then use World-Ready Layout in the Paragraph panel.
Free Marathi fonts that work in Photoshop?
Tiro Devanagari Marathi, Noto Sans Devanagari, Mukta, Kalam — all Google Fonts free for commercial use.
Photoshop not seeing my font?
Close and restart. Make sure font is installed system-wide, not just for a single user.
Kerning looks wrong with Marathi text?
Set tracking to 0 and disable optical kerning for Devanagari — use Metrics kerning instead.
Can I use Kruti Dev in Photoshop?
Yes, but only as a legacy font. Enable the standard Latin text engine for Kruti Dev (not World-Ready), since it's ASCII-based.
Marathi text shows as boxes?
The font you've selected doesn't include Devanagari glyphs. Switch to a proper Marathi font like Mangal or Tiro.