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  • DEFAULT Our default fonts: one for Bengali and one for Devanāgarī, made to be used together.

    Viveka Bangla বিবেক বাংলা

    Bengali script, with the slashed ব for ब.

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    Viveka Devanagari विवेक देवनागरी

    Devanāgarī script, with the joined ख.

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    Both fonts have every swara sign for Vedic text, placed as in printed books, and the same English letters from EB Garamond. Each ZIP file has all four styles (Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) and the licence.

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    Unzip both files next to your .tex file, add these lines, and compile with lualatex. Bengali and English are then set in Viveka Bangla; write Devanāgarī as {\dev …}.

    \usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{VivekaBangla}[Path=VivekaBangla/,Extension=.ttf,
  UprightFont=*-Regular,BoldFont=*-Bold,ItalicFont=*-Italic,
  BoldItalicFont=*-BoldItalic,Renderer=HarfBuzz,Script=Bengali]
\newfontfamily\dev{VivekaDevanagari}[Path=VivekaDevanagari/,Extension=.ttf,
  UprightFont=*-Regular,BoldFont=*-Bold,ItalicFont=*-Italic,
  BoldItalicFont=*-BoldItalic,Renderer=HarfBuzz,Script=Devanagari]

    For a mainly Devanāgarī document, use these lines instead, and write Bengali as {\ben …}.

    \usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{VivekaDevanagari}[Path=VivekaDevanagari/,Extension=.ttf,
  UprightFont=*-Regular,BoldFont=*-Bold,ItalicFont=*-Italic,
  BoldItalicFont=*-BoldItalic,Renderer=HarfBuzz,Script=Devanagari]
\newfontfamily\ben{VivekaBangla}[Path=VivekaBangla/,Extension=.ttf,
  UprightFont=*-Regular,BoldFont=*-Bold,ItalicFont=*-Italic,
  BoldItalicFont=*-BoldItalic,Renderer=HarfBuzz,Script=Bengali]
  • Other fonts
    • Ved Devanagari NEW — Devanāgarī for Vedic text, with the svara marks placed as in printed books. Made from Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit; the letter ख is from Noto Serif Devanagari. Download TTF
    • Ved Devanagari Split Kha NEW — the same font with Tiro’s original split ख. It installs alongside Ved Devanagari. Download TTF
    • Ved Bangla NEW — Bengali script for Vedic text: Dev Bangla with the svara marks added. Download TTF
    • Dev Bangla NEW — Bengali script that keeps ब and व apart: plain ব for व, slashed ব for ब. Made from Tiro Bangla. Download TTF · See all forms
  • Licence — all six fonts are free under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL). You may use them for any purpose, embed them in documents, software and websites, and modify and share them, keeping the copyright notice and licence with each copy. A font may not be sold by itself, and a modified font must stay under the OFL. Documents made with the fonts carry no restriction. Tiro Bangla and Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit are © 2020 The Indigo Project Authors; Noto Serif Devanagari is © 2019 Google Inc.; EB Garamond is © 2017 The EB Garamond Project Authors.

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