Once the actual font (.ttf) font is available, right-click and choose Install to install it in the Fonts folder. Another site that offers a limited selection of free retro fonts is FontDiner. Click on the opening page to get into the site, then click on the Free Silverware button on the dine-o-matic. I am trying to type in Sanskrit and English on Word 2007 under Windows 10. The font I have chosen in Sanskrit 2003. I have also tried Kokila.
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Applies to: Windows 10
When you upgrade from the Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 operating system to Windows 10, certain fonts are no longer available by default post-upgrade. To reduce the operating system footprint, improve performance, and optimize disk space usage, we moved many of the fonts that were previously shipped with prior versions of Windows to the optional features of Windows 10. If you install a fresh instance of Windows 10, or upgrade an older version of Windows to Windows 10, these optional features are not enabled by default. As a result, these fonts appear to be missing from the system.
If you have documents created using the missing fonts, these documents might display differently on Windows 10.
For example, if you have an English (or French, German, or Spanish) version of Windows 10 installed, you might notice that fonts such as the following are appear to be missing:
Gautami
Meiryo
Narkism/Batang
BatangChe
Dotum
DotumChe
Gulim
GulimChe
Gungsuh
GungsuhChe
If you want to use these fonts, you can enable the optional feature to add these back to your system. Be aware that this is a permanent change in behavior for Windows 10, and it will remain this way in future releases.
Installing language-associated features via language settings:
If you want to use the fonts from the optional feature and you know that you will want to view Web pages, edit documents, or use apps in the language associated with that feature, add that language into your user profile. You do this the Settings app.
For example, here are the steps to install the fonts associated with the Hebrew language:
Click Start > Settings.
In Settings, click Time & language, and then click Region & language.
If Hebrew is not included in the list of languages, click the plus sign (+) to add a language.
Find Hebrew, and then click it to add it to your language list.
Once you have added Hebrew to your language list, then the optional Hebrew font feature and other optional features for Hebrew language support are installed. This should only take a few minutes.
Note: The optional features are installed by Windows Update. This means you need to be online for the Windows Update service to work.
Install optional fonts manually without changing language settings:
If you want to use fonts in an optional feature but don't need to search web pages, edit documents, or use apps in the associated language, you can install the optional font features manually without changing your language settings.
For example, here are the steps to install the fonts associated with the Hebrew language without adding the Hebrew language itself to your language preferences:
Click Start > Settings.
In Settings, click Apps, click Apps & features, and then click Manage optional features.
If you don't see Hebrew Supplemental Fonts in the list of installed features, click the plus sign (+) to add a feature.
Select Hebrew Supplemental Fonts in the list, and then click Install.
Note: The optional features are installed by Windows Update. You need to be online for the Windows Update service to work.
Fonts included in optional font features
Here is a comprehensive list of the font families in each of the optional features. Some font families might include multiple fonts for different weights and styles.
Arabic Script Supplemental Fonts: Aldhabi, Andalus, Arabic Typesetting, Microsoft Uighur, Sakkal Majalla, Simplified Arabic, Traditional Arabic, Urdu Typesetting
Notes | Recommended Fonts | Keyboard Layouts | Mac vs. PC vs. Linux Rendering Issues | Credits
Notes
While all of the fonts found on the Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Nepali) page technically support the display of Unicode Sanskrit documents, the SALRC has created this list of fonts and input methods especially recommended for Sanskrit. A few issues arise in Sanskrit typography that are not present in other Devanagari-based languages:
Specialized ligatures: Sanskrit texts feature a much larger set of conjunct consonants or 'ligatures' than modern vernaculars. Moreover, while it is often acceptable in vernacular typesetting to use 'half-consonant' forms or 'halants' (called 'viramas' in Sanskrit) to create these ligatures, Sanskrit texts have traditionally used more complex representations. The fonts on this page provide a broader support of complex ligatures than other Devanagari Unicode fonts.
Vedic Accents and Characters: While a number of proposals are currently in the works, the Devanagari tables of the Unicode Standard 4.1 does not provide code points for most Vedic accent marks and other characters. only Udatta (Ux0951) and Anudatta (Ux0952) accents are included. Among the Unicode fonts we recommend, the 'Sanskrit 2003' font does include Vedic symbols and characters by making use of the 'Private Use Area' of the Unicode Standard. Presuming that conversion utilities will be created for this font should the Unicode Consortium approve a Vedic Accents code point table, we recommend this font be used to represent Vedic accents. Visit Omkarananda Ashram, TDIL, or Everson Typography's repository for the latest updates regarding the status of Vedic Unicode proposals.
Sanskrit in Other Scripts: Sanskrit may also be represented in archaic scripts. Kharoshthi has been included in the latest version of the Unicode Standard (4.1); Brahmi, Grantha, Siddham, and other scripts are not yet supported, but proposals are in the 'pipeline'.
Recommended Fonts
The SALRC recommends the following Devanagari fonts for use in Sanskrit language pedagogy and Internet applications: [Click on font names or samples for specific information and text samples for each font.]
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AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3 (AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3.ttf)
Free download from the Database of Indian Scriptures project at GICAS (Grammatological Informatics based on Corpora of Asian Scripts), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Arial Unicode MS (arialuni.ttf)
A commercial font available as part of Microsoft's Office 2000/XP, FrontPage 2000, and Publisher 2002. Note: To access this font, the 'International Support' feature of MS Office/FrontPage/Publisher must be installed. See Microsoft support for more details.
CDAC-GISTSurekh (CDACSRNT.TTF and CDACSRBT.TTF [bold])
Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.
CDAC-GISTYogesh (CDACYGNT.TTF [normal], CDACYGBT.TTF [bold], and CDACYGIT.TTF [italic])
Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.
JanaSanskrit (RJJanaSanskrit.TTF)
Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.
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Kalimati (Kalimati.ttf)
Free download from Nepali-language book archive Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya.
Mangal (mangal.ttf)
Commercial font included with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000, as a part of 'Supplemental Language Support.' For installation details, click on 'How to Install Fonts and Layouts' or see Microsoft support (Windows 2000 and XP).
Sanskrit 2003 (Sanskrit2003.ttf)
Free download from Omkarananda Ashram Himalayas, and packaged with their Itranslator preprocessing software for Windows.
SHREE-DV0276-OT (SHREE-DV0726-OT.TTF)
Free download from Ardh Kumbh, the City Portal for Haridwar, India. (Click on the 'Download Hindi Font Now' image at the lower right corner of the page).
Input Software and Keyboard Layouts
For typing Unicode Sanskrit on Windows platforms, the SALRC recommends the following options:
Windows 2000/XP Keyboard Layouts: Microsoft Windows 2000/XP offer full support for typing with Devanagari keyboard layouts in its multilingual support. These may be accessed through Control Panel > System > Languages, and are an optional installation (Click on 'How to Install Fonts and Layouts' in the left navigation bar for more information). The keyboard may be viewed with the On-screen Keyboard Viewer (Start > Program Files > Utilities > Accessibility > On Screen Keyboard). See Microsoft's Keyboard Layouts page to view various layouts available for Windows XP/2000/Server 2003. Microsoft's Keyboard Layout Creator allows the user to create a new keyboard, if the default keyboard layout is undesirable.
Hindi Indic IME: Microsoft's BhashaIndia site provides a set of phonetic input method editors (IMEs), compatible with Windows 2000/XP, for Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil. The IME is a separate application that must be run alongside Microsoft Office software. Note: The IMEs are designed specifically for MS Office, and do not function with other software.
OpenOffice.org: A free, open-source office suite project that is Unicode-savvy, OpenType enabled, and able to run on Linux/Sparc, Mac OS X (with X11), and all modern Windows platforms, including Windows 95.
Rendering issues: Mac vs. PC
The fonts recommended on this page have been tested for functionalityon PCs running Windows XP/2000/2003/NT. They are unsuitable for usewith Macintosh computers, because they make use of OpenType technology,developed jointly by Microsoft and Adobe, for displaying vowel signs (matras) and ligatures appropriately. While OS X also recognizes OpenType layout tables, it uses a different rendering engine (ATSUI); the above fonts are written for Microsoft's engine (called Uniscribe). For Devanagari computing, Mac users (OS X 10.3 and above) are advised to install the optional Asian Languages Support package, found in the first OS X installation CD/DVD. This will install the 'Devanagari MT' font, and enable Devanagari and Devanagari-QWERTY keyboards. The user will now be able to view Devanagari-encoded websites using Safari and to produce Unicode documents using TextEdit. Unfortunately, most other third-party browsers and word processing software, especially MS Office and Adobe InDesign, do not currently recognize this font.
These fonts are compatible with most distributions of Linux running Gnome or KDE. Most major distributions also offer or include free Hindi-language packages, which include keyboards and fonts that can be used for Sanskrit.
Additional Resources and Credits
The content and design of this page rely largely Alan Wood's Unicode Fonts and WAZU JAPAN's Gallery of Unicode Fonts; these sites are excellent and up-to-date resources to find fonts, text editors, browsers, and other Unicode resources. The statistics and other font details appearing on this page have been used with their permission. Visit Penn State's South Asian Computing Information pages, THDL's Nepali Fontspages, and Andrew Glass's Fontspage for additional Unicode support.