Fonts

Four variable fonts, one per Indic script, so notation copied out of the renderer keeps its marks in Word, Pages, a PDF or a chat app. Download one, double-click it, choose the family in the application.

GurmukhiTTF · 100 KBDevanagariTTF · 326 KBBengaliTTF · 223 KBGujaratiTTF · 269 KB

Swarlipi Gurmukhi — real text, not a picture. Select it and copy it.

ਸ ਰੇ̱ ਗ ਮ ਮ̍ ਪ ਧ̱ ਨੀ ਸ̇

Weight 400 – 700

400ਸ ਰੇ̱ ਗ ਮ ਮ̍ ਪ ਧ̱ ਨੀ ਸ̇

500ਸ ਰੇ̱ ਗ ਮ ਮ̍ ਪ ਧ̱ ਨੀ ਸ̇

600ਸ ਰੇ̱ ਗ ਮ ਮ̍ ਪ ਧ̱ ਨੀ ਸ̇

700ਸ ਰੇ̱ ਗ ਮ ਮ̍ ਪ ਧ̱ ਨੀ ਸ̇

At 18px

ਸ ਰੇ̱ ਗ ਮ ਮ̍ ਪ ਧ̱ ਨੀ ਸ̇

TTF is the install format: double-click works on macOS, Windows and Linux, and Word, Pages and LibreOffice all read a variable TTF. The .woff2 files beside them are only for @font-face; nothing installs a WOFF2.

The four faces

Family	Script	Weight axis	WOFF2
Swarlipi Gurmukhi	Gurmukhi	400 – 700	43 KB
Swarlipi Devanagari	Devanagari	400 – 700	110 KB
Swarlipi Bengali	Bengali	400 – 700	101 KB
Swarlipi Gujarati	Gujarati	400 – 700	87 KB

There is no Swarlipi Latin, because Latin already has one: Noto Sans carries all six marks natively and anchors them, which is where the script fonts borrow theirs from. Set copied latin notation in Noto Sans and it is correct. Roman sargam set in a Swarlipi script font works too, though its above marks sit on that script's mark line, higher than Latin capitals. The catch with system fonts is that not every Latin font has the tivra mark (U+030D) — Apple's San Francisco and Times both lack it, so tivra in a system font falls back to another face and can land off-centre.

Each script font also carries Noto Sans's basic Latin — letters, digits and punctuation on the same weight axis — so a heading or a section label can sit in the same face as the sargam. It is also what gets the fonts into Apple's menus: Pages, Keynote and Numbers list only fonts that cover the system language, so on an English-language Mac a font without Latin is missing from their font popup even though Font Book and the system Fonts panel (Format → Font → Show Fonts) show it.

On the web

The package ships the fonts under fonts/, with a stylesheet of @font-face rules. Any npm CDN serves them:

<link
  rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/swarlipi@0.2/fonts/swarlipi-fonts.css"
/>

.copied-notation {
  font-family: 'Swarlipi Gurmukhi';
}

Why they exist

The renderer needs no notation font: letters are Unicode and every mark is CSS or SVG. The plain-text export (toUnicodeNotation) is different. It is plain Unicode too, letter plus combining mark, and whether the mark shows depends on the font the destination uses. Most script fonts carry no Latin combining marks, so a shaper mixes fonts inside the cluster and the mark comes out misplaced or as a box.

The Swarlipi fonts close that gap: Noto Sans Gurmukhi, Devanagari, Bengali and Gujarati with the six marks added and anchored to every letter. Text copied from the renderer, set in the matching Swarlipi face, shapes letters and marks from one font, so it reads the same in Word, Pages, a PDF or a chat app that has the font installed. The text stays plain Unicode: in any other font it still reads, with the marks possibly dropped.

A font cannot stretch a chhand arc or a meend bar across letters. Those stay the renderer's job. The fonts are for everything the renderer cannot reach.

Marks

Mark	Combining character	Renders as
taar	U+0307 combining dot above	dot above the letter
ati taar	U+0308 combining diaeresis	two dots above
mandra	U+0323 combining dot below	dot below
ati mandra	U+0324 combining diaeresis below	two dots below
komal	U+0331 combining macron below	underline, letter-wide
tivra	U+030D combining vertical line above	short bar above

Komal is drawn as an underline that spans the letter and its vowel sign, not as a narrow diacritic, and the marks stack: tivra with a dot above it, komal with a dot below it.

Licence

The fonts derive from the Noto Sans script fonts and are released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; the licence file ships beside them. They are not called Noto because that is a Reserved Font Name under the OFL.