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The Kannada script is a Brahmi-derived writing system used for Kannada (the state language of Karnataka, India) and sometimes other languages such as Tulu. (There is an outline of a proposal to encode Tulu's own script in the Unicode Standard.)
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Akshar Unicode
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(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 |
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Arial Unicode MS
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(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 |
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JanaKannada
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(ROJanaKannada.TTF from JanaKannada.zip) Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site. Stats: Version 0.99.1 has 559 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Kannada OpenType Layout Tables: Kannada |
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Kedage
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(Kedage-n.TTF [regular], Kedage-b.TTF [bold], Kedage-i.TTF [italic], and Kedage-t.TTF [bold italic] from kanotf.zip) Source: Free download from the Brahmi Sourceforge project. Stats: Version 1.06 has 739 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Kannada OpenType Layout Tables: Kannada |
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Mallige
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(Malige-n.TTF [regular], Malige-b.TTF [bold], Malige-i.TTF [italic], and Malige-t.TTF [bold italic] from kanotf.zip) Source: Free download from the Brahmi Sourceforge project. Stats: Version 1.06 has 548 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Kannada OpenType Layout Tables: Kannada |
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RaghuKannada
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(RORaghuKannada_ship.ttf) Warning: There are issues using this font in Microsoft Word and WordPad. It seems to work OK in other editors including BabelPad, Notepad, and WorldPad. Source: Free download from IndiX: Indian Language support for the Linux Operating System. Stats: Version 1.00 has 559 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Kannada OpenType Layout Tables: Kannada |
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Sampige
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(Sampige.ttf) Source: Free download from OpenOffice.org in Kannada page. Click on the "Sampige - free opentype kannada font" link. Stats: Version (blank) has 388 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Kannada OpenType Layout Tables: Kannada |
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Saraswati5
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(SaraswatiNormal.ttf and SaraswatiBold.ttf) Note: This font does not have the OpenType tables necessary for Kannada. Source: Free download from Sun Microsystems (after registration). Stats: Version 1/17/03 has 1,803 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Latin |
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Tunga
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(Tunga.ttf) Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP. Stats: Version 1.06 has 401 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Kannada OpenType Layout Tables: Kannada |
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