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Annapurna SIL Fonts

Devanagari Unicode fonts covering diverse Devanagari-based languages

Jon Coblentz, 2013-02-20; 10042 reads

Table of Contents for this web page:

    Introduction to Annapurna SIL Fonts
    Overview of the Annapurna SIL Font Packages
    License
    Downloads
    Release History
    Support

Introduction to Annapurna SIL Fonts

Thank you for your interest in the Annapurna SIL fonts. The goal for this product is to provide a Unicode-based font family with support for the many diverse languages that use Devanagari script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive. These fonts are named after the majestic Annapurna mountain range of Nepal.

The fonts makes use of state-of-the-art OpenType® and Graphite font technologies to provide accurate typography, such as the need to accurately position combining marks, form conjuncts and provide Graphite features and OpenType Stylistic Sets for variant glyphs.

For applications that do not make use of Graphite or the OpenType Stylistic Sets feature, we provide a font package for Nepal.

Overview of the Annapurna SIL Font Packages

Annapurna SIL is a TrueType font with “smart font” capabilities added using OpenType and Graphite font technologies. This means that complex typographic issues such as the placement of combining marks or the formation of conjuncts and ligatures are handled by the font, provided you are running an application that provides an adequate level of support for one of these smart font technologies.

Design

Annapurna SIL has a calligraphic design that reflects the stroke contrast of writing the characters with a broad nib used for Devanagari.

Character repertoire

The font includes the legacy Rupee Sign (U+20A8) and the Indian Rupee Sign (U+20B9) from the Currency Symbols block. A selection of characters from the General Punctuation block, such as various-sized spaces, are also supported; a utility such as SIL ViewGlyph can be used to examine the exact repertoire of each font.

Font variants

There are some Devanagari character shape differences in different parts of South Asia. These can be accessed by using Graphite features or the OpenType Stylistic Sets feature. The "Font Features" document shows the Graphite and OpenType features supporting the variant glyphs.

Annapurna SIL Font Features Jon Coblentz, 2012-10-25 Download "AnnapurnaSIL-features.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 407KB [1130 downloads]

Keyboards

Annapurna SIL does not include any keyboarding helps or utilities. If you cannot use the built-in keyboards of the operating system, you should install the appropriate keyboard and input method for the characters of the language you wish to use. If you want to enter characters that are not supported by any system keyboard, the Keyman program ( http://www.tavultesoft.com) can be helpful on Windows systems. Also available for Windows is MSKLC ( http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx). For other platforms, KMFL ( http://kmfl.sourceforge.net/), XKB ( http://www.x.org/wiki/XKB) or Ukelele (http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele) can be helpful.

If you want to enter characters that are not supported by any system keyboard, and to access the full Unicode range, we suggest you use gucharmap, kcharselect on Ubuntu or similar software. Another method of entering some symbols is provided by a few applications such as Adobe InDesign. They can display a glyph palette that shows all the glyphs in a font and allow you to enter them by clicking on the glyph you want.

License

Annapurna SIL is released under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), version 1.1. Copyright (c) 1997-2012, SIL International (http://scripts.sil.org/) with Reserved Font Names "Annapurna" and "SIL".

Downloads

If you agree to the terms of use (described in the license above), then download the fonts from the following links.

Font downloads

Previous versions

Variant font downloads

Release History

2012-10-25 Annapurna SIL version 1.100 public release (current release)
2011-08-02 Annapurna SIL version 1.001 public release
2010-12-15 Annapurna SIL version 1.000 release under OFL

Support

As this font is distributed at no cost, we are unable to provide a commercial level of personal technical support. We will, however, try to resolve problems that are reported to us.

Please note that this font is intended for use by experienced computer users. Installing and using this font is not a trivial matter. The most effective technical support is usually provided by an experienced computer user who can personally sit down with you at your computer to troubleshoot the problem.

Before requesting technical support, please:

• Carefully read all the documentation provided with the font.
• Check out all the links on this web page, and read all the information and instructions the web pages contain.
• Review the list of Frequently Asked Questions on the general Font FAQ page to see if your question has already been answered.

If that fails to answer your question, or for more information, contact:

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1	Inclusion of basic Latin repertoire is provided as a convenience, e.g., for use in menus or for displaying markup in text files; these fonts are not intended for extensive Latin script use.

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