Fonts

Unicode & CTL

This website uses Unicode to publish all content, whether English or otherwise. Support for Complex-Text-Layout (CTL) and Unicode is needed to display Indian languages properly. For more information regarding Unicode, CTL and other configuration / implementation details, readers are directed to the Wikipedia website. For installation of fonts, users are requested to check their respective operating system manuals.

Provided below are links to various fonts for Indian languages, which may be needed to optimally display content of Indian languages.

Roman/Latin

For optimally viewing this website and optionally printing the contents thereof, it is highly recommended that you download and install the DejaVu family of fonts, if it is already not present on your system. It you are seeing weird font sizes and shapes for certain diacritic characters, most likely you will need to install these fonts. These fonts are released under the GNU-GPL License by the authors. Further information may be had from the DejaVu website.

Devanagari – Sanskrit, Hindi & Marathi

Sanskrit 2003 – Sanskrit 2003 is an excellent Unicode font  developed by Omkarananda Ashram for the Devanagari script which includes over a thousand unique ligatures. Optimized for publishing and printing content Sanskrit, Sanskrit 2003 also has extensive support for Hindi, Marathi and other regional languages which are written in Devanagari. Sanskrit 2003 is shipped with Itranslator 2003 software, also developed by the same institution which along with other font(s) for typesetting and publishing content in Sanskrit.

Tamil

“Swaminatha“, is a beautiful typeface for the Tamil script, developed by your’s truly which supports Unicode and all the old tamil ligatures.  The glyphs of this font are based on those of the ‘IITM-Tam’. The font is released as a freeware and one is free to use it for personal/commercial purposes. “Swaminatha” is named after the Lord of Swamimalai and is humbly submitted unto His feet with devotion.

Download Swaminatha True Type Unicode Font.