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Bangla fonts for the web

I am listing only fonts that are unicode-compliant. These can be divided into proprietary, free, and shareware categories. The free fonts have been made publically available, usually under a "copy left" license like the GPL. A number of them have been collected by the Free Bangla Fonts Project. Companies like Microsoft and Adobe also produce font sets, but release them under more restrictive licenses.

Each font presented below includes a picture of what the font should look like. Beneath that is the same text, but written as characters. A "style" directive instructs the browser to print the text in the appropriate font. If you have the font installed and your browser can handle the unicode fonts properly, the picture and the text for each font should look about the same. If they do not match up, download corresponding font from the links below, install the font, and then try reloading this page to see if the problem has corrected.

Proprietary Fonts

Font Name: Vrinda
Sample: vrinda font
Test Text: ‡¶è‡¶ï ‡¶¶‡ßŇ¶á ‡¶§‡¶ø‡¶® ‡¶ö‡¶æ‡¶∞ ‡¶™‡¶æ‡¶Å‡¶ö ‡¶õ‡ßü
Source: Microsoft
Comment: This font is part of the XP distribution. You may need to enable "Indic fonts" under the Regional Settings menu of the Control Panel.
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Free Fonts

Font Name: Akaash
Sample: akaash font /
Test Text: ‡¶è‡¶ï ‡¶¶‡ßŇ¶á ‡¶§‡¶ø‡¶® ‡¶ö‡¶æ‡¶∞ ‡¶™‡¶æ‡¶Å‡¶ö ‡¶õ‡ßü
Source: Free Bangla Fonts Project
Comment: The fonts available from the Bangla Fonts project are compressed in tarball format.
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Font Name: Ani
Sample: ani font
Test Text: ‡¶è‡¶ï ‡¶¶‡ßŇ¶á ‡¶§‡¶ø‡¶® ‡¶ö‡¶æ‡¶∞ ‡¶™‡¶æ‡¶Å‡¶ö ‡¶õ‡ßü
Source: Free Bangla Fonts Project
Comment: Ani is thinner than other fonts, and may be a bit more difficult to read, particularly when the font size is small. The font has an italic slant to it.
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Font Name: Likhan
Sample:likhan font
Test Text: ‡¶è‡¶ï ‡¶¶‡ßŇ¶á ‡¶§‡¶ø‡¶® ‡¶ö‡¶æ‡¶∞ ‡¶™‡¶æ‡¶Å‡¶ö ‡¶õ‡ßü
Source: Free Bangla Fonts Project
Comment: In the same way that Ani gives the impression of being italic, this font is heavy, almost bold.
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Font Name: Mukti Narrow
Sample:mukti narrow font
Test Text: ‡¶è‡¶ï ‡¶¶‡ßŇ¶á ‡¶§‡¶ø‡¶® ‡¶ö‡¶æ‡¶∞ ‡¶™‡¶æ‡¶Å‡¶ö ‡¶õ‡ßü
Source: Free Bangla Fonts Project
Comment: Mukti Narrow is a modern, austere font.
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Font Name: SolaimanLipi
Sample: solaimanlipi font
Test Text: ‡¶è‡¶ï ‡¶¶‡ßŇ¶á ‡¶§‡¶ø‡¶® ‡¶ö‡¶æ‡¶∞ ‡¶™‡¶æ‡¶Å‡¶ö ‡¶õ‡ßü
Source: Free Bangla Fonts Project
Comment: This is a rounded font, and with pronounced curls; if Bangla had serif fonts, this would be it.
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Font Name: Rupali
Sample: rupali font
Test Text: ‡¶è‡¶ï ‡¶¶‡ßŇ¶á ‡¶§‡¶ø‡¶® ‡¶ö‡¶æ‡¶∞ ‡¶™‡¶æ‡¶Å‡¶ö ‡¶õ‡ßü
Source: Free Bangla Fonts Project
Comment: Like Ani, this font is relatively light.
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Shareware Fonts

Font Name: Code 2000
Sample:code 2000 font
Test Text: ‡¶è‡¶ï ‡¶¶‡ßŇ¶á ‡¶§‡¶ø‡¶® ‡¶ö‡¶æ‡¶∞ ‡¶™‡¶æ‡¶Å‡¶ö ‡¶õ‡ßü
Source: James Kass
Comment: The Code2000 character set consisted of more than sixty thousand glyphs at the time this review was written. This font is a must for multilingual websites. The font is available for download and trial, but the author requests a small contribution if you continue to use the font.
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