Mangal Font is first Indian Open Source font,tends to be most used font for Devanagari Script on interenet being Unicode compatible and rendered by Microsoft products.Mangal Font was created at C-DAC under leadership of Typorapher & Professor Raghunath k. Joshi. Microsoft adopted this font version 1.20 for its windows 2000 onward products .Windows XP, Windows XP SP2 renders this font along with true type outline.Mangal Font has 675 Glyphs Mangal is an OpenType font for the Indic script - Devanagari. It is based on Unicode, contains TrueType outlines and has been designed for use as a UI font.[1]
Mangal name was chosen by the typographer Professor Raghunath k. Joshi since it Mangal was his wife's name.
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Font Installation Guide for Mangal Font