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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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)
- Lohit Bengali (GPL)
Devanagari
- Gargi v1.9 - http://www.janabhaaratii.org.in/janabhaaratii/src/fonts/gargi_1.9/gargi.ttf (GPL) OR
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/gargi/ (GPL), suits well for a desktop UI font, so could be in default system font.
- Janahindi - http://tdil.mit.gov.in/download/janahindi.zip (PROP)
- Janamarathi - http://tdil.mit.gov.in/download/janamarathi.zip (PROP)
- Raghu - http://tdil.mit.gov.in/download/Raghu.zip (PROP)
- Chandas - http://chandas.cakram.org/chandas.ttf (GPL)
- Samyak - http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/Samyak_Font/new/Samyak_Devanagari.ttf (GPL)
- Lohit Hindi (GPL)
- Sarai font (GPL)
- AksharYogini Free for use. Exact terms unclear.
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)
- Lohit Gujarati (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)
- Lohit Punjabi (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)
- Lohit Kannada (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)
- Lohit Malayalam (GPL)
- 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)
- Lohit Oriya (GPL)
Tamil
- Samyak - http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/Samyak_Font/new/Samyak_Tamil.ttf (GPL)
- Lohit Tamil (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)
- Lohit Telugu (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.
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.
Another non-free font from urdustan.com.
- AlKatib1 - download (Proprietary)
Font collections
- The Samyak Indic font collection from HBCSE - download (GPL)
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.
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
