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Introduction

The Bengali script, also called Bangla script, is a Brahmi-derived writing system used in Bangladesh and parts of India to write various languages, including these:

Font Samples

font sample * font information
Sample of Akaash at 34pt Akaash    [ show all samples ]  (AkaashNormal.ttf)
Source: Free download from the Omicron Lab
Stats: Version 0.85 has 512 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Bangla at 34pt Bangla    [ show all samples ]  (Bangla.ttf)
Source: Free download from Bharat Lipi.
Stats: Version 1.0 has 425 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of BN BIDISHA Opentype at 26pt BN BIDISHA Opentype    [ show all samples ]  (BNBDOT0N.ttf)
Source: Free download from Deutsche Welle's Bengali page.
Stats: Version 4/9/2003 has 500 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Code2000 at 24pt Code2000    [ show all samples ]  (code2000.ttf)
Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage.
Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
Sample of Ekushey Azad at 30pt Ekushey Azad    [ show all samples ]  (Azad.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Ekushey Durga at 32pt Ekushey Durga    [ show all samples ]  (Durga.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Ekushey Godhuli at 24pt Ekushey Godhuli    [ show all samples ]  (Godhuli.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey project's file list.
Stats: Version 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
Sample of Ekushey Lohit at 24pt Ekushey Lohit    [ show all samples ]  (Lohit_date.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey project's file list.
Stats: Version 1.01 has 480 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali
Sample of Ekushey Mohua at 30pt Ekushey Mohua    [ show all samples ]  (Mohua_date.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 1.0 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Ekushey Puja at 34pt Ekushey Puja    [ show all samples ]  (Puja.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Ekushey Punarbhaba at 28pt Ekushey Punarbhaba    [ show all samples ]  (Punarbhaba.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Ekushey Saraswatii at 32pt Ekushey Saraswatii    [ show all samples ]  (Saraswatii.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Ekushey Sharifa at 32pt Ekushey Sharifa    [ show all samples ]  (Sharifa.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Ekushey Sumit at 28pt Ekushey Sumit    [ show all samples ]  (Sumit.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.2 / 0.0.2 has 1,272 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Free Serif at 30pt Free Serif    [ show all samples ]  (FreeSerif.ttf, FreeSerifBold.ttf, FreeSerifItalic.ttf, and FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz)
Note: Bold and italic styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font.
Source: Free download from Savannah.
Stats: Version 1.52 has 3,914 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Malayalam, Tamil, Thaana, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Latin, Malayalam (traditional), Tamil
Sample of FreeSans at 30pt FreeSans    [ show all samples ]  (FreeSans.ttf, FreeSansBold.ttf, FreeSansOblique.ttf, and FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz)
Note: Bold and oblique styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font.
Source: Free download from Savannah.
Stats: Version 1.76 has 2,734 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Armenian, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin
Sample of Hortuki at 25pt Hortuki    [ show all samples ]  (HortukiNormal.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ankur Archive Project.
Stats: Version 0.1 has 610 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Jamrul at 23pt Jamrul    [ show all samples ]  (JamrulNormal.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ankur Archive Project.
Stats: Version 0.1 has 611 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Likhan at 20pt Likhan    [ show all samples ]  (LikhanNormal.ttf from TTF_LikhanNormal.zip)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 0.6 from Ekushey has 523 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Lohit Bengali at 34pt Lohit Bengali    [ show all samples ]  (lohit_bn.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz)
Source: Free download from Ubuntu.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 478 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Mitra Mono at 26pt Mitra Mono    [ show all samples ]  (mitra.ttf)
Source: Free download from the Omicron Lab
Stats: Version 0.70 has 324 glyphs and 1 kerning pair
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali (default, zz01)
Sample of Mukti at 24pt Mukti    [ show all samples ]  (MuktiRegular.ttf and MuktiBold.ttf from freeunicodefonts.zip)
Source: Free download of download from the "ICT of Bangladesh" Yahoo Group (after you sign up)
Stats: Version 0.92 has 562 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Mukti Narrow at 24pt Mukti Narrow    [ show all samples ]  (muktinarrow.ttf)
Source: Free download from the Omicron Lab
Stats: Version 0.95 March 10, 2004 has 599 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of RaghuBengali at 28pt RaghuBengali    [ show all samples ]  (RVRaghuBengali_ship.ttf)
Source: Free download from IndiX: Indian Language support for the Linux Operating System.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 605 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of Rupali at 30pt Rupali    [ show all samples ]  (Rupali_26_6_05.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 1.04 / 1.00 U 4.1.0 has 603 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali, Latin
Sample of SamyakSans at 28pt SamyakSans    [ show all samples ]  (SamyakSans.ttf)
Source: Free download from gnowledge.org.
Stats: Version 1.0 has 2,045 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil
unusable font Saraswati5    [ show all samples ]  (SaraswatiNormal.ttf and SaraswatiBold.ttf)
Note: This font does not have the OpenType tables necessary for Bengali.
Source: Free download from Sun Microsystems (after registration).
Stats: Version 1/17/03 has 1,803 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Latin
Sample of SolaimanLipi at 30pt SolaimanLipi    [ show all samples ]  (SolaimanLipi_04_07_05.ttf)
Source: Free download from Ekushey.
Stats: Version 1.04 / 1.0 Thu June 13 17:00:00 2005 has 581 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali, Latin
Sample of SutonnyBanglaOMJ at 32pt SutonnyBanglaOMJ    [ show all samples ]  (SutonnyBanglaOMJ.ttf)
Source: Free download from BBC Bengali.
Stats: Version 1 has 549 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of SutonnyOMJ at 34pt SutonnyOMJ    [ show all samples ]  (SutonnyOMJ.ttf)
Source: see private notes for source information
Stats: Version 0.22 has 1,274 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
Sample of UniBangla at 26pt UniBangla    [ show all samples ]  (UniBangla V1.0.ttf)
Source: Free download from BanglaLinux (follow uniBangla-font link)
Stats: Version 1.0 has 329 glyphs and 1,479 kerning pairs
Support: Bengali
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali (default, zz01)
Sample of Vrinda at 36pt Vrinda    [ show all samples ]  (Vrinda.ttf)
Source: Supplied with Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2).
Stats: Version 1.03 has 814 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Bengali
 

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