Which Font Does Your Typing Exam Use? (SSC, CPCT, RRB, OACCT)

The font for your CPCT typing test — and for every other government typing exam — decides how you should prepare, and practising in the wrong font is the single most common, most avoidable mistake aspirants make. Indian exams split between Kruti Dev (legacy) and Mangal (Unicode); Bangladesh uses Bijoy. Match your practice font and layout to your target exam before you start drilling, or you will spend weeks building the wrong muscle memory. The table on this page maps the major exams to their required font and layout so you can fix this on day one.

The reason the stakes are so high is that a font is not just how text looks — for typing tests it dictates the layout, and therefore the physical key positions your fingers must learn. Kruti Dev implies one set of positions; Mangal with Remington Gail implies another. The two do not transfer cleanly, so the choice you make in week one shapes everything that follows.

Why the font decides your preparation

• Kruti Dev and Mangal use different key positions. Hours spent on one do not transfer cleanly to the other, so picking correctly first is what protects your prep time.
• Exam software renders a specific font; if you trained on another, the on-screen keyboard will feel foreign on test day, when nerves are already high.
• The font also implies the layout — Remington versus InScript — that you must learn. Get the font right and the layout follows; get it wrong and you are effectively starting over.
• Unicode fonts like Mangal render identically on every machine, which is exactly why modern exams standardise on them.

Legacy vs Unicode: what the split actually means

Beyond which exam wants which font, it helps to understand why the two families exist, because it explains a lot of the confusion candidates run into:

Aspect	Legacy (Kruti Dev)	Unicode (Mangal)
How text is stored	Mapped onto ASCII code points	True Unicode
Displays correctly	Only with the font installed	Everywhere, no font needed
Typical exams	Some SSC and state posts	CPCT, Delhi HC, modern posts
Where you still meet it	Older office documents, print	Web, email, e-governance

This is supporting context only — for the authoritative exam-by-exam mapping, use the structured table on this page.

The big myth: Kruti Dev for CPCT

The most damaging myth in Hindi typing prep is that CPCT accepts Kruti Dev. It does not — CPCT uses Mangal (Unicode) only. Many candidates lose months drilling Kruti Dev and then arrive unable to find their keys on the Mangal layout the software actually renders. If CPCT is your goal, practise Mangal with Remington Gail exclusively from the start; the Remington Gail layout chart shows every key, and the Mangal font page explains how to enable it.

What the wrong choice actually costs

The consequence is rarely a few lost marks — it is usually a wasted preparation cycle. A candidate who trained in Kruti Dev 010 for a Mangal exam does not simply type a little slower; they hunt for keys that are in different places, lose accuracy under time pressure, and often miss the cutoff entirely. Because typing speed is built through repetition, unlearning the wrong positions and relearning the right ones can take as long as starting fresh. That is why this one decision deserves a few careful minutes before any practice begins.

What to do next

1. Find your exam in the table on this page and note the font + layout it requires.
2. Read the backspace rules guide — correction policies vary and cause disqualifications.
3. Drill the correct layout in LearnType's courses and rehearse with the timed PYQ passages, then check your score with the WPM calculator.
4. Always confirm the requirement in the official notification for your post; exam policies are updated between cycles.

Last updated: June 2026.