Hindi Fonts (देवनागरी फ़ॉन्ट्स) and Software based on Unicode

Web Name: Hindi Fonts (देवनागरी फ़ॉन्ट्स) and Software based on Unicode

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Smart Fonts include logical tables along with graphical data hinting instructions of letter forms. So 'smart fonts' can be termed as 'type software'.In 1991, Akhilesh Gupta started developing fonts and related software for processing DevaNagari text. We started selling these software fonts for personal computers from 1995. This software solution was for typesetting Hindi, Marathi, Nepali ( other languages written using DevaNagari) alongwith English (Roman letters).There wasn't real demand for our font/s for various reasons till 2005. Now some people want to have our smart font called 'Akhil HE', but few are willing to pay for it. We will be including support for other Indian scripts in our type software when we break even!Typesetting MultiLingual text of Hindi (DevaNagari) English (Latin)The 'Nagari' (aka 'Devanagari') script is used by millions for writing text of Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, Sanskrit and some dialects in Indiā, Nepāl, Māuritius, Fiji, Trinidād and Guyānā. English is also used by a lot of Indians. So we need computer types (fonts) and software that can allow, store and render (display) multilingual text.Unicode for DevaNagariBefore Unicode, Indians were using various encodings as there was no practical standard for processing Indic scripts in computers. This was one of the reasons why small setups like ours suffered.Though there was ISCII (Indian Script Code for Information Interchange) but no system vendor supported it! Then came Unicode; Indic code charts of Unicode were taken from ISCII-88!Most of the scripts of the Indian subcontinent largely follow similar rules for formation of syllables. Lots of characters of these scripts have one to one correspondence! So transliteration between various Indian scripts is not difficult! Code points for the characters of these scripts in Unicode (as per ISCII) are arranged according to a common plan.Enabling smart fonts properly in older computers should be a priority. Lots of the Indians live below poverty line and it is not feasible for most organisations in India to keep upgrading!Unicode compliant OpenType FontsModern operating systems which are Unicode based can directly let you enter text in most of the scripts. These operating systems (like Windows 7, 10) don't require additional software to enter and render text in most of the scripts. These operating systems have lots of fonts. Some of these fonts (generally those with only European characters) are of high quality. But fonts of complex scripts (particularly Indic ones) are just there to fulfill international requirements. So for Hindi etc., we need additional DevaNagari OpenType font/s of acceptable quality. Then only we can properly typeset Hindi text along with English directly even in plain/simple text editors like Notepad.We have designed and programmed a cool OpenType smart font - 'Akhil HE'. This type software contains a logical set of DevaNagari glyphs (we call 'Saral Nagari') along with ASCII characters (regular Roman alphabets etc.). It is an optimised, synchronised and professionally instructed (hinted) smart font. Its quality can be fully appreciated while typesetting multilingual text.There are lots of advantages of using this smart font.If you are an OS X user, remember OT fonts for Indic scripts are not properly supported in the OS X. So OS X cannot properly use our font 'Akhil HE' to render Nagari text.Our keyboard layout can be used in the OS X.Our Solutions for Win 2000 to Win 10In the past, we developed a package named 'Sugam-98' to enable easy entry of Unicode encoded Nagari in Windows 98.For Newer Windows OS like Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10 we have various versions of Sugam 2K.Components of Sugam-2K:Aforementioned OpenType font - Akhil HEA simple TrueType font - AkhilSuNāgarī (An Enhanced Keyboard Layout)'Akhil HE' is the main component of our software 'Sugam'. Other small components of Sugam are free for all of our customers. So buying 'Sugam' is same as buying 'Akhil HE'.Our first software was called LeKhaNi (Lekhni - Windows 95). It used to render and record text in a non standard encoding! Its last version was 2.1. Forthcoming Lekhani 3.0 will be a Unicode based multilingual editor. For your present text editing, use the Writer (component of LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice). Use our font 'Akhil HE' in the Writer (or any other Windows based Word-processor) for ultimate satisfaction.If you have a 'feed reader' added to your browser, click this button to add our news feed in it. Otherwise, simply bookmark this page.Why to tell others about this page?If you know some one who is using DevaNagari (script used for Hindi and/or some other SA languages) or learning it, please tell him/her about this page. S/he may not find this page by simply searching for the term 'Hindi Fonts' or 'Hindi Software'.

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Professional Unicode compliant OpenType font/s and software for writing text of Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Nepali along with English.

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