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Santhosh Thottingal

Palakkad, Kerala-based computer scientist. He is responsible for Autonym Font (2013). He explains: A font that can render all language autonyms. If we want to show a large number of languages written in their own scripts (autonyms), we cannot apply the usual webfonts to it. This is because when each script requires a webfont, we will end up using a large number of webfonts. This can cause large bandwidth usage. An example of this use case is a language selector on a website. Autonym font tries to solve this. The font contains glyphs and opentype rules for rendering the language autonyms. And it contains only those glyphs for a language. The glyphs for the font are taken from a large number of free licensed fonts.

The sources for the glyphs, by language, are:

• Main: FreeSans.
• Arabic: Droid Arabic Naskh
• Tibetan: Jomolhari
• Bengali: Lohit Bengali
• Telugu: Lohit Telugu
• Tamil: Meera Tamil
• Odia: Lohit Odia
• Malayalam: Meera
• Kannada: Lohit Kannada
• Gujarati: Lohit Gujarati
• Devangari: Lohit Devangari
• Khmer: Hanuman
• Thai: Droid Sans Thai
• Chinese: WenQuanYiMicroHei
• Lao: Phetsarath
• Divehi: FreeFontThaana
• Javanese: TuladhaJejeg
• Myanmar: TharLon

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INTERNAL LINKS
Indic language fonts ⦿ Type design in India ⦿ Web fonts ⦿ Font software ⦿ Typefaces and type design for Arabic ⦿ Bengali fonts ⦿ Kannada fonts ⦿ Gujarati fonts ⦿ Gurmukhi/Punjabi fonts ⦿ Tamil fonts ⦿ Laotian fonts ⦿ Type design in Indonesia ⦿ Burmese fonts ⦿ Malayalam fonts ⦿ Telugu fonts ⦿ Tibetan fonts ⦿ Tibetan fonts ⦿ Thai fonts ⦿ Cambodian (Khmer) fonts ⦿ Type design in China ⦿ Open source fonts ⦿ Oriya fonts ⦿ Thaana fonts ⦿