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Gurmukhi Fonts

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GurbaniAkhar type-faces, (Regular, Light, Slim & Heavy) are a family of Gurmukhi fonts that are optimized for writing text of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in the customary format (i.e.; these fonts fulfill the requirement of writing 19 lines of Gurbani text per page in the landscape page orientation and with a decent font size). Most characters in these fonts have lesser width than the AnmolLipi or AmrLipi family of type faces. This font family is needed to view the Banis for Download, the SikhNet Daily Hukamnama Email, and Shabads for Printing pdf version. Font by Kulbir S. Thind.
DOWNLOAD GurbaniAkhar.zip ,DOWNLOAD GurbaniAkhar.EXE ,G-Akhar Kmap.doc
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Gurbani Web Thick - This type face will be needed to view the fonts on the SikhiToTheMax search engine.
DOWNLOAD GurbaniWebThick.ttf
 see example
Prabhki, handwritten calligraphy style with tails, primarily designed as a display font (for use in titles and so on) - Font by Albel Singh
DOWNLOAD Prabhkii.ttf , Learn more about this font
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Lanma, the same handwritten style (with the same extended key mappings) but with longer, more decorative tails, primarily designed for use as a display font for use as, say, certificate or book titles or fancy images. Font by Paul Grosse.
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Raaj, a handwritten style with tails, primarily designed as a display font (for use in titles and so on) - especially the script versions. Each Raaj and Rajaa font is in seven styles: thin, light, normal, bold, black, script-thin and script. Font by Paul Grosse.
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Raajaa, the same handwritten style (with the same extended key mappings) but without the tails, primarily designed for use in body text. Each Raaj and Rajaa font is in seven styles: thin, light, normal, bold, black, script-thin and script. Using the same key mappings means that you can change the font from Raaj to raajaa without having to re-work any special sequences you have set; Font by Paul Grosse.
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Magaz, A clean, stylized, legible, font, designed to work down to really small sizes if required but keeping a consistent size and clean appearance as large as you like; The Magaz font is in five weights: thin, light, normal, bold and black. They are fully hinted and because of colour-balancing, the bold font will work at very small pixel sizes (clear at 9 px em size); Font by Paul Grosse.
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Karmic Sanj, A clean, informal, font, designed to be a Gurmukhi mirror for the ComicSansMS font that you see just about everywhere; The Karmic Sanj font has seven weights: thin, light, book, medium, bold, heavy and black.Font by Paul Grosse.
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Bulara, A clean, legible, font, designed to work as a display font. Comes in various bold styles as well as true, hollow styles which, unlike many other hollow or outline fonts, has endcaps; Font by Paul Grosse.
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GHW Adhiapak, This is a real-life Gurmukhi handwritten font. It is still highly legible as it keeps largely to the Gurbani style of character production - the sort of style that your teacher would use. However, on the other hand, it turns your machine-produced-looking text into something that a real person would have written, capturing the energy and flow of the writing.
It appears in 9 different weights from Thin to Black.; Font by Paul Grosse.
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GHW Dukandar, an informal font, designed to look like Punjabi shorthand, for example the kind of handwriting that a shop keeper (dukandar) in Punjab might use. Comes in regular and bold, marker, and marker bold; Font by Paul Grosse.
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Punjabi Typewriter, A monospaced, font, designed to represent the output of a typewriter. At 10 points, this gives 80 characters across on A4 paper with a reasonable border. Font by Paul Grosse.
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Rupe, Primarily designed as a display font, although it has the legibility of a body text font as well, this highly stylised font takes the efficiency of GHW Dukandar - eliminating any part of a character that does not help to differentiate it from other characters (such as between ਮ and ਸ) but with the overriding requirement that it is still legible with as little effort as possible - and formalises it into a clean, consistent font. Font by Paul Grosse.
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Gurvetica A, a highly legible font, designed to work extremely well both in display and body text. Attention has been paid to differentiating between vowels so that people with less than perfect vision can read smaller point sizes better - thus making reading newspapers, books and leaflets easier to read. Font by Paul Grosse.
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Do I want 'Gurvetica' or 'Gurvetica A'?

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Web Akhar Thick, will be needed to view the online Siri Guru Granth Sahib and Shabads for Printing html version on SikhNet.
DOWNLOAD WebAkharThick.ttf

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Web Akhar Slim, is the slim version of the above font. Required for viewing the Hukamnama on the SGPC website.
DOWNLOAD WebAkharSlim.ttf

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GurbaniHindi, a Hindi font that is optimized for writing Gurbani in Hindi. Font by Kulbir S. Thind.
DOWNLOAD Gurhindi.ttf , Hindi Keymap.doc

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GurbaniRomanizing, a font optimized for romanizing Gurbani (& Gurmukhi).
DOWNLOAD Gurrom.ttf.
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AnmolLipi type-faces, (Regular, Light, Slim, Bold, Thick, Raised, Ubhri, Kalmi) are a family of Gurmukhi fonts with variations in display that are suitable for writing modern Punjabi where international numbers are used as a routine. Classic Gurmukhi number characters are also included as symbols. Font by Kulbir S. Thind.
DOWNLOAD AnmolLipi.zip , DOWNLOAD AnmolLipi.EXE , Anmol Keymap.doc , Anmol Keymap2.doc
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AmrLipi type-faces, (AmrLipi, AmrLipiLight, AmrLipiSlim) are a family of Gurmukhi fonts with variations in display that are suitable for writing Punjabi where classic Gurmukhi numbers are used as a routine. Font by Kulbir S. Thind.
DOWNLOAD AmrLipi.zip , DOWNLOAD AmrLipi.EXE , Amrlipi Keymap.doc , Amrlipi Keymap2.doc
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GurbaniLipi & GurbaniLipiLight, along with their bold versions are a family of Gurmukhi fonts with variations in thickness that are optimized for writing text of Shree Guru Granth Sahib in the customary format. Font by Kulbir S. Thind.
DOWNLOAD Gurblipi.ttf , DOWNLOAD Gurbli_l.ttf , GLipi Kymap1.doc , Amrlipi Keymap2.doc
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Web Lipi Heavy, is another font thay may be used by some websites.
DOWNLOAD WebLipiHeavy.ttf.

 

All fonts available here use this key map

keymap

 

Download Gurmukhi Unicode Softwares

GUCA - Gurbani Unicode Conversion Application
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This software is good for copying Gurmukhi text and converting it to Unicode.

GUT - Gurbani Unicode Type
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This software is good for typing Gurmukhi text in Unicode.

 

Fonts by Dr. Kulbir S. Thind

These fonts are available for download to use with the Siri Guru Granth Sahib Files. These fonts, are free for individual use. Any other use of the fonts, including mirroring or copying, is prohibited without the express written consent of Dr. Kulbir S. Thind. For PC users, the file to download is a compressed "zip" file. After downloading the font files and unzipping to your chosen folder follow the instructions to install the fonts on your computer.

Gurbani Font Manual: For complete information on the fonts you can read the Font Manual.

Font Manual.zip , Font Manual.doc

Download Dr. Thind's fonts compressed in a single compressed "Zip" file:
(If your computer is a Macintosh you can de-compress by downloading the Aladdin Stuffit Expander) Compressed in Zip format

Download Dr. Thind's fonts compressed in a self extracting archive (windows). After downloading just double click on the file with your mouse and select a location where you want the files extracted to. Then proceed to read how to install the fonts. Self Extracting Archive (Compressed)

Licensing Policy

Dr. Thind's Type-faces are free but are licensed for use only. Users are not permitted to illegally sell his type-faces or to modify the outlines for making profit or for other purposes. They are also not to distribute copies of his type-faces to others, free or otherwise. The distribution should be left to Dr. Thind and to individuals authorized by him as there are many advantages in doing so. If you do want to give Dr. Thind's fonts to others, you must first obtain permission from him.