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Manjari

Manjari Malayalam Typeface.

Manjari means pearl. It is also the name of a poetic metre in Malayalam. This is the second font after Chilanka handwriting font by Santhosh Thottingal. This is a multipurpose font suitable for body and titles. This font is available in regular, bold, thin style variants.

The glyph shapes follow a spiral theme, true to the beautiful curves of Malayalam. The glyphs are equal width with rounded terminals. The font has comprehensive glyph set including all widely used ligatures. Apart from Malayalam, latin character set is also included.

  • Designer: Santhosh Thottingal
  • Opentype Engineering: Santhosh Thottingal & Kavya Manohar

Download

Manjari font can be previewed and downloaded from https://smc.org.in/fonts/#manjari

Building from source

  1. Install the python libraries required for build script:
    pip3 install -r requirements.txt
    
  2. Build the ttf, otf, woff2 files:
    make all
    

Credits

See FONTLOG.md for details on contributions.

License

Manjari is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. http://scripts.sil.org/OFL