Lohit

Summary
The project goal is to improve existing offerings of the fonts - making sure the Lohit fonts deliver the best available quality and functions to the community.

History
In 2004, Red Hat has released five Indian language fonts as open source licensed under the GPL. The fonts named Lohit which means Red in Sanskrit. Currently, the font family supports 11 Indian languages: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and are available as TrueType fonts. Now, Fedora Project and its contributors took the responsibility to consolidate the further efforts and improvements of the Lohit fonts.

RPM
Fedora users can install rpms for Lohit fonts with the following command

For Fedora 7 and earlier yum install fonts-

From Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 yum install lohit-fonts- Note in Fedora 8, the Lohit fonts are installed by default.

For Fedora 11 and above yum install lohit--fonts

CVS
Anonymous CVS access export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.fedoraproject.org:/cvs/font cvs login cvs co lohit Contributor CVS access export CVSROOT=:ext:cvs.fedora.redhat.com:/cvs/font export CVS_RSH=ssh cvs co lohit

Current release: 

lohit-fonts-2.3.8.tar.gz 

Previous releases:

 (351.2 KB) 

 (349.6 KB) 

 (349.3 KB) 

The Lohit fonts are included in Fedora. In Fedora 7 and earlier the source package was called fonts-indic. Since Fedora 8 and onwards it is called lohit-fonts.

Contributors information

 * Please submit bugs and patches into lohit-fonts bugzilla component.
 * Edit fonts using fontforge . It is available in Fedora repositories.

yum install fontforge


 * Reuse glyphs if possible - this is the best way to keep the same look and feel, and it saves efforts.
 * All changes should be under the agreement of  CLA . Please read at   Howto  if you need help on signing the CLA.