The Chandas font contains 4347 glyphs: 325 half-forms, 960 half-forms context-variations, 2743 ligature-signs. Though this font was primarily designed for writing Sanskrit, it may be used for all languages written in the Devanagari script, including Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali. The font is notable for containing a particularly extensive set of conjunct ligatures for Sanskrit and also supporting Vedic accents unavailable in other Devanagari fonts at the time of its release. Siddhanta supports both usual Ṛg Veda and Sāmaveda accents. Latin and Cyrillic glyph sets (based on DejaVu font) can be used according to free license. It can be included in free and commercial software distributives as free addition, without any additional payment for it. The limitation of commercial usage means that the font cannot be sold as commercial product but can be used as font in publishing, printing and retailing of other commercial products.
Siddhanta font software (including font variations and Vaidika IME) is published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
The font can be used as samples for learning the Devanagari writing.
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Siddhanta is a calligraphically precise and realistic font - there are no gaps between half-forms and full forms of characrets. Siddhanta is a manually hinted true type font - it is good for use both in screen and in print its line weight is good for eyes Siddhanta supports Unicode 6.0 standard and is compatible with Intranslator 2003 and partly compatible with Chandas font The font also contains Latin and Cyrillic character sets and can be used for Sanskrit transliteration Siddhanta contains Vedic and Devanagari Extended Unicode character sets.
Siddhanta supports many ligature variations and script variations Calcutta, Bombay and Nepali styles Siddhanta uses vertical ligature composition due to this feature it supports the largest amount of Devanagari ligatures The font can be used for Sanskrit, Vedic, Hindi, Nepali and other languages which use the Devanagari script.