Fonts for Devanāgarī script

Siddhanta - Bombay, Cakravat, Calcutta, Nepali

Format: ttf
Variants: regular
Support: Devanāgarī, Latin (ISO 159199 with extensive coverage of letters with diacritics), Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages)
Stats: 1,980 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Designer: Mihail Bayaryn
URL: www.svayambhava.org
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Release Date: 2011 (Version 1.000)

The font can be used for Saṃskṛt, Vedic, Hindi, Nepali and other languages which use the Devanāgarī script.

The main features of the Siddhanta font:

• Ligatures. Siddhanta uses vertical ligature composition; due to this feature it supports the largest amount of Devanāgarī ligatures;
• Variations. Siddhanta supports many ligature variations and script variations Calcutta, Bombay and Nepali styles;
• Character set. Siddhanta contains Vedic and Devanāgarī Extended Unicode character sets. The font also contains Latin and Cyrillic character sets and can be used for Saṃskṛt transliteration;
• Compatibility. Siddhanta supports Unicode 6.0 standard and is compatible with Intranslator 2003 and partly compatible with Chandas font;
• Hinting. Siddhanta is a manually hinted true type font - it is good for use both in screen and in print; its line weight is good for eyes;
• Calligraphy. Siddhanta is a calligraphically precise and realistic font - there are no gaps between half-forms and full forms of characrets. The font can be used as samples for learning the Devanāgarī writing.
• Free. Siddhanta font software (including font variations and Vaidika IME) is published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. The limitation of commercial usage means that the font cannot be sold as commercial product but can be used as font in publishing, printing and retailing of other commercial products. Siddhanta can be used as web font. It can be included in free and commercial software distributives as free addition, without any additional payment for it. Latin and Cyrillic glyph sets (based on DejaVu font) can be used according to free license.
• Accents. Siddhanta supports both usual Ṛg Veda and Sāmaveda accents.

Download: siddhanta.ttf | siddhanta_for_indesign.ttf (beta) | siddhanta1.ttf | siddhanta2.ttf | siddanta-cakravat.ttf | siddhanta-cakravat1.ttf | siddhanta-cakravat2.ttf | siddhanta-calcutta.ttf | siddhanta-calcutta1.ttf | siddhanta-calcutta2.ttf | siddhanta-nepali.ttf | siddhanta-vyakarana.ttf

Chandas and Uttara

Format: ttf
Variants: regular
Support: Devanāgarī, Latin (ISO 159199 with extensive coverage of letters with diacritics), Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages)
Stats: 5,092 glyphs and 1,597 kerning pairs. 4347 glyphs: 325 half-forms, 960 half-forms context-variations, 2743 ligature-signs
Designer: Mihail Bayaryn
URL: www.sanskritweb.net/cakram/
License: GNU General Public License
Release Date: 2008 (Version 1.2)

The font is notable for containing a particularly extensive set of conjunct ligatures for Saṃskṛt and also supporting Vedic accents unavailable in other Devanāgarī fonts at the time of its release. Though this font was primarily designed for writing Saṃskṛt, it may be used for all languages written in the Devanāgarī script, including Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali.