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Jomolhari (typeface)

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Jomolhari
ClassificationNon-Latin
Designer(s)Christopher Fynn
LicenseSIL Open Font License

Jomolhari is a Tibetan script U-chen font created by Christopher Fynn and freely available under the Open Font License. It supports text encoded using the Unicode Standard and the Chinese national standard for encoding characters of the Tibetan script. The design of the font is based on Bhutanese manuscript examples[1] and it is suitable for text in Tibetan, Dzongkha and other languages written in the Tibetan script.

Usage

  • The Jomolhari font is included with several Linux distributions.
  • Jomolhari is used as the main font of several Bhutanese newspapers for their Dzongkha language editions including:
  • Jomolhari is the font used for the website of the National Library of Bhutan for their Dzongkha language pages [2]

References

  1. ^ "Free Tibetan Fonts Project". Savannah. Free Tibetan Fonts Project. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Fonts". National Library of Bhutan. National Library of Bhutan. Retrieved 25 May 2013.