Jomolhari (typeface)
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| Classification | Non-Latin |
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| Designer(s) | Christopher Fynn |
| License | SIL Open Font License |
Jomolhari is a Tibetan script Uchen font created by Christopher Fynn, freely available under the Open Font License. It supports text encoded using the Unicode Standard and the Chinese national standard for encoding characters of the Tibetan script (GB/T20524-2006 "Tibetan Coded Character Set"). The design of the font is based on Bhutanese manuscript examples[1] and it is suitable for text in Tibetan, Dzongkha and other languages written in the Tibetan script.
Format and License
The Jomolhari font is available in OpenType format using TrueType outlines. It is distributed under the terms of the SIL Open Font License.
It may be downloaded from the Free Tibetan Fonts Project on the Savannah site and several other places. The VOLT project files containing the source of the OpenType lookups in the font are also available on the Savannah site.
It is also available in deb and rpm packages for Linux.
Usage
- The Jomolhari font is included with many Linux distributions including:
- Jomolhari is used as the principal font of several Bhutanese newspapers for their Dzongkha language editions or sections including:
- Jomolhari is the default Tibetan script font being used by MediaWiki[5] - including Wikipedia.
- Jomolhari is the font used for the website of the National Library of Bhutan for their Dzongkha language pages[6]
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