| Font Summary |
| Name |
Year |
Use |
Fam
size |
ASC |
Unicode |
Used
in |
Notes |
Cont
subs |
Font
Page |
Links |
| Num |
Lat |
Gur |
Dev |
Example |
N |
F.I.U. |
Soc |
| High-legibility - Machine |
|---|
| Bulara |
2009 |
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9 |
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High readability font with body and display variants - also has hollow and bordered variants for display uses. |
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| Gurvetica |
2009 |
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48 |
 |
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Designed specifically for readability. Includes Roman characters that match style and size for each font. |
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| Gurvetica A |
2009 |
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10 |
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As Gurvetica but ASCII range has Gurmukhi for those without Gurmukhi keyboard layouts. |
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| PG Serif |
2021 |
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2 |
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Roman-style and slab serif fonts based upon Gurvetica. Suitable for both body and display uses. Slab serif font light and highly legible. Roman serif font standing out. |
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| PG Serif SL |
2021 |
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1 |
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Slab serif font based upon Gurvetica with Latin characters in the ASCII range. Suitable for both body and display uses. Slab serif font light and highly legible. |
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| Art |
|---|
| abstract |
| Dekho |
2012 |
 |
5 |
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Very stylised display font, based on Art Deco, making it good for medium-sized font work as well as display work. |
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| Dekho Naveen |
2012 |
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5 |
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Even more stylised display font, based on Art Deco, making it good for medium-sized font work as well as display work. Latin range is kerned. |
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| Dilli |
2021 |
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1 |
 |
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Very stylised, Ultra-Bold, Extended display font designed for work in logos and similar designs. |
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| Dwarka |
2013 |
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3 |
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Monolinear Gurmukhi font in the style of Gujarati. Legible enough for body-font work and for display. Intelligent glyph coding in font. |
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| Magaz |
2008 |
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5 |
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Very stylised display font, based around low number of horizontal lines, making it good for small font work as well as display work. |
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| Modhera |
2013 |
|
5 |
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Very stylised, 'rounded-serifed' Gurmukhi font in the style of Gujarati. Highly legible with many contextual alternative forms of sihari and bihari. Intelligent glyph coding in font. |
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| Patiala |
2021 |
|
3 |
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Based upon PG Ek Jot, this font is the stylised essence of hand-drawn Gurmukhi with a number of embellishments and additions. Legible enough for body-font work and for display. |
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| Rupe |
2009 |
|
22 |
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Based upon GHW Dukandar, this font is the stylised essence (ਰੂਪ) of practical, stripped-down Gurmukhi. Legible enough for body-font work and for display, includes bordered and hollow variants. |
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| Thikriwala |
2021 |
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6 |
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Crisp, legible, display font with openface options |
. |
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| Tsheg |
2012 |
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6 |
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Stylised display font, Tibetan (Uchan)-styled Gurmukhi Tee-shirt/tattoo font. Over 600 glyphs. |
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| Uttar |
2012 |
|
9 |
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Stylised display font, providing part-way step to Tibetan-styled Gurmukhi. |
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| imitation |
Gurmukhi
Old Letterpress |
2012 |
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4 |
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This is before Gurmukhi settled down to the single Bani style in the late 20th century and has some interesting characters. |
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| Punjabi Typewriter |
2009 |
|
3 |
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Monospaced, mechanical typewriter with its limitations imitated in this font. |
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| fun |
| Adami |
2013 |
|
1 |
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Stylised, 'fun', 'party' block font with angular cut-outs. Punjabi take on Adamski. Intelligent glyph coding in font. |
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| Blob |
2021 |
|
2 |
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Letters fashioned from a gelatinous material that has started to flow under its own weight producing smaller counters and thicker bottoms. |
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| Circuit |
2021 |
|
4 |
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Gurmukhi characters in the form of double copper tracks on printed circuit boards. |
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| Circuit Small |
2021 |
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4 |
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Gurmukhi characters in the form of single copper tracks on printed circuit boards. |
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| Dhobi Ghat |
2022 |
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2 |
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Gurmukhi characters in the form of washing hanging from a line. |
|
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| DIN 1451 |
2013 |
|
2 |
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German international standard for road signs and so on - Very early design in the standard. Intelligent glyph coding in font. Latin letters and numbers in ASCII range. |
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| DIN 1451 A |
2013 |
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2 |
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German international standard for road signs and so on - Very early design in the standard. Gurmukhi glyphs in ASCII range, Latin->Gurmukhi numbers - . Intelligent glyph coding in font. |
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| Gubara |
2013 |
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4 |
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Very stylised, 'fun', 'party' font. Balloons form letters, helped by string and weights. String in different thicknesses and additonal balloons only variant supplied to help colouring. Intelligent glyph coding in font. |
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| Jashan |
2013 |
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1 |
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Very stylised, 'fun', 'party' lively font - Punjabi version modelled on the Party font. Intelligent glyph coding in font. |
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| Julaf |
2013 |
|
1 |
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Very stylised, 'fun', 'party' curly font - Punjabi version modelled on the Curlz font. Intelligent glyph coding in font. |
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- |
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| Karmic Sanj |
2008 |
|
7 |
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Handwritten body/display font simulating someone with a felt-tipped pen trying to do a neat job. |
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| Khanna |
2021 |
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3 |
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Irregular outline making it look as though it has been cut from thick card with a sharp knife - short, straight cuts. |
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| Khicho |
2021 |
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1 |
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Pulled-Gum-style font. If you had chewing gum that you pulled out into lengths and then formed Gurmukhi letters with them, this is what you would end up with. |
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| Pachami |
2020 |
|
1 |
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Wild-West-style Slab Serif font. |
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| Parda |
2021 |
|
2 |
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Wedge-shaped font in three varieties. |
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| Pixel |
2021 |
|
6 |
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Based upon Dot-Matrix printers and displays. Legible enough for body-font work and for display. Includes two densities of square dots as well as round dots representing screen pixels, heat-sensitive paper pixels and pin-matrix printers. |
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| Plotter |
2020 |
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3 |
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Plotter printer style font with paper-absorption blobs at the nodes of each line thus creating a unique effect. |
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| Rangdar |
2013 |
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8 |
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Multi-coloured font - size and position font with font 1 and then select 3 or four colour versions. Intelligent glyph coding in font. |
|
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| Rocket |
2021 |
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1 |
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In the style of the official NASA logo (which, it appears from the original style book, only consisted of the word NASA) but here, extended it into the Gurmukhi Unicode range. |
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| Script/ Stylised Hand Writing |
|---|
| Choti |
2012 |
|
12 |
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Short-tail-length handwritten script special body text Similar to Raajaa but with short tails. |
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|
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| Lanma |
2008 |
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2 |
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Long-tailed handwritten display script with full-length tailed paer characters for tailed characters. Suitable for certificates and other special documents. |
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| Raaj |
2008 |
|
7 |
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Medium-tail-length handwritten script special body text. Unicode Gurmukhi range uses paer characters that modify the tails where appropriate. |
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| Raajaa |
2008 |
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7 |
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Tailless variant of Raaj, suitable for body text where space is limited |
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| Real Handwriting/painting |
|---|
| GHW Adhiapak |
2008 |
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14 |
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Handwritten text from a Punjabi Teacher, born and brought up in the Punjab, now resident in the UK. Combines standard character forms with speed, fluidity and humanity. |
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| PG Bhojanshala |
2021 |
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1 |
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Practical, small, fast handwriting, when you need to write a lot in a small space. |
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| GHW Dukandar |
2008 |
|
5 |
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Practical, no-nonsense, fast handwriting, just like your grandmother back in the Punjab writes. |
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| PG Ek Jot |
2021 |
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2 |
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Hand-drawn sign-writing in chalk on blackboard, suitable for shop notices, large headings et cetera. |
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| GHP Full |
2013 |
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6 |
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Hand-painted sign-writing, complete with shadows, suitable for shop signs, banners, Tee-shirts, large headings et cetera. |
|
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| PG Mansa |
2021 |
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2 |
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Fluid handwritten text with a distinct left-handed slant. |
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| PG Muskan |
2021 |
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4 |
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Handwritten text available in two styles - handwritten and pen - both in two weights. |
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| GHW Penti Akhari |
2012 |
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10 |
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Late 16th, early 17th century handwritten Gurmukhi, just like you would find in important texts of the day. Includes 4 Larivar styles. |
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| GHW Purani Primer PDL |
2013 |
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1 |
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Fancy, handwriting based upon a primer supplied by Punjab Digital Library. Contains many versions of letters according to context - all selected automatically in Unicode but all accessible through ASCII using code sequences described on its own page. |
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| Transliteration |
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| Iragan |
2009 |
|
8 |
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Converts Devanagari to Gurmukhi so Gurmukhi readers can access Devanagari texts online. |
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| Dave |
2009 |
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20 |
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Converts Gurmukhi to Devanagari so Devanagari readers can access Gurmukhi texts online. |
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