fonts-aakar

Aakar Gujarati font. This font was developed as part of Utkarsh Gujarati Operating System.

Sample Text

Please do note that this are images and not actual text rendering.

Size 10

Size 50

Size 100

How to install ?

Linux (using package)

In Debian and derivative distributions like Ubuntu, simply use:

sudo apt-get install fonts-aakar

Linux (manual installation)

Place font file to /usr/share/fonts folder and run,

fc-cache -v

in terminal.

Mac

curl -Lo /Library/Fonts/aakar-medium.ttf https://github.com/kartikm/fonts-aakar/releases/download/0.2/aakar-medium.ttf

Windows

TODO

Web Fonts

[Sfntly] (https://code.google.com/p/sfntly/) is required for creating web fonts. Once installed, following commands can be used.

Creating .woff

java -jar /path/to/sfnttool.jar -w aakar-medium.ttf Aakar-Medium.woff

Creating .eot

java -jar /path/to/sfnttool.jar -e -x aakar-medium.ttf Aakar-Medium.eot

Using it in your work

Declare the CSS rule. See code snippet below. You can copy and paste it in your code as well.

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Aakar';
    src: url('https://github.com/kartikm/fonts-aakar/releases/download/0.2/Aakar-Medium.eot');
    src: local('Aakar'),
         url('https://github.com/kartikm/fonts-aakar/releases/download/0.2/Aakar-Medium.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('https://github.com/kartikm/fonts-aakar/releases/download/0.2/Aakar-Medium.woff') format('woff'),
         url('https://github.com/kartikm/fonts-aakar/releases/download/0.2/aakar-medium.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

.aakar {
  font-family:'Aakar';
}

Apply the style to your content. Below is part of HTML page to illustrate it. Ofcourse once a CSS rule has been declared there are various ways to apply it to your content. This one is just one way to do it.

<p class="aakar">ભારત</p>

Technical Details

• No. of Glyphs : 375 glyphs

Known Issues

See [pending issues] (https://github.com/kartikm/fonts-aakar/issues)

Testing

We are always looking for volunteers to test this fonts on various platforms and target machines. Let's us know if you find something which is not properly rendered by filling an issue here.

Contributors

• Ankur Patel
• Ankit Patel
• Atit Patel
• Bhavin Shah
• Kartik Mistry
• Khushbu Shah
• Sweta Kothari

You can also contribute to this project as it is a opensource project and we are eagerly awaiting your pull-requests. Start forking us.

LICENSE

GPL-2+

Copyright: 2004-2007, MagNet Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai, India.

The aakar font is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. aakar is developed based on the glyphs of Padma, which in turn is based on Akruti.

See LICENSE file for full license text.