IndicFontsList

From IndLinux

List of available Indic fonts for scripts encoded in Unicode.

Only Unicode encoded TTFs, Unicode encoded Opentype to be included here.
For each font put name - url for download for individual file or tarball/zip for font collection.
Put license wrt each font/set ( GPL/LGPL/OSS/ PROP - non-commercial readonly freedownload ).
Commercial fonts not to be included.

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Contents 1 Bengali 2 Devanagari 3 Gujarati 4 Gurmukhi 5 Kannada 6 Malayalam 7 Oriya 8 Tamil 9 Telugu 10 Urdu 11 Font collections 12 Lohit 13 Freefont 14 Samyak 15 ILDC 16 Raghu series 17 Misc Links

Bengali

• Mukti Narrow - http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/Font/Mukti/MuktiNarrow.ttf (GPL)
• Likhan - http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/Font/Likhan/LikhanNormal.ttf, http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/Font/Likhan/LikhanNormal.otf (GPL)
• Jamrul - http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/Font/Jamrul/JamrulNormal.ttf (?)
• Hortuki - http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/Font/Jamrul/JamrulNormal.ttf (?)
• Samyak Sans - http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/SamyakSans_Font/new/SamyakSans_Bengali.ttf (GPL)
• SolaimanLipi, Rupali - http://www.ekushey.org/projects/otf_bangla_fonts/ (GPL)

Devanagari

• AksharYogini Font set - Normal,Bold,Italic,Bold-Italic Free for use, readonly.
• Chandas (GPL)
• Gargi 1.9 (GPL)
• Gurmaa (GPL)
• Osho (GPL)
• Samyak (GPL)
• Sarai font (GPL)
• Uttara (GPL)
• Janahindi (PROP)
• Janamarathi (PROP)
• Kalimati (PROP)
• Kanjirowa (PROP)
• Jagadamba (PROP)
• Raghu (PROP)
• Sakal Bharati (PROP)
• Samanata (PROP)
• Sanskrit2003 (PROP)
• Shideva (PROP)
• Shree-3 (PROP)
• Shree-2 (PROP)
• Shree-1 (PROP)
• Surekh (PROP)
• Yogesh (PROP)
• C-DAC GIST , contains Aishwarya, Ajay, Akshar, Bhima, Devendra, Dhruv, Ganesh, Kishor, Maya, Mohini, Nanda, Raghav,Raman, Sharad, Shweta,Subodh,Suman, Vinay, Vinit, Vishakha (PROP)

More here - http://www.devanaagarii.net/fonts/

Gujarati

• Samyak - http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/Samyak_Font/new/Samyak_Gujarati.ttf (GPL)
• Padmaa - http://www.janabhaaratii.org.in/janabhaaratii/src/fonts/padmaa_0.7/padmaa.ttf (GPL)
• Rekha - http://www.utkarsh.org/downloads/Rekha-medium.ttf (GPL)
• Aakar - http://www.utkarsh.org/downloads/aakar-medium.ttf (GPL)

Gurmukhi

• Samyak Sans - http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/SamyakSans_Font/new/SamyakSans_Gurmukhi.ttf (GPL)
• AnmolUni - http://guca.sourceforge.net/typography/fonts/anmoluni/ (GPL)

Kannada

• Akshar Unicode - http://www.kamban.com.au/
• Arial Unicode - http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/kannadafonts.html (PROP)
• JanaKannada - http://tdil.mit.gov.in/download/janakannada.htm (PROP)
• Sampige - http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/kannadafonts.html (GPL) (This is an incomplete font)
• Tunga - http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/kannadafonts.html (PROP) - (Shipped with Microsoft Windows)
• Mallige - http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/brahmi/kanotf.zip?download (GPL)
• Kedage - http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/brahmi/kanotf.zip?download (GPL)

Malayalam

• Samyak - http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/Samyak_Font/new/Samyak_Malayalam.ttf (GPL)
• Anjalioldlipi - http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/varamozhi/AnjaliOldLipi-0.730.ttf?use_mirror=kent (Public Domain)
• Meera - http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/fonts/malayalam-fonts-04/Meera_04.ttf (GPL)
• Rachana - http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/fonts/malayalam-fonts-04/Rachana_04.ttf (GPL)
• RaghuMalayalam http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/fonts/malayalam-fonts-04/RaghuMalayalamSans2.ttf (GPL)
• Suruma - http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/fonts/malayalam-fonts-04/suruma2.ttf (GPL)
• Dyuthi- http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/smc/fonts/malayalam-fonts-04/Dyuthi3.ttf (GPL)

Oriya

• Utkal - download (GPL, gzip compressed. Best coverage.)
• Samyak - download (GPL, complete coverage.)
• Raghu Oriya - download (GPL, works with IndiX, additional work needed to work with other renderers)

Tamil

• Samyak - http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/Samyak_Font/new/Samyak_Tamil.ttf (GPL)
• Tamil unicode fonts at Tamilinix group

Telugu

• Pothana2000 (default) - http://www.kavya-nandanam.com/Pothana2k.zip (GNU GPL)
• Vemana2000 - http://www.kavya-nandanam.com/dload.htm (GNU GPL)
• Srujuna (GNU GPL)

Urdu

I cannot read the Urdu script, and hence cannot comment on the degree of coverage.

There is a SourceForge project, Pakistani Typography, for making GPL fonts in the Arabic script.

• PakType Naqsh - download (GPL)
• PakType Tehreer - download (GPL)

Several fonts are available from the CRULP site (English version), but under a non-free licence.

• Nafees Nastaleeq -download (Proprietary)
• Nafees Naskh with Arabic support - download (Proprietary)
• Nafees Pakistani Naskh - download (Proprietary)
• Nafees Web Naskh - download (Proprietary)

SIL International has fonts for the Arabic script that support both OpenType, and the Mac OSX AAT format. See this page for details.

• Scheherazade Regular - download (Proprietary)
• Lateef Regular - download (Proprietary)

Another non-free font from urdustan.com.

• AlKatib1 - download (Proprietary)

Font collections

• The Samyak Indic font collection from HBCSE - download (GPL)

Lohit

Lohit set of fonts is Indic font collection available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora.
Currently, the font family supports 16 Indian languages: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil and Telugu. Now, Fedora Project and its contributors took the responsibility to consolidate the further efforts and improvements of the Lohit fonts.

Various download options for the Lohit fonts are available from the projects home page at:
https://fedorahosted.org/lohit/
The fonts are released under GNU GPLv2.
The latest tar ball of the complete set of fonts can be downloaded from here.

Freefont

Free UCS outline fonts – Freefont for short – is a free/open-source collaboration aiming to provide free (GPL-ed) OpenType fonts covering as complete range of ISO 10646/Unicode as reasonably achievable.

• http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freefont/ (GPL)

Currently supported Indic scripts in the Free UCS outline font suite:

Script	Free Serif				Free Sans				Free Mono
	regular	italic	bold	bold italic	regular	oblique	bold	bold oblique	regular	oblique	bold	bold oblique
Devanagari	none	none	none	none	Gargi 1.9	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
Bengali	SolaimanLipi	SolaimanLipi	none	none	Rupali	Rupali	none	none	none	none	none	none
Gurmukhi	none	none	none	none	AnmolUni	none	AnmolUni Bold	none	none	none	none	none
Gujarati	none	none	none	none	Padmaa	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
Oriya	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
Tamil	Samyak	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
Telugu	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
Kannada	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
Malayalam	Rachana	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none

Samyak

Samyak series of Open Type fonts currently covers 5 Indic scripts with serif style and 7 with san serif. It also gives a single Multilingual font file covering all the scripts available in the family. So that the multilingual text can be rendered with uniform style and size. Also the user doesn't need to change the font each time the language is changed while editing the document.

A complete list of font files and their associated .sfd file along with the samples for each script are available on the following URL for download.

http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/font.htm (GPL)

The project homepage with latest downloads and development related updates can found here:

http://sarovar.org/projects/samyak/ (GPL)

ILDC

Fonts released as part of CD releases by TDIL/MIT/CDAC. All this fonts are readonly & free for non-commercial use. Some packages are in windows installer forms.

• http://www.ildc.in/gistnew/C-DAC/GIST-OT-Fonts%20Installer.zip
• http://www.ildc.in/gistnew/Modular_Info/ot-inst.zip
• http://www.ildc.in/gistnew/Cadgraf/ot-inst.zip
• http://www.ildc.in/gistnew/CyberScape/OTFonts.zip
• http://www.ildc.in/GIST/C-DAC/OT-Fonts/Fonts.tar.gz
• http://www.ildc.in/GIST/Cadgraf/Cadgraf.zip
• http://www.ildc.in/GIST/Modular/Modular.zip
• http://www.ildc.in/telugu/downloads/C-DAC/OT-Fonts.zip

Raghu series

Raghu series of fonts for use with Indix

• Includes fonts for 9 scripts, in shipped and with OTF tables (VOLT format?)

Misc Links

• Compilation of font list & samples for many languages
• Luc Devroye compilation of font lists
• Free and proprietary fonts for devanagari and other indic scripts