The order of the letters is based on articulatory phonetics.When consonants occur together in clusters, special conjunct letters are used.This feature is common to most of the alphabets of South and South East Asia. Vowels can be written as independent letters, or by using a variety of diacritical marks which are written above, below, before or after the consonant they belong to.Consonant letters carry an inherent vowel which can be altered or muted by means of diacritics or matra.Writing direction: left to right in horizontal lines.Type of writing system: Abugida / Syllabic Alphabet.The name is variously translated as "script of the city", "heavenly/sacred script of the city" or " city of the Gods or priests". The name Devanāgarī is made up of two Sanskrit words: deva, which means god, brahman or celestial, and nāgarī, which means city. This script was starting to resemble the modern Devanāgarī alphabet by the 10th century, and started to replace Siddham from about 1200. While the Chandas font has glyphs in the Southern (Bombay) style of Devanagari script, which is the most commonly used today, the Uttara font has glyphs which follow the old Northern (Calcutta) style of Devanagari Script.Developed from eastern variants of the Gupta script called Nāgarī, which first emerged during the 8th century. The Chandas font has a companion font called Uttara. Chandas and Uttara supports both usual Ṛg Veda and Sāmaveda accents.Ĭhandas also includes Latin and Cyrillic characters with diacritic marks according to ISO15919 and corresponding Open Type tables for Sanskrit transliteration. The font includes Vedic accents and many additional signs and provides maximal support for Devanagari script. It is designed especially for Vedic and Classical Sanskrit but can also be used for Hindi, Nepali and other modern Indian languages. This font is therefore useful for those who want to see old Sanskrit texts in their original form. The Chandas font contains 4347 glyphs: 325 half-forms, 960 half-forms context-variations, 2743 ligature-signs. Though this font was primarily designed for writing Sanskrit, it may be used for all languages written in the Devanagari script, including Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali. The font is notable for containing a particularly extensive set of conjunct ligatures for Sanskrit and also supporting Vedic accents unavailable in other Devanagari fonts at the time of its release. Siddhanta supports both usual Ṛg Veda and Sāmaveda accents.
DEVANAGARI WRITING FREE
Latin and Cyrillic glyph sets (based on DejaVu font) can be used according to free license.
DEVANAGARI WRITING SOFTWARE
It can be included in free and commercial software distributives as free addition, without any additional payment for it. The limitation of commercial usage means that the font cannot be sold as commercial product but can be used as font in publishing, printing and retailing of other commercial products. Siddhanta font software (including font variations and Vaidika IME) is published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. The font can be used as samples for learning the Devanagari writing.
DEVANAGARI WRITING FULL
Siddhanta is a calligraphically precise and realistic font - there are no gaps between half-forms and full forms of characrets. Siddhanta is a manually hinted true type font - it is good for use both in screen and in print its line weight is good for eyes Siddhanta supports Unicode 6.0 standard and is compatible with Intranslator 2003 and partly compatible with Chandas font The font also contains Latin and Cyrillic character sets and can be used for Sanskrit transliteration Siddhanta contains Vedic and Devanagari Extended Unicode character sets. Siddhanta supports many ligature variations and script variations Calcutta, Bombay and Nepali styles Siddhanta uses vertical ligature composition due to this feature it supports the largest amount of Devanagari ligatures The font can be used for Sanskrit, Vedic, Hindi, Nepali and other languages which use the Devanagari script.