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Kiran fonts

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Design based on
  
Shivaji

Category
  
Sans-serif

Designer
  
Kiran Bhave

Link
  
kiranfont.com

Classification
  
Non-Latin

Date released
  
1999

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Kiran (Marathi: किरण) is a free Devanagari typeface and a non-Unicode clip font created by Kiran Bhave first released in 1999.

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History

In 1999 Kiran Bhave could not find a suitable font for typing Marathi that was free after considerable searching. Thus, he was inspired to create a new typeface.

Description

The keyboard layout is an enhanced version of the Shivaji typeface and have the same keyboard layout. The typeface is used create websites using the Devanagari script.

Creator

Kiran Bhave (Marathi: किरण भावे) is from Sanpada (East), Navi Mumbai.

Timeline

  • 1999: kiran.ttf was created
  • 2000: The amruta.ttf and aarti.ttf fonts were created
  • 2001: The Kiran Font website was registered
  • 2004: KF-Kiran.ttf, KF-Amruta.ttf, KF-Aarti.ttf, KF-Aditya.ttf, KF-Arun.ttf, KF-Mitra, KF-Ravi were made available for a fee
  • 2006: The ability to pay using PayPal was added
  • 2008: KF-Kiran.ttf, KF-Amruta.ttf, KF-Aarti.ttf became free. Support for kiran.ttf, amruta.ttf, and aarti.ttf was discontinued to provide a consistent keyboard layout for free and paid users
  • 2010: A free tool to convert text from Unicode to the Kiran font was made available
  • 2012: The Indian Rupee Currency Symbol was added in all the fonts. The character is mapped at ASCII 0226 (Alt+0226) and its official Unicode codepoint U+20b9
  • 2012: KF-Prachi.ttf, KF-Jui.ttf were released as free fonts
  • 2012: KF-Bhaskar.ttf was released for a fee
  • 2013: An offline version of the conversion tool was released
  • 2013: The conversion tool was made bi-directional

    • References

    Kiran fonts Wikipedia
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