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Free Bangla Fonts - Project to create free, completely Unicode compliant Open Type Bengali fonts

The Free Bangla Fonts project is dedicated to creating free, completely Unicode compliant Open Type Bengali fonts. It also aims to be the central resource for getting and developing Free Bengali fonts. The initial goal is to release a full set of Bengali fonts that supports all the major Bengali Yuktakhars (conjuncts). The Akaash set of fonts aims to be such a set. We also plan to convert the other existing Free Bangla (non Unicode compliant) fonts into Unicode compliant Bengali Open Type fonts.

Five sets of fonts are currently under development. The Akaash set will have three OTFs, AkaashNormal.ttf, AkaashWide.ttf and AkaashSlanted.ttf. Development is currently going on in the AkaashNormal.ttf, and we aim to move to AkaashWide and AkaashSlanted as soon as possible. The Ani set has two fonts, Ani.ttf and Mitra.ttf. The Mitra font is a monospaced fonts, which is useful in certain specialised applications. The Mukti set has four fonts, MuktiRegular.ttf, MuktiBold.ttf, MuktiNarrow.ttf, and MuktiNarrowBold.ttf. The Likhan and Sagar sets of fonts are also being developed.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/
Source tarball http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freebangfont/Akaash.pkg/0.75/Akaash-0.75.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/downloads.html
Version 0.75 Akaash (beta) released on 2002-12-09
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User guide available in HTML format from http://www.bengalinux.org/howto/bengali.html#FONTS
Support contacts

Announce List<freebangfont-announce@nongnu.org> http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freebangfont-announce
Developer List<freebangfont-devel@nongnu.org> http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freebangfont-devel

Project contacts

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License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-04-24
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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