free devanagari font download

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	AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L1 [ show all samples ] (AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L1.ttf) Source: Free download from the Database of Indian Sacred Scriptures at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Stats: Version 1.00 has 347 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L2 [ show all samples ] (AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L2.ttf) Note: Has fewer ligatures than AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L1. Source: Free download from the Database of Indian Sacred Scriptures at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Stats: Version 1.00 has 347 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3 [ show all samples ] (AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3.ttf) Note: Has vertical ligatures. Source: Free download from the Database of Indian Sacred Scriptures at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Stats: Version 1.00 has 347 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Akhil HE [ show all samples ] (Akhil_HE.TTF) Note: Fine-tuned (instructed) for better display at small point sizes. Source: Available for purchase from ISE - Aditi Info. Stats: Version 1.00 has 397 glyphs and 116 kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Latin
	Akshar Unicode [ show all samples ] (Akshar.ttf) Source: Free download from Kamban Software. Stats: Version 0.07 December 23, 2004 has 1,751 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Kannada, Malayalam (old style), Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu
	Arial Unicode MS [ show all samples ] (arialuni.ttf) Source: Comes with Microsoft's Office 2000, FrontPage 2000, Office XP and Publisher 2002. Stats: Version 1.00 has 50,377 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Balochi, Persian, Shahmukhi, Urdu), Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Georgian(Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Kannada, Korean (Hangul only), Latin, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Farsi, Urdu), Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic (default, Japanese, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional), Kana (default, Japanese), Kannada, Korean, Tamil
	CDAC-GISTSurekh [ show all samples ] (CDACSRNT.TTF and CDACSRBT.TTF [bold]) Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site. Stats: Version 2.0 has 666 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	CDAC-GISTYogesh [ show all samples ] (CDACYGNT.TTF [normal], CDACYGBT.TTF [bold], and CDACYGIT.TTF [italic] from GISTYogeshN.zip) Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site. Stats: Version 2.0 has 666 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Chandas [ show all samples ] (Chandas.ttf) Note: Designed for Classical Sanskrit & Vedic (with accents). This font supports thousands of ligatures and is also usable for modern languages written with Devanagari. Style: Chandas uses the Calcutta/Kolkata style of Devanagari script while its sister font Uttara uses the Bombay/Mumbai style (although it's not evident with the characters used as the sample text). Source: Free download from Chandas. Stats: Version 1.2 has 5,002 glyphs and 1,597 kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Latin (with extensive coverage of letters with diacritics) OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Latin
	Code2000 [ show all samples ] (code2000.ttf) Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage. Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
	Devanagari MT [ show all samples ] (akshdeva.ttf) Source: Installed with the free edition of Aksharamala 2004. Requires registration. Stats: Version 1.00 has 696 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	DVBOTSurekh [ show all samples ] (DVBOTSRN.ttf) Source: Free download from Deutsche Welle's Hindi page. Stats: Version 5/17/2003 has 654 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	FreeSans [ show all samples ] (FreeSans.ttf, FreeSansBold.ttf, FreeSansOblique.ttf, and FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz) Note: Bold and oblique styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font. Source: Free download from Savannah. Stats: Version 1.76 has 2,734 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: default, Armenian, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin
	Gargi [ show all samples ] (Gargi.ttf) Source: Free download from project janabhaaratii. Stats: Version 1.9 has 450 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: default, Devanagari
	Gurumaa [ show all samples ] (Gurumaa_v128.ttf [regular], Gurumaa_v128_b.ttf [bold], Gurumaa_v128_i.ttf [italic], and Gurumaa_v128_bi.ttf [bold italic] from 16645-Gurumaa_v128.tar.bz2) Source: Free download from KDE-LOOK (Linux). Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .bz2 download. Stats: Version 1.28 has 270 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Jaipur Unicode NFLC [ show all samples ] (Jaipur Unicode NFLC.ttf from jaipurunicode.zip) Source: Free download from the Hindi page at the University of Pennsylvania. Stats: Version 6/1/99 has 523 glyphs and 413 kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Latin
	JanaHindi [ show all samples ] (RKJanaHindi.TTF from janahindi.zip) Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site. Stats: Version 0.99.1 has 675 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	JanaMarathi [ show all samples ] (RVJanaMarathi.TTF from janamarathi.zip) Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site. Stats: Version 1.00 July 7, 2004 has 680 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	JanaSanskrit [ show all samples ] (RJJanaSanskrit.TTF from JanaSanskrit.zip) Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site. Stats: Version 0.99.1 has 941 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Kalimati [ show all samples ] (Kalimati.ttf) Source: Free download from the font guide section of Nepali-language book archive Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya. Stats: Version 1.20 has 696 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Kanjirowa [ show all samples ] (Kanjirowa.ttf) Source: Free download from the font guide section of Nepali-language book archive Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya. Stats: Version 1.0 has 702 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Lohit Hindi [ show all samples ] (lohit_hi.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz) Source: Free download from Ubuntu. Stats: Version 1.00 has 344 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Lucida Sans [ show all samples ] (LucidaSansRegular.ttf, LucidaSansDemiBold.ttf, and may be others depending on the source) Note: The LSANS.TTF version of this font supports Latin only. Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2. Stats: Version 1.20 has 2,929 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Mangal [ show all samples ] (mangal.ttf) Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000. Stats: Version 1.20 has 675 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Osho [ show all samples ] (Osho_v125.ttf [regular], Osho_v125_b.ttf [bold], Osho_v125_i.ttf [italic], and Osho_v125_bi.ttf [bold italic] from 177720-Osho_v125.tar.bz2) Source: Free download from KDE-LOOK (Linux). Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .bz2 download. Stats: Version 1.25 has 270 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Raghindi [ show all samples ] (raghu.ttf) Note: Raghu and Raghu8 (raghu1.ttf) were beta versions of Raghindi. Source: Free download from Nepali.Info language site. Stats: Version 0.99 has 675 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	RaghuHindi [ show all samples ] (RKRaghuHindi_ship.ttf) Warning: There are issues using this font in Microsoft Word. It seems to work OK in other editors including BabelPad, WordPad, Notepad, and WorldPad. Source: Free download from IndiX: Indian Language support for the Linux Operating System. Stats: Version 1.00 has 675 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Samanata [ show all samples ] (Samanata.ttf) Source: Free download from Nepali-language book archive Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya. Stats: Version 1.00 has 793 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Samyak [ show all samples ] (Samyak.ttf) Source: Free download from gnowledge.org. Stats: Version 1.0 has 1,147 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Gujarati, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil
	SamyakSans [ show all samples ] (SamyakSans.ttf) Source: Free download from gnowledge.org. Stats: Version 1.0 has 2,045 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Bengali, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil
	Sanskrit 2003 [ show all samples ] (Sanskrit2003.ttf) Source: Free download from Omkarananda Ashram Himalayas Stats: Version 1.05 (August 22, 2004) has 1,608 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Santipur OT [ show all samples ] (SantipurOT.ttf) Source: Free download from the Santipur OT page. Stats: Version 1.1 has 739 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Saraswati5 [ show all samples ] (SaraswatiNormal.ttf and SaraswatiBold.ttf) Note: This font does not have the OpenType tables necessary for Devanagari. Source: Free download from Sun Microsystems (after registration). Stats: Version 1/17/03 has 1,803 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Latin
	shiDeva [ show all samples ] (ShiDevaSk.ttf from Devanagari_OpenType.zip) Source: Free download from Ernst Tremel. (Click "Hindi" on the left to get to the download page.) Stats: Version 2.00 (2004 initial release) has 750 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	SHREE-DV0726-OT [ show all samples ] (SHREE-DV0726-OT.TTF) Source: Free download from Ardh Kumbh. Click on the "Download Hindi Font Now" image/link at the bottom of the main page. Stats: Version 1.00 has 344 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	SiddhiUni [ show all samples ] (siddhibeta1.ttf) Source: Free download from Nepali.Info language site. Stats: Version 1.00 has 671 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Thyaka Rabison [ show all samples ] (tr.ttf) Source: Free download from the font guide section of Nepali-language book archive Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya. Stats: Version 1.0 has 694 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Uttara [ show all samples ] (uttara.ttf) Note: Designed for Classical Sanskrit & Vedic (with accents). This font supports thousands of ligatures and is also usable for modern languages written with Devanagari. Style: Uttara uses the Bombay/Mumbai style of Devanagari script while its sister font Chandas uses the Calcutta/Kolkata style (although it's not evident with the characters use for the sample text). Source: Free download from Chandas. Stats: Version 1.2 has 5,092 glyphs and 1,597 kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Latin (with extensive coverage of letters with diacritics) OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Latin
	zviewGurumaa [ show all samples ] (zviewGurumaa_v128.ttf from 16645-Gurumaa_v128.tar.bz2) Source: Free download from KDE-LOOK (Linux). Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .bz2 download. Stats: Version 1.28 has 270 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari