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Malayalam

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font sample *	font information
	Akshar Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (Akshar.ttf) Source: Free download from Kamban Software. Stats: Version 0.07 December 23, 2004 has 1,751 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Devanagari, Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Kannada, Malayalam (old style), Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu
	AnjaliOldLipi    [ show all samples ]  (AnjaliOldLipi-0.720.ttf) Source: Free download from the Varamozhi Malayalam Editor site. Stats: Version 0.720 2004 has 529 glyphs and 15 kerning pairs Support: Malayalam, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Malayalam (traditional)
	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
	JanaMalayalam    [ show all samples ]  (RRJanaMalayalam.TTF from JanaMalayalam.zip) Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site. Stats: Version 0.99.1 July 2004 has 261 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Malayalam OpenType Layout Tables: Malayalam (default, traditional, reformed)
	Kartika    [ show all samples ]  (Kartika.ttf) Source: Supplied with Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2). Stats: Version 1.06 has 468 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Malayalam, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Malayalam (default, traditional, reformed)
	Karumbi    [ show all samples ]  (Karumbi.ttf) Source: Free download from the Varamozhi Malayalam Editor site. Stats: Version 0.800 2005 has 984 glyphs and 192 kerning pairs Support: Malayalam, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Malayalam (traditional)
	malayalam    [ show all samples ]  (malayalam.ttf) Note: This font does not have the OpenType tables necessary for Malayalam. Source: Download from Free Malayalam Computing Stats: Version 1.1 has 251 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Malayalam, Latin
	MalOtf    [ show all samples ]  (MalOtf.ttf) Warning: This font does not support Malayalam, despite having OpenType tables. Source: Download from Free Malayalam Computing Stats: Version 1.1 has 293 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Malayalam, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Malayalam
	ML-NILA01    [ show all samples ]  (ML-NILA01.ttf) Source: Free download from CLiCK. Stats: Version 1.0_2004 has 191 glyphs and 1 kerning pair Support: Malayalam OpenType Layout Tables: Malayalam (old style)
	ML-NILA02    [ show all samples ]  (ML-NILA02.ttf) Source: Free download from CLiCK. Stats: Version 1.0_2004 has 191 glyphs and 1 kerning pair Support: Malayalam OpenType Layout Tables: Malayalam (old style)
	ML-NILA03    [ show all samples ]  (ML-NILA03.ttf) Source: Free download from CLiCK. Stats: Version 1.0_2004 has 191 glyphs and 1 kerning pair Support: Malayalam OpenType Layout Tables: Malayalam (old style)
	ML-NILA04    [ show all samples ]  (ML-NILA04.ttf) Source: Free download from CLiCK. Stats: Version 1.0_2004 has 191 glyphs and 1 kerning pair Support: Malayalam OpenType Layout Tables: Malayalam (old style)
	MLU-Panini    [ show all samples ]  (MLU-Panini.TTF) Source: Free download from RCILTS-Malayalam. Stats: Version 1.0 July 7 2003 has 191 glyphs and 1 kerning pair Support: Malayalam OpenType Layout Tables: Malayalam (traditional)
	rachana    [ show all samples ]  (rachana.otf from the rachana.otf.bz2 archive.) Warning: This font does not support Malayalam, despite having OpenType tables. Source: Free download from Ramakrishnan's homepage. Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .bz2 download. Stats: Version Rachana1999-2004 GNU-GPL has 992 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Malayalam OpenType Layout Tables: Latin, Malayalam
	Rachana_w01    [ show all samples ]  (Rachana_w01.ttf or Rachana_w01.otf) Source: Free download from the Varamozhi Malayalam Editor site. Stats: Version 0.001 2005 has 1,058 glyphs and 88 kerning pairs Support: Malayalam, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin, Malayalam (traditional)
	RaghuMalayalam    [ show all samples ]  (RRRaghuMalayalam_ship.ttf) Source: Free download from IndiX: Indian Language support for the Linux Operating System. Stats: Version 1.00 has 261 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Malayalam OpenType Layout Tables: Malayalam
	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
	Saraswati5    [ show all samples ]  (SaraswatiNormal.ttf and SaraswatiBold.ttf) Note: This font does not have the OpenType tables necessary for Malayalam. Source: Free download from Sun Microsystems (after registration). Stats: Version 1/17/03 has 1,803 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Latin
	ThoolikaTraditionalUnicode    [ show all samples ]  (tholitrd.ttf) Note: There is also a version called ThoolikaTraditionalUnicodeNew0 (TholiUC1.ttf) for use with Uniscribe/USP10.DLL versions 1.473.4067.0 or later. Source: Free download from Supersoft. Stats: Version 1.02 has 676 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Malayalam OpenType Layout Tables: Malayalam
	ThoolikaUnicode    [ show all samples ]  (thooliuc.ttf) Note: There is also a version called ThoolikaUnicodeNew0 (TholTrd1.ttf) for use with Uniscribe/USP10.DLL versions 1.473.4067.0 or later. Source: Free download from Supersoft. Stats: Version 1.01 has 299 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Malayalam OpenType Layout Tables: Malayalam

 

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Related Links

• The Unicode implementation of Malayalam is described in chapter 9 (South Asian Scripts) of The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0.
• The Unicode character code charts are available at the organization's website.
• SALRC (South Asia Language Resource Center) has recommendations on Unicode fonts, input schemes, and keyboard layouts.
• Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about the Malayalam Unicode block and its characters can be found on decodeunicode's Malayalam block page (in English and German/Deutsch).
• Writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot.

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