Dear Nataliya and Michael,

some time ago I also was in search of a proper Śāradā font and decided to render one myself, should there be enough time, based on the mss. I am working with. If you should discover a proper design in the meantime, I would be very glad about any notice.

Aside its questionable style, the Noto Sans font only contains the most basic ligatures rendered rather inaccurately, beside e.g. a superlinear Jihvāmūlīya rendition I’ve never seen anywhere.

Best,


Raik Strunz
 




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>>> Nataliya Yanchevskaya via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> 21.06.20 10.31 Uhr >>>
Dear Michael,
Many thanks for your detailed answer! I know about Google NOTO – it is unusable indeed. 
I will look into the Newari fonts you recommend, although they are probably no good for Bhujimol.
Thanks again!
Nataliya

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 3:21 PM Michael.Slouber--- via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Nataliya,

I have searched extensively in the past few years for Sharada and Newari fonts (preferring unicode) for use as illustrations of original texts in my forthcoming edited anthology, *A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses* (UC Press). 

For Sharada, the only option I was able to find is Google's Noto Sans Sharada, which is so ugly as to be unusable. 

For Newari fonts, there are some decent ones for modern forms of the script, such as described at the bottom of this page (with links to the fonts).  I am not aware of any fonts for the older "Bhujimol" form of the script.  There is also a Devanagari-encoded "unicode" font for the Ranjana script you might be interested in, described here.  These Devanagari-encoded Newar fonts work well, despite using the Devanagari unicode character map.  See here and here for full-page samples.

All the best,

Michael
-- Michael Slouber, Ph.D.Associate Professor, South Asian StudiesGlobal Humanities and ReligionsWestern Washington University
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