Bengali Unicode Fonts (original) (raw)

Sample of Akaash at 34pt

Akaash [ show all samples ] (AkaashNormal.ttf)
Source: Free download from the Omicron Lab
Stats: Version 0.85 has 512 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Bangla at 34pt

Bangla [ show all samples ] (Bangla.ttf)
Source: Free download from Bharat Lipi.
Stats: Version 1.0 has 425 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of BN BIDISHA Opentype at 26pt

BN BIDISHA Opentype [ show all samples ] (BNBDOT0N.ttf)
Source: Free download from Deutsche Welle's Bengali page.
Stats: Version 4/9/2003 has 500 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Code2000 at 24pt

Code2000 [ show all samples ] (code2000.ttf)
Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage.
Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai

Sample of Ekushey Azad at 30pt

Ekushey Azad [ show all samples ] (Azad.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Ekushey Durga at 32pt

Ekushey Durga [ show all samples ] (Durga.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Ekushey Godhuli at 24pt

Ekushey Godhuli [ show all samples ] (Godhuli.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey project's file list.
Stats: Version 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin

Sample of Ekushey Lohit at 24pt

Ekushey Lohit [ show all samples ] (Lohit_ date.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey project's file list.
Stats: Version 1.01 has 480 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali

Sample of Ekushey Mohua at 30pt

Ekushey Mohua [ show all samples ] (Mohua_ date.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 1.0 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Ekushey Puja at 34pt

Ekushey Puja [ show all samples ] (Puja.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Ekushey Punarbhaba at 28pt

Ekushey Punarbhaba [ show all samples ] (Punarbhaba.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Ekushey Saraswatii at 32pt

Ekushey Saraswatii [ show all samples ] (Saraswatii.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Ekushey Sharifa at 32pt

Ekushey Sharifa [ show all samples ] (Sharifa.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Ekushey Sumit at 28pt

Ekushey Sumit [ show all samples ] (Sumit.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Free Serif at 30pt

Free Serif [ show all samples ] (FreeSerif.ttf, FreeSerifBold.ttf, FreeSerifItalic.ttf, and FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz)
Note: Bold and italic styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font.
Source: Free download from Savannah.
Stats: Version 1.52 has 3,914 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Malayalam, Tamil, Thaana, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Latin, Malayalam (traditional), Tamil

Sample of FreeSans at 30pt

FreeSans [ show all samples ] (FreeSans.ttf, FreeSansBold.ttf, FreeSansOblique.ttf, and FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz)
Note: Bold and oblique styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font.
Source: Free download from Savannah.
Stats: Version 1.76 has 2,734 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Armenian, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin

Sample of Hortuki at 25pt

Hortuki [ show all samples ] (HortukiNormal.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ankur Archive Project.
Stats: Version 0.1 has 610 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Jamrul at 23pt

Jamrul [ show all samples ] (JamrulNormal.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ankur Archive Project.
Stats: Version 0.1 has 611 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Likhan at 20pt

Likhan [ show all samples ] (LikhanNormal.ttf from TTF_LikhanNormal.zip)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.6 from Ekushey has 523 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Lohit Bengali at 34pt

Lohit Bengali [ show all samples ] (lohit_bn.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz)
Source: Free download from Ubuntu.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 478 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Mitra Mono at 26pt

Mitra Mono [ show all samples ] (mitra.ttf)
Source: Free download from the Omicron Lab
Stats: Version 0.70 has 324 glyphs and 1 kerning pair
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali (default, zz01)

Sample of Mukti at 24pt

Mukti [ show all samples ] (MuktiRegular.ttf and MuktiBold.ttf from freeunicodefonts.zip)
Source: Free download of download from the "ICT of Bangladesh" Yahoo Group (after you sign up)
Stats: Version 0.92 has 562 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Mukti Narrow at 24pt

Mukti Narrow [ show all samples ] (muktinarrow.ttf)
Source: Free download from the Omicron Lab
Stats: Version 0.95 March 10, 2004 has 599 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of RaghuBengali at 28pt

RaghuBengali [ show all samples ] (RVRaghuBengali_ship.ttf)
Source: Free download from IndiX: Indian Language support for the Linux Operating System.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 605 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of Rupali at 30pt

Rupali [ show all samples ] (Rupali_26_6_05.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 1.04 / 1.00 U 4.1.0 has 603 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali, Latin

Sample of SamyakSans at 28pt

SamyakSans [ show all samples ] (SamyakSans.ttf)
Source: Free download from gnowledge.org.
Stats: Version 1.0 has 2,045 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil

unusable font

Saraswati5 [ show all samples ] (SaraswatiNormal.ttf and SaraswatiBold.ttf)
Note: This font does not have the OpenType tables necessary for Bengali.
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 SolaimanLipi at 30pt

SolaimanLipi [ show all samples ] (SolaimanLipi_04_07_05.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 1.04 / 1.0 Thu June 13 17:00:00 2005 has 581 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali, Latin

Sample of SutonnyBanglaOMJ at 32pt

SutonnyBanglaOMJ [ show all samples ] (SutonnyBanglaOMJ.ttf)
Source: Free download from BBC Bengali.
Stats: Version 1 has 549 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of SutonnyOMJ at 34pt

SutonnyOMJ [ show all samples ] (SutonnyOMJ.ttf)
Source: see private notes for source information
Stats: Version 0.22 has 1,274 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali

Sample of UniBangla at 26pt

UniBangla [ show all samples ] (UniBangla V1.0.ttf)
Source: Free download from BanglaLinux (follow uniBangla-font link)
Stats: Version 1.0 has 329 glyphs and 1,479 kerning pairs
Support: Bengali
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali (default, zz01)

Sample of Vrinda at 36pt

Vrinda [ show all samples ] (Vrinda.ttf)
Source: Supplied with Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2).
Stats: Version 1.03 has 814 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali