AI image generators get Indic scripts wrong — measurably.
We rendered 102 real Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, and English phrases through the Studio99 API and through a leading general-purpose AI image generator — one shot each, no cherry-picking — and had a fluent reader grade every result for exact text.
Head-to-head on exact text across all 102 prompts: Studio99 was correct on 51 prompts the other system got wrong; it was correct on zero that Studio99 got wrong.
Exact text, by script
Number of prompts rendered with every character correct, in order.
See it for yourself
Unedited outputs, one shot each. Studio99 on the left, the AI image generator on the right.
How we ran it
102 real phrases — 70 Hindi, 10 Marathi, 20 Gujarati, 2 English — spanning weddings, festivals, deities, names, and civic phrases, weighted toward the conjuncts, matras, and halant sequences that break AI generators.
The first result from each system, single shot. No "best of four", no retries. Real-world behavior.
Every output scored for exact text, conjuncts, vowel signs, script purity, legibility, and production-usability. The grader saw the target text next to the image.
Studio99’s own rendering defects count against us — that is why our legibility sits at 82%, not near-perfect: a few of our results are stylized enough that a reader has to work for them, and we docked those honestly.
Why Studio99 gets it right
Image generators draw letters pixel by pixel, so they hallucinate conjuncts, drop matras, and sometimes switch scripts. Studio99 doesn’t generate glyphs — it composes typography from real, licensed Indic fonts through a deterministic engine. The characters are correct by construction; what varies is the artistry, not the spelling. You get exact text as editable SVG or PNG, every call.
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