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Akhil HE
‘Akhil HE’ is a professionally hinted, Unicode compliant, OpenType font. It can be used to render multilingual text without inserting any formatting code! This sans-serif font can become your favourite one.
In font’s name ‘E’ is for English and ‘H’ is for ‘Hindi’. But apart from English and Hindi (spoken by about 400 million people) text, this font can be used for rendering text of following Nagari (aka Devanagari) languages -
1. Marathi (spoken by about 100 million people),
2. Sanskrit (the sacred classical language),
3. Nepali (state language of Kingdom of Nepal).
The following non-Nagari languages are also sometimes (though rarely) written using Nagari. So this font may be used for rendering text of Sindhi, Gujarati, Kashmiri and even Urdu languages. These languages have their own scripts. Only those people who live in Nagari dominated areas sometimes prefer Nagari to write text of these languages.
This font can be used for rendering following Indian languages (most of these languages are dialects of Hindi) -
Awadhi, Bihari, Brajbhasha, Chhattisgarhi, Konkani, Marwari, Garhwali, Mundari, Newari, Bagheli, Bhatneri, Bhili, Gondi, Jaipuri, Harauti, Ho, Kachchhi, Kanauji, Kului, Kumaoni, Kurku, Kurukh, Palpa, Santali.
For supporting all these languages just two scripts are required. So this font contains Nagari glyphs for supporting lot of Indian languages apart from the regular Latin glyphs used in English. In future versions of this font we will include glyphs etc. to support other European and Indian languages.
This font is for regular use. Its design (typeface) is simple (sans-serif) and somewhat geometric. It renders multilingual text very well even for small point sizes on low resolution devices like monitors.
Lot of programming codes are stuffed in this font. Just about 20% of the size of this font file is about the design of glyphs (letter shapes). About 60% of this font file is meant for controlling display of glyphs at various sizes. So that is why this font renders better than most of the fonts. Programming in it also controls the transition of glyphs from 1 pixel to 2 pixel width. So the smooth transition from single pixel to double pixel width occurs over a range of sizes. It is a carefully crafted and logically programmed font.
There is a variant ‘Akhil’ of this font which has lot of aforementioned qualities. ‘Akhil’ is a compact font for regular English only text.
ISE-AIPL’s Notes - Following text may be typeset using smaller size (fine print).
Both the fonts (‘Akhil HE’ and ‘Akhil’) use exactly similar Latin glyph data, largely similar programming. If you just want to use English, the only difference that you will notice is that in ‘Akhil HE’ you get larger (more) default (optical) leading but about 30% smaller letter size for any point size; while in ‘Akhil’ you get lesser leading and bigger letter size (that is what you get in most English fonts). In fact that is the main reason why we offer ‘Akhil’ when ‘Akhil HE’ has English glyphs as well. The another reason is that the Nagari is a complex script with lot of glyph hence file size of ‘Akhil HE’ is about 130 KB while that of ‘Akhil’ is just 30 KB.
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