Tuesday, September 8, 2009

New Malayalam Font for OS X

Thanks to Vinod Prabhakaran for alerting us to the availability of a new, free OS X font and keyboard for Malayalam. You can get it here:

http://sites.google.com/site/macmalayalam/

Readers who know this script are encouraged to give it a try and provide feedback to its creators.
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5 comments:

  1. goofySeptember 9, 2009 at 7:43:00 AM MDT

    This font seems to be the same as the Rachana font you wrote about on Feb 3 2007. It doesn't render properly, here's a screenshot:

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3511/3903180773_3d515d6b8f_o.png

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  2. Tom GeweckeSeptember 9, 2009 at 9:12:00 AM MDT

    goofy -- How about if you look at this page using Firefox?

    http://sites.google.com/site/macmalayalam/home/font-test-page

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  3. goofySeptember 9, 2009 at 9:17:00 AM MDT

    Yes, in Firefox it looks fine. But weirdly, the text I see in Safari doesn't look like the image of the "Imperfect rendering in Safari". It's rendered worse.

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  4. UnknownApril 29, 2012 at 8:09:00 AM MDT

    I am using Leopard, Safari 5.0.6. have installed rachana for mac. Neither safari nor firefox (3x, or 12) can display the font correctly. I have tried all that I could, but sadly, the result has been very bad. any other solution?

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  5. Tom GeweckeApril 29, 2012 at 9:08:00 AM MDT

    nmpost -- try using the font at

    http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/

    Time to upgrade your OS, nobody has time to fix things that are 5 years behind.

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