Can't Read Hindi. Download Hindi Font and Install into the system.
To read Hindi online every system needs a Hindi Unicode Font. Download Hindi fonts from the links given below.
There are two types of hindi fonts ASCII and Unicode. There are lot of hindi fonts available in ASCII and Unicode format. Some of them are Proprietary and some of the hindi.fonts are released using GNU/GPL License.
Lot of Hindi ASCII fonts are available. Most of the fonts are Proprietary. Each hindi font use custom hindi keyboard layouts. To type in hindi.a user need to learn these layouts also. To read various hindi text an average user need to install all these hindi fonts.
Most of the unicode hindi fonts are released under GPL license. You can download them free of cost and use them. The Unicode fonts are presented with common keyboard layout called Inscript. Some of the hindi fonts are listed below.
Open Type Unicode Compatable Hindi fonts for Windows and Linux.
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, Hindi
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Kannada, Malayalam (old style), Sinhala, Tamil, Hindi
Download Akshar Hindi Unicode Font
Source: Copyright (c) Mihail Bayaryn, 2005.
Stats: Version 1.9
Support: Chandas is Devanagari Unicode Open Type font (ttf) with large ligature set. It is designed especially for Vedic and Classical Sanskrit but can also be used for Hindi, Nepali and other modern Indian languages.
OpenType Layout Tables: Hindi
License : GPL
Source: Open Type rules and extra glyphsets made by the Localization Team HBCSE,TIFR, Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education, Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai 400 088, INDIA.
Stats: Version 1.9
Support: Devanagari character shapes improved and maintained by Monika Shah and Sonali Sonania of janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumbai.
OpenType Layout Tables: Hindi
License : GPL
Copyright 2011-12 Lohit Fonts Project contributors at
Fedora Hosted.
Open type tables written by:
Pravin Satpute - psatpute AT redhat DOT com,
Sneha Kore - skore At redhat DOT com
Licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (see file OFL.txt)
Created by:
Rahul Bhalerao - [email protected],
Sandeep Shedmake - [email protected],
Bageshri Salvi - [email protected],
Pravin Satpute - [email protected]
GNU GPL V.2, Copyright `2005-2006 by H.B.C.S.E., T.I.F.R.,
Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education,
Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research,
V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd,
Mumbai 400 088, INDIA.
CONTACTS:
Nagarjuna G.
Email:[email protected]
Nakula Devanagari font © 2006 University of Cambridge. Designed and developed by IMRC, India. Latin and Cyrillic glyphs from the font Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular, © 1999 (URW)++ Design & Development; Cyrillic glyphs by Valek Filippov © 2001-2002.