Download best and popular Unicode and ANSI Kannada fonts for FREE. Our Kannada fonts is supported on Windows, Mac and Linux Operating system. In addition, get a link to Google web fonts and use them on website by adding them either on CSS or JavaScript file.

Unicode Kannada Fonts

There are many Unicode Kannada fonts available for free download. Below are some of the most popular and beautiful Kannada Unicode Fonts.

Baamini Tamil Font. Yet Another Bold, Strong and Elegant Font. Use for Official and other daily use. Yes, download is FREE. Windows / Mac / Linux. Boopalam Tamil Font. Italic and Bold. Use this on official document and other daily purpose documents to emphasis and draw attention of the user to the section of the text.

ANSI Kannada Fonts

Download ANSI fonts and start typing in Kannada straightaway.

Google Kannada Fonts

• Browse Fonts - Google Fonts. Font properties. Show only variable fonts. 9 of 1064 families.
• This site is all about Tamil fonts which are free to download. This site ambitions to help you download high-quality Tamil fonts which contain different Tamil fonts that are typically hard to find. We offer you 500+ Tamil fonts for download. To Download Tamil fonts click on bellow’s link. This Font is free. Diamond Regular is a Regular OpenType Font.

Google has many popular Kannada web font families that can be used on the website by adding either CSS or JavaScript into source code. Below are few of them:

How do I download and install Kannada font?

Open the Windows Explorer and go to C:WindowsFonts directory. Then goto Control Panel, click on Fonts, click on 'Install New Fonts' and finally go tothe directory where you have downloaded and extracted the font file.

Select all the fonts and click ok. This will install the required fonts.

After installation, you should now be able to see the Kannada fonts on Microsoft Word or any other program that support text processing

If you are unable to see the installed font, you might need to restart the computer.

Frequently Asked Questions?

What is the difference between Unicode & ANSI Kannada font?

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Both ANSI and UTF-8 are encoding formats. ANSI is a Microsoft-related standard for character and it is used to encode Latin Alphabets. Whereas, UTF-8 is one of the implementations of Unicode that includes more than 128,000 characters.

What is Unicode?

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Unicode is a universal character encoding standard. It defines how individual character is represented in web pages or any other types of text files and documents.

There are different types of Unicode encoding with UTF-8 and UTF-16 being the most common. The UTF-8 encoding is used on the Web and it is the default encoding standard used in many software programs.

UTF-8 Unicode encoding can support up to four bytes to represent characters. For English characters, UTF-8 uses only one byte. European (Latin), Hebrew, and Arabic characters are represented with two bytes. On the other hand, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian characters are represented with three bytes. Some special characters are even represented with four bytes.

Recommended Fonts | Keyboard Layouts | Mac vs. PC vs. Linux Rendering Issues | Credits

Recommended Fonts

The SALRC recommends the following fonts for use with Tamil language pedagogy and Internet applications:
[Click on font names or samples for specific information and text samples for each font.]

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Akshar Unicode (akshar.ttf)

Free download from Kamban Software.

Note: This font also supports Devanagari, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, and Telugu.

Arial Unicode MS (arialuni.ttf)

A commercial font available as part of Microsoft's Office 2000/XP, FrontPage 2000, and Publisher 2002.

Note: To access this font, the 'International Support' feature of MS Office/FrontPage/Publisher must be installed. See Microsoft support for more details.

JanaTamil (RRJanaTamil.ttf)

Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.

Latha (latha.ttf)

Commercial font included with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000, as a part of 'Supplemental Language Support.' For installation details, click on 'How to Install Fonts and Layouts' or see Microsoft support (Windows 2000 and XP).

ThendralUni (ThendralUni.ttf)

Free download from csd_one.

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TheneeUni (TheneeUni.ttf)

Free download from csd_one.

VaigaiUni (VaigaiUni.ttf)

Free download from csd_one.

Input Software and Keyboard Layouts

For typing in Tamil on Windows platforms, the SALRC recommends the following options:

• Windows 2000/XP Keyboard Layouts: Microsoft Windows 2000/XP offer full support for typing with Tamil keyboard layouts in its multilingual support. These may be accessed through Control Panel > System > Languages, and are an optional installation (Click on 'How to Install Fonts and Layouts' in the left navigation bar for more information). The keyboard may be viewed with the On-screen Keyboard Viewer (Start > Program Files > Utilities > Accessibility > On Screen Keyboard). See Microsoft's Keyboard Layouts page to view various layouts available for Windows XP/2000/Server 2003.
• Tamil Indic IME: Microsoft's BhashaIndia site provides a set of phonetic input method editors (IMEs), compatible with Windows 2000/XP, for Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil. The IME is a separate application that must be run alongside Microsoft Office software. Note: The IMEs are designed specifically for MS Office, and do not function with other software.
• OpenOffice.org: A free, open-source office suite project that is Unicode-savvy, OpenType enabled, and able to run on Linux/Sparc, Mac OS X (with X11), and all modern Windows platforms, including Windows 95.

Rendering issues: Apple vs. PC

The fonts recommended on this page have been tested for functionality on PCs running Windows XP. They are, however, unsuitable for use with most programs under Apple OS X.

Since the release of the latest Mac OS version 10.4 (Tiger), Tamil Unicode support is available at the operating system level for Apple computers. The system software comes with a Tamil Unicode font called InaiMathi, which can display all Tamil characters. The OS provides two keyboard layout options: Murasu Anjal (somewhat phonetically based) and Tamilnet99.

Tamil Unicode webpages should display correctly by default. To enable Tamil Unicode keyboard support on Mac OS 10.4, do the following:

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• Open 'System Preferences...' (available under the Apple sign)
• Select 'International' (under Personal)
• Select 'Edit List...' (under Language)
• Click 'Show' (next to Tamil)
• Click 'OK'
• Select 'Input Menu' (under International)
• Click 'ON' next to Murasu Anjal Tamil
• Confirm that Anjal and Tamil99 are selected (under Murasu Anjal Tamil)
• Close the window (press red button)
• To input in Tamil, click on the national flag menu (likely US flag) on the vertical bar at the top of the screen and select one of the keyboards. The font will by default be InaiMathi.

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These fonts are compatible with most distributions of Linux running Gnome or KDE. Most major distributions also offer or include free Tamil-language packages, which include keyboards and fonts.

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Additional Resources and Credits

The content and design of this page rely largely Alan Wood's Unicode Fonts and WAZU JAPAN's Gallery of Unicode Fonts; these sites are excellent and up-to-date resources to find fonts, text editors, browsers, and other Unicode resources. The statistics and other font details appearing on this page have been used with their permission. Visit Penn State's South Asian Computing Information pages for additonal Unicode support.