This file provides detailed information on the Gayathri font software. This information should be distributed along with the Gayathri fonts and any derivative works.
A gentle and modern Malayalam display typeface. Gayathri is best suited for headlines, posters, titles and captions. Unicode compliant and libre licensed. Gayathri has wide coverage of Malayalam orthography with a total of 1116 glyphs including basic latin and punctuations. It comes with three weights: Regular, Bold and Thin.
- Design: Binoy Dominic
- Opentype engineering: Kavya Manohar
- Project coordination: Santhosh Thottingal
This project was financially supported by Kerala Bhasha Institute
Gayathri belongs to the typefaces released by Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, a volunteer driven organization for developing and promoting free and opensource software for Malayalam computing. It shares the experience and expertise by the organization in its more than a decade effort in standardizing and improving opentype Malayalam typeface technology.
Gayathri inherits the traditional orthography style opentype font development practices pioneered by Rachana by K H Hussain and Rachana Aksharavedi. This includes glyph naming conventions, the supported ligature collection, a significant parts of opentype rules.
Gayathri development is currently hosted at: http://gitlab.com/smc/fonts/gayathri
Released versions of this font is available at smc.org.in/fonts for download. For old versions and detailed changelog, see https://gitlab.com/smc/fonts/gayathri/-/releases. Feature requests, bug reports and patches should be directed to our issue tracker.
(in alphabetical order)
- K H Hussain, Designer of Rachana font.
- Rajeesh K V, Opentype engineering.
- Swathanthra Malayalam computing and its volunteers for all help and support.
For a complete list of authors who contributed to the project, see CONTRIBUTORS.md
Gayathri is released under the OFL 1.1 - https://scripts.sil.org/OFL For information on what you're allowed to change or modify, consult the OFL.txt. The OFL-FAQ also gives a very general rationale and various recommendations regarding why you would want to contribute to the project or make your own version of the font.
When you are submitting patches, please add your name to CONTRIBUTORS.md if you wish to be listed there.
See the project website for the current master and the various branches: https://gitlab.com/smc/fonts/gayathri