10 Indic scripts display font family by Ek Type

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Hello all, 

Here is an upcoming 10 Indic scripts display font family by Ek Type. These are initial sketches. I will post the rest of the scripts and more characters soon. 

Sarang Kulkarni 

Co-founder / Type designer

www.ektype.in 

[Pathum Egodawatta]

Wow! cant wait to see more :D

[Erin McLaughlin]

What a HUGE undertaking! Amazing!! Cheers to everyone involved!!!

[Ambarisha Darbha]

Looks Amazing. Waiting to see remaining scripts also..

[Pooja Saxena]

This is very exciting, Sarang!

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Thanks, Pathum, Pooja, Erin and Ambarisha.

We have updated more basic characters and working on matching across script.  

Regards

Sarang Kulkarni 

[ken p]

I don't see Gujarati /Gujanagari fonts.

India also  needs standard Roman keyboard with built in transliteration into all languages.

Just type in one standard Roman script and let converters do the job by selecting a language.

Due to lack of Standard Roman keyboard,Lots of young people don't write correct readable Indian languages in Roman script and they need to be educated.

अ आ इ ई उ ऊ ए ऐ ऍ ओ औ ऑ अं अः

અ આ ઇ ઈ ઉ ઊ એ ઐ ઍ ઓ ઔ ઑ અં અઃ

a ā  i ī u ū e  ă ai  o au ŏ am/an a:

ka kha ga gha 

cha  chha ja  za  

ṭa ṭha ḍa ḍha ṇa
ta tha da dha na
pa fa ba bha ma
ya ra la va
sha sa ṣa 

ha ḽa xa gna

Needed key strokes for new characters:

aa/ā ,  ii/ī , uu/ū , ae/ă  aw/ŏ  aH/a:

ae/ă/cat ,aw/ŏ/law  a/Schwa

https://iastphoneticenglishalphabet.wordpress.com/

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Hi all,

Here is the update for this week.

Regards

Sarang

[Dave Crossland]

Thank you Sarang :) What actually did you work on in the last week?

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Dave

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Gurmukhi

This week was focused on the basic vowels and consonants. 

The widths and weight distribution of characters ਕ, ਰ and  ਦ was also altered as per the script proportions.

 Also, an alternate approach was attempted for the end flick of ਕ. 

Kannada

Reworked on root characters:

ಅ ಈ ಊ ೠ ಐ

ಕ ಖ ಗ 

ಚ ಛ ಞ

ಟ ಠ ಢ ಣ

ತ ಥ ನ ಮ

ರ ಲ ಳ ಶ

Designed other glyphs:

ಇ ಉ ಋ ಎ ಏ ಒ ಓ ಔ

ಙ ಜ ಝ

ಡ ದ ಧ

ಬ ಭ ಯ ವ ಸ ಹ

Malayalam

1. Changed terminals of characters Like in ക ഗ ന ച ര

2. Refined stem widths of characters, and loops

3. Drew remaining basic characters.

4. Started coding.

Bangla

Worked on more characters form the basic character set.

Latin

Checking the font is paragraphs and working on structural aspect.

Sarang 

On Monday, August 10, 2015 at 10:22:46 PM UTC+5:30, Dave Crossland wrote:

Thank you Sarang :) What actually did you work on in the last week?

On 10 August 2015 at 12:46, Sarang Kulkarni <1sarang...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

Here is the update for this week.

Regards

Sarang

On Monday, August 3, 2015 at 10:11:22 PM UTC+5:30, Sarang Kulkarni wrote:

Thanks, Pathum, Pooja, Erin and Ambarisha.

We have updated more basic characters and working on matching across script.  

Regards

Sarang Kulkarni 

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 2:34:31 PM UTC+5:30, Sarang Kulkarni wrote:

Hello all, 

Here is an upcoming 10 Indic scripts display font family by Ek Type. These are initial sketches. I will post the rest of the scripts and more characters soon. 

Sarang Kulkarni 

Co-founder / Type designer

www.ektype.in 

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Cheers
Dave

[Dave Crossland]

Awesome :)

[Ambarisha Darbha]

Hi Sarang,

I could able to see total 6 scripts in your samples. What are the remaining four scripts? I'm curious to see their samples also.

Regards,

Appaji Ambarisha D

On Thursday, 13 August 2015 09:50:08 UTC+5:30, Dave Crossland wrote:

Awesome :)

[Erin McLaughlin]

Hi Sarang!

Beautiful forms! But I wonder if the Malayalam and Tamil are too large? You might want to compare a similar sentence in each script.

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Thanks Erin, We are working on this. 

Regards

Sarang 

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 2:34:31 PM UTC+5:30, Sarang Kulkarni wrote:

[Dave Crossland]

What is the weekly update, Sarang? :) 

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Hi,

Untitled Malayalam

- Reworked on loops, changed them from petal shaped to round.

- Changed overshoots of few characters, such as തേര.

- Refined curves of ഒഉഇളമജഋ.

- Worked on matras.

- Worked on numbers, numeric marks and fractions.

- Worked on chillu characters.

- Started constructing horizontal conjuncts.

- Reduced overall character height to match with Latin.

- Worked on opentype coding. 

Untitled Bangla

- Overall weight was reduced.

- Characters with triangular base (বকখঘঝথধফমযরষ)were redrawn

- অ ত were changed to be more consistent with other circular characters

- apart from া প গ ণ, the dip in the shirorekha/matra has been removed

- this week will work on the numbers and more conjuncts

Untitled Kannada

- Kannada character set of vowels + consonants + numbers completed

- Weight added to characters with more intra-letter spacing to make them look the same weight as the complex characters

- X-height of all characters reduced to match that of latin and other languages

- All matras completed

Untitled Tamil

- worked on making the consonants better and drawing vowels

- reduced x-height to match better with latin

- will work further on fine tuning the basic characters this week

Untitled Gurmukhi 

- This week the root characters were given more volume and curves were refined. 

- The more complex characters like ਡ,ਢ,ਭ and ਲ were also designed. 

- Worked on matras and numerals.
- Started spacing and kerning of characters.

Will put up initial updates for odia, gujarati by next week

Regards

Sarang 

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 2:34:31 PM UTC+5:30, Sarang Kulkarni wrote:

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Hi,

Here are the updates:

Untitled Kannada

Reworked on basic characters and numbers

Checked weight consistensy throughout font

Kannada looks slightly bigger at 60pts compared to Latin

Todays agenda:

Fix Kannada weight and height to match that of Latin 

Rework on numbers.

Untitled Gurmukhi

The past week was devoted to finishing the basic glyph set of Gurmukhi including the Matras and the Numbers. The terminals, knots and loops were refined to give consistency and flow to the font. The characters were spaced to get the proper script texture and overall grey.The curves were further enhanced and refined.

Untitled Latin

1. Fixing the weights of all the diagonals, realised I need to add traps – V W M N Y v w y 4

2. New glyphs – !?.,;: () (which required me to rethink the tittle of i and j)

3. New glyphs – grave, acute, dieresis, dotaccent, oe

4. I've worked on the numbers and diacritics.

Untitled Devanagari

- Finished basic vowels and consonants.

- Working on numerals and conjuncts

- Numerals and matras by next week. 

Untitled Bangla

- Changed character widths in comparison to other characters.

- Made ধ প wider, condensed ছ,made ল wider, modified 

- Changed the knot of ম to a loop, increased width

- Changed the angles of the lower diagonal of ফ, য and ষ to mach better with ব ক etc

- Made counter of অ ড উ bigger, redrew গ

- Changed conjuncts as per  the changes made during the last 2 weeks.

Untitled Malayalam

-Reworked on lower parts of these characters: ഇഉളൠ

-Reworked on numbers ൪൯.  

-Tried a different option- the loop that continues to be a straight line,

   instead of a curve as done in chillu letters.

-Reworked on chillu Ka.

-Made these characters wide: പഫഥടഴ

-Fine tuned curves of the characters.

-Working on conjuncts.

Untitled Tamil

• -Overall resizing of the font
• -Increasing stroke contrast(vertical-horizontal thickness)
• -Reigning in the comparative character widths
• -Incremental improvements in the construction of curves
• -Making the petal shaped counters on the eyes distinctly round
• -Reducing the cursive design to more neutral palette
• -Experimenting with tails on characters such as Ta, Rra and Na

Regards

Sarang 

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 2:34:31 PM UTC+5:30, Sarang Kulkarni wrote:

[Dave Crossland]

Thank you Sarang! :) This is all good stuff

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Hi,

Here are this week updates. 

Untitled Tamil 

-Addition of vowels and ekaram, eekaram and aikaram

-Characters furbished with better curves

-Better scaling at intersections(of the eye and the lacrymal loops on the Nna and Nnna) to avoid unnecessary inkblots

-More 'squarish' terminals

-A controlled letterfit and better rhythm across the script

-Measured 'beak sizes'

-Exploration w.r.t. tails(although the existing tail structure has been chosen as the best alternate)

Untitled Bangla

-Based on feedback and comparison with other scripts

made characters less geometric

-Made the diagonal of the triangular characters (বকরখথঘধফযষ) more curvy.

- Changed the balance and terminals of অ ড উ তভ

- Designed matras and numbers

Untitled Malayalam

Changes in structure:

-Redesigned character ജ. Changed its lower part completely, and extended it in the descender.

-Redesigned lower part of ൠ. Instead of two dots inside, made a ന like structure.

-Redesigned conjunct ങ്ങ. Instead of അ like structure (left side part), made it a loop- as in ത.

-Reworked on lower parts of ഉ ഇ ള.

Changes in widths:

-Made these characters ഗനധഡസണരഛവറ slightly condensed, for a better gray. 

-Made all the loops slightly condensed.

-Started adopting all these structural and width changes in horizontal conjuncts.

Untitled Gurmukhi

-Basic character set including vowels, consonants and numbers was completed.

-This week will be dedicated to fixing the matras and the half characters.

-The curves and terminals of the characters were refined.

Untitled Oriya

-Worked on deciding the glyph set and coding the font.

Untitled Telugu

-Added more glyphs to the glyph set

-Normalised the widths and proportions

-Increased stroke contrast

Untitled Devanagari

- Basic vowel consonants are complete.

- Working on numerals.

- Trying complex conjuncts.

Regards

Sarang   

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 2:34:31 PM UTC+5:30, Sarang Kulkarni wrote:

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Hi,

Untitled Tamil

• A completion of the entire basic character set except the symbols Om and Shree.

• A fairly thorough exploration to make certain characters contemporary and simple: ex vowel I, the numbers eight and two, the 'as above symbol'.

• Far bit of basic spacing among characters.

• Polishing curves and regularising terminals.

• Basic intra-character space distribution

Untitled Gurmukhi

• Refined the matras and curves of other characters.

• Worked on making alternate for the matras.

• Added new glyphs with combinations of matras and other marks. 

• Coded the files and working on Kerning and writing the positioning rules.

Untitled Telugu

• Added more glyphs to the glyph set

• Normalised the widths and proportions

Untitled Malayalam

• Made the loops of അ ര bigger.

• Changed the structure of എ ഏ യ ഇ ഉ ജ ൫

• Tried to make better inter-character spacing in സ ഡ ഢ ണ ഭ

• Made പ ച ല ഘ wider.

• Made ള അ ആ slightly condensed.

• Reworked on ട ൠ ാ ീ ൃ േ. 

• Adopted all these structural and width changes in horizontal conjuncts.

• Started working on vertical conjuncts.

Untitled Devanagari

• Finished all the basic characters (Vowel and consonants) 

• Completed 20 odd conjuncts (Verticals and horizontals)

• Added 9 basic matras 

Untitled Kannada

• In the process of completing the substitution glyphs and making a functional font

• Increased the weight of numbers and certain other consonants

• Paragraph testing of font will commence after glyphs has been finished

Untitled Odia

• Started working on basic characters on font lab.

• Making few complex characters to define the stroke widths. 

Regards

Sarang 

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 2:34:31 PM UTC+5:30, Sarang Kulkarni wrote:

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Hi,

Here are the updates: 

Kannada updates:

Worked on all the characters with loops. Made all the loops consistent. 

Tried various options for the first half of ಪ. 

Reworked on ಳ ಷ ಹ ಞ ಙ ಘ

Reworked on characters contrast.

Refined curves of characters

Tamil updates:

The updates to the font for this week include:

• Addition of ikarams to the glyphsset.
• The design of the different ukarams have been explored and frozen upon.
• Some more structural tweaks to the vowel I and consonants Rra and Ha
• Reining in the widths of the numerals and the consonants such as the Ya and Sha.
• Arriving upon a suitable terminal language and its consistency across tamil and other scripts as well.

Gujarati Updates:

1. Reduced width of ra, ta, tha, sa

2. Increased width of cha, kha, bha

3. Refined Ksha, ha, la

4. Worked on terminals to match with latin

Gurmukhi Updates: 

- modified the contrast to match other scripts.

- worked on the terminals and flares to add more consistency within the script and across different scripts. 

- fixed the numerals 

- testing the codes 

Odia Updates:

- experimented with different versions of the umbrella

- working on the root characters 

- defining the joineries, loops and terminals 

- working on character widths and proportions 

Malayalam Update:

Fine tuned the curves of few characters.

Decreased the character contrast, to match with Latin.

Reworked on the character terminals. Made them slightly squarish.

Working on vertical conjuncts.

Devanagari Updates: 

- Worked on more than 100 conjuncts. 

- Checking the terminals

- Working on consistency between basic characters and vertical conjuncts. 

- Testing basic paragraph in 18 and 24 point sizes. 

Regards

Sarang 

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 2:34:31 PM UTC+5:30, Sarang Kulkarni wrote:

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Hi,

Here are the last week updates. 

Malayalam update:

Reworked on terminals of all the characters. 
Made the aperture slightly larger.
Tried various options for conjuncts- Pa+Pa, Ka+Ka. 
Designed extra matras. 
Working on kerning. 

Latin update:

Completed the basic character set- lowercase, uppercase characters and numbers.
Started working on diacritics and punctuations. 

Gujarati Updates

1. Reduced width of Gha, Da

2. Worked on terminals 

3. Refined Sa, Laa, Ja

4. Analysed some characters with comparative chart and made changes

Kannada Updates:

Finishing glyph set of Kannada and substitution glyphs

Reworking weight issues on basic characters.

Gurmukhi Updates:

1. Analysed the comparative widths of the characters and made slight reformations accordingly.

2. Fixed the terminals and loops in accordance with Latin and the overall visual design language of the font family.

3. Worked on positioning of Matras and Half Characters.

4. Refined the numbers 6,8 and 9

5. Designed glyphs for Ukar Matras with Half Characters.

6. Worked on refining the contrast and consistency of the stroke weight among different characters.

Bangla Updates:

- Have completed first round of all conjuncts.

would like to further reduce the weight of most of them.

- Have opened up the apertures of characters like ণলনটঢ 

- Have slightly increased widths of characters to match with other scripts

- The triangular characters are still under debate. I am unsure if the diagonals should be curved or straight. 

This decisions will eventually affect the conjuncts as well.

Devanagari Updates: 

-Working on multiple conjuncts

-Started working on matras

Regards

Sarang Kulkarni

(Ek Type) 

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 2:34:31 PM UTC+5:30, Sarang Kulkarni wrote:

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Updates:

Gujarati Updates

Completed root characters and working on remaining characters.

Telugu Updates

Making design updated based on new form requirements.

Devanagari Updates

Working on stroke consistency.

Managed the widths of all the basic characters again. 

Checking the spacing in words and lines.

Kannada Updates:

Changed structure and terminals of numbers

Worked on weight distribution

Worked on Numbers - Structure and weight

Odia Updates

- tried spur less approach with characters ga, gha, pa, pha, sa, tta and nna

- modified divisions of white space inside the characters 

- worked on comparative widths of the characters with respect to 'ta'

- refined the curves and flow of weight

- worked on uniformity of stroke thickness across the characters 

Gurmukhi Updates

- worked on the curves and weight contrast 

- refined structures to add uniformity 

Malayalam Updates:

Last week, I had made quite a few changes in basic characters. 

So started applying those changes in conjuncts.

Worked on Kerning.

Latin Update:

Worked on ligatures, diacritics, punctuation marks, mathematical signs, fractions & currency symbols.

Regards

Sarang 

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 2:34:31 PM UTC+5:30, Sarang Kulkarni wrote:

[Sarang Kulkarni]

HI,

Here are the updates. 

Malayalam updates:

Finished the Malayalam glyphset.

Finished kerning and opentype coding as well.

Latin updates:

Finished the Latin glyphset.

Started working on kerning.

Gujarati Updates

 

1. Worked on Matras

2. Refined Nna, Bha, Pa

3. Reduced width of Ddha, Ksha

4. Worked on terminals

Gurmukhi Updates

Finished Glyphset.

Finished open type coding as well. 

Oriya Updates

- Refined basic characters and spacing

- Fixed the Matras and basic positioning

- Added numerals

- Started designing conjuncts and fixing stroke weight for the same

Devanagari Updates

Finished all the characters.

Working on Matras.

Testing paragraphs.

Kannada Updates

Fixing curves of all characters and reviewing glyphset

Checking kerning and spacing

Finishing of the font remains

Bangla Updates

Finished character set.

Testing matras

- Finalising font name in 2 days. 

Regards

Sarang Kulkarni

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 2:34:31 PM UTC+5:30, Sarang Kulkarni wrote:

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Hi,

We have finalise the names for all our scripts.

The series is called Baloo.

Baloo is an affable display typeface by Ektype, designed in 9 Indic scripts along with Latin. 

Baloo is a distinctive heavy spurless design with a subtle tinge of playfulness and all the bare necessities of type. Dancing through spooky tales and funny jokes Baloo infuses life everywhere it goes. Snuggling Latin, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu under a single weight cloak, the typeface focuses on giving equal justice to every act of this gentle jungle affair to secure single and multi-script use.

Gujarati - Baloo Bhai 

Tamil - Baloo Thambi 

Kannada - Baloo Thamma 

Malayalam - Baloo Anniya

Bengali- Baloo Da 

Odia - Baloo Bhaina 

Gurmukhi - Baloo Paaji

Devanagari - Baloo

Telugu- Baloo Tammudu  

Malayalam - Baloo Anniya
Worked on minor curve fixing. 
Font is now almost ready to be compiled with Latin.

Baloo Latin updates-
Completed Latin 3 glyphset last week. 

Started working on Latin 4 glyphset. 

Tomorrow the Latin 4 will be ready. 

Odia - Baloo Bhaina

- Worked on numerals and Matras

- Fixed the curves and comparative widths of the characters

- Segregated conjuncts in groups based on complexity and structures 

- Worked on defining proportions and stroke weights for conjuncts

- Planning alternate matras for characters with different stroke weights

Gurmukhi - Baloo Paaji

- Fixed the metrics, kerning and positioning

- Testing the codes

- Started working on solving the technical issues that were spotted during the testing phase.

Devanagari - Baloo

- Completed all the glyph set.

- Working on kerning.

- Will start GPOS tomorrow.

Bengali- Baloo Da 

- Working on complex conjuncts. 

- Wil start spacing and kerning soon.

Telugu- Baloo Tammudu  

- Fixing the basic character set.

- Working on weight matching with Latin.

Tamil - Baloo Thambi 

- Font is now almost ready to be compiled with Latin.

Kannada - Baloo Thamma 

- Fixing small details.

Regards

Sarang Kulkarni 

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 2:34:31 PM UTC+5:30, Sarang Kulkarni wrote:

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Hi,

Here are 2 weeks updates.

5 (Malayalam - Baloo Anniya, Tamil - Baloo Thambi, Gurmukhi - Baloo Paaji, 

and Bengali- Baloo Da along with Latin) scripts are done and up on github.

As for the the rest of them

Kannada - Baloo Thamma 

Character design and opentype codes are done. Will relook at the kerning,

do a consistency check and testing this week.

Odia - Baloo Bhaina 

The glyph set is almost done but will relook at the conjuncts and numerals this week.

Need to work on spacing as well.

Gujarati - Baloo Bhai 

Characters and conjuncts are done, need to work on the different matra combinations,

check spacing and do the positioning

Telugu- Baloo Tammudu  

Basic characters are done, working on completing the rest of the glyph set

Regards

Sarang 

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 2:34:31 PM UTC+5:30, Sarang Kulkarni wrote:

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Hi,

Updates for this week-

As for the the rest of them

Kannada - Baloo Thamma

Doing final testing, everything else is done.

Odia - Baloo Bhaina 

Almost done, fixing few glitches in the opentype code.

Gujarati - Baloo Bhai 

Need to work on ikar matras and kerning.

Telugu- Baloo Tammudu  

Still working on completing the glyph set

Devanagari - Baloo 

Done with kerning, finding codes and later font testing. 

Regards

Sarang Kulkarni

[Sarang Kulkarni]

Hi,

All the scripts are up on Git except Telugu.

We are working on spacing and matra placement. We are targeting to complete the font within a week.

Sarang 

[Dave Crossland]

Awesome news! Thanks Sarang!

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Dave

[Dave Crossland]

Hi

I took some time to carefully review everything as best I can.

Where are the testing docs, for spacing, kerning, conjuncts, etc?

The currency glyphs are sweet :) 

Are all vernacular numerals included?

I'm not sure about the latin numeral '4' design - lacking a bar extending through the stem on the right is odd, and looks like it is being clipped. 

The cap schwa - Ə - must have the lowercase form, it isn't the same as Ǝ which is African.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C6%8F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C6%8E

The spacing of Baloo Da latin is wider than all the others - is this intended?

The spacing of Baloo Paaji latin punctuation is slightly wider than all the others, less than Da - is this intended?

At 13px, 14px, 15px and 16px on Win10 Chrome 47, the tittles on the i and j are messed up, and need a ttfautohint controls file to fix them. http://goo.gl/d3Sof9

Baloo Da doesn't have ৷ (0x09F7)? - http://goo.gl/vcVHsc

Baloo Tammudu has a collision with these 2 conjuncts, క్షృ and క్షౄ - http://goo.gl/NTJEo4

The vertical metrics are set the same across the family, to 1130/-532, and this causes for example Tammudu to get quite dense, like http://goo.gl/vwDQr1

The bbox is actually (very) different for each font, so I think it might be better to either set the v metrics to the ymax/ymin of each font by itself, which I think will mean that each font might not exactly align on the baseline with the others, but it will not have any clipping itself; or, set them to the ymax/ymin of the whole set, a whopping 1185/-1041 :) 

Currently:

$ fontbakery-fix-vertical-metrics.py bal*/*ttf ;

Parameter              Baloo-Regular.ttf    BalooBhai-Regular.ttf    BalooBhaina-Regular.ttf    BalooChettan-Regular.ttf    BalooDa-Regular.ttf    BalooPaaji-Regular.ttf    BalooTamma-Regular.ttf    BalooTammudu-Regular.ttf    BalooThambi-Regular.ttf    Balthazar-Regular.ttf    

ymax                   1050                 1050                     1185                       1050                        1095                   1157                      1050                      1177                        1050                       796                      

hhea.ascent            1130                 1130                     1130                       1130                        1130                   1130                      1130                      1130                        1130                       796                      

OS/2.sTypoAscender     1130                 1130                     1130                       1130                        1130                   1130                      1130                      1130                        1130                       796                      

OS/2.usWinAscent       1130                 1130                     1130                       1130                        1130                   1130                      1130                      1130                        1130                       796                      

ymin                   -524                 -544                     -827                       -390                        -589                   -604                      -673                      -1041                       -486                       -222                     

hhea.descent           -532                 -532                     -532                       -532                        -532                   -532                      -532                      -532                        -532                       -222                     

OS/2.sTypoDescender    -532                 -532                     -532                       -532                        -532                   -532                      -532                      -532                        -532                       -222                     

OS/2.usWinDescent      532                  532                      532                        532                         532                    532                       532                       532                         532                        222                      

hhea.lineGap           0                    0                        0                          0                           0                      0                         0                         0                           0                          0                        

OS/2.sTypoLineGap      0                    0                        0                          0                           0                      0                         0                         0                           0                          0                        

hhea total             1662                 1662                     1662                       1662                        1662                   1662                      1662                      1662                        1662                       1018                     

typo total             1662                 1662                     1662                       1662                        1662                   1662                      1662                      1662                        1662                       1018                     

win total              1662                 1662                     1662                       1662                        1662                   1662                      1662                      1662                        1662                       1018                     

UPM:Heights            1000:1574            1000:1594                1000:2012                  1000:1440                   1000:1684              1000:1761                 1000:1723                 1000:2218                   1000:1536                  1000:1018                

UPM:Heights %          157 %                159 %                    201 %                      144 %                       168 %                  176 %                     172 %                     221 %                       153 %                      101 %            

Cheers,

Dave

[Dave Crossland]

On 27 January 2016 at 16:29, Dave Crossland <da...@lab6.com> wrote:

Baloo Da doesn't have ৷ (0x09F7)? - http://goo.gl/vcVHsc

I also see safari and firefox/chrome rendering these words differently:

গিয়ে

নাসিকা

[Dave Crossland]

On 28 January 2016 at 10:02, Dave Crossland <da...@lab6.com> wrote:

On 27 January 2016 at 16:29, Dave Crossland <da...@lab6.com> wrote:

Baloo Da doesn't have ৷ (0x09F7)? - http://goo.gl/vcVHsc

On Firefox, Da and Paaji don't show this, although perhaps the text is misencoded and it should be 0x0964...

Still, in chrome/safari these । are correctly rendered...

 

I also see safari and firefox/chrome rendering these words differently:

গিয়ে

নাসিকা

Also in Tammudu, this is fine in Firefox and Chrome, but looks wrong in Safari,

సంస్కృత

Might require AAT?

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Cheers
Dave

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Cheers
Dave

[Zar]

Hi Dave and Sarang,

Is itn't odd to have a font with a .otf extension that in place of having 'CFF ', it has 'glyf', 'local', 'cvt '…? in other words, it is a TTF font with a OTF extension.

Is that on purpose?

Best,

Nicolás

[Dave Crossland]

Hi

Where did you get this file?

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Cheers
Dave

[Zar]

From here:

https://github.com/girish-dalvi/Baloo/releases 

[Dave Crossland]

Oh I see. I filed an issue to address this, https://github.com/girish-dalvi/Baloo/issues/6

[Zar]

I found that the building instruction says:

makeotf -f Baloo.ttf -o Baloo.otf -r -S -rev

But as Miguel Sousa says: “makeOTF can't convert between font formats. There's no FDK tool that you can use for that.”

Best,

Nicolás