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The SALRC recommends the following Devanagari fonts for use in Sanskrit language pedagogy and Internet applications:įree download from Ardh Kumbh, the City Portal for Haridwar, India. 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'.

Sanskrit in Other Scripts: Sanskrit may also be represented in archaic scripts.

Visit Omkarananda Ashram, TDIL, or Everson Typography's repository for the latest updates regarding the status of Vedic Unicode proposals. 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. 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. only Udatta (Ux0951) and Anudatta (Ux0952) accents are included.

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.The fonts on this page provide a broader support of complex ligatures than other Devanagari Unicode fonts. 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. Specialized ligatures: Sanskrit texts feature a much larger set of conjunct consonants or 'ligatures' than modern vernaculars.

A few issues arise in Sanskrit typography that are not present in other Devanagari-based languages:

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. Notes | Recommended Fonts | Keyboard Layouts | Mac vs.