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Introduction

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.)

Font Samples

font sample * font information
Sample of Akshar Unicode at 36pt 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
Sample of Arial Unicode MS at 29pt 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
Sample of JanaKannada at 25pt JanaKannada    [ show all samples ]  (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
Sample of Kedage at 30pt Kedage    [ show all samples ]  (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
Sample of Mallige at 28pt Mallige    [ show all samples ]  (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
Sample of RaghuKannada at 24pt RaghuKannada    [ show all samples ]  (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
Sample of Sampige at 36pt Sampige    [ show all samples ]  (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
unusable font Saraswati5    [ show all samples ]  (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
Sample of Tunga at 28pt Tunga    [ show all samples ]  (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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