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Introduction - RaghuKannada

C-DAC Mumbai presents "Raghu"- a series of OpenType fonts in 9 Indic scripts for
12 Indian languages. These fonts named as RaghuHindi, RaghuTamil etc.  have been
designed,  developed and realised through the efforts of the following people of
C-DAC Mumbai who worked for project IndiX, funded by TDIL Programme,  Department
of   Information   Technology,   Ministry   of  Communications  and  Information
Technology, Govt. of India.

Font Design Team:

Prof. R. K. Joshi, Vinay Saynekar, Rajith Kumar  K.  M.,  Omkar  Shende,  Sarang
Kulkarni,  Amresh  Mondkar,  Jui  Mhatre,  Supriya  Kharkar, Kruti Dalvi, Nirmal
Biswas, Seema Mangaonkar, Riddhi Joshi, Lokesh Karekar.

Technical Team:

Dr. Alka Irani, Vinod Kumar, Sandeep Rao, D.S. Dixit, Ajit Joshi, Keyur  Shroff.

Language Co-ordination Team:

Gracy Abreo, Rekha Sharma, Rekha Nair, Menaka Arumugam.

Technical Support:

ITSS (IT Systems and Solutions), Jitendra Mandalia (Graphics).

RaghuKannada  is  a digital font, in OpenType Format using Unicode standards and
is based on  visual  syllable  standard  of  IndiX  Compugraphy,  for  creating,
editing, viewing and printing text in Kannada script for Kannada language.

RaghuKannada  font  Original Version 1.00 (2005) has been designed and developed
by Prof. R. K. Joshi (TypeFont Design Director, Visiting Design Specialist at C-
DAC  Mumbai)  in association with Mr. Omkar Shende (TypeFont Designer), assisted
by Ms. Seema Mangaonka, Ms. Jui Mhatre, Ms.  Supriya  Kharkar  at  C-DAC  Mumbai
under  IndiX2,  Project  funded  by  TDIL  Programme,  Department of Information
Technology, Ministry of Communications  and  Information  Technology,  Govt.  of
India.

In  RaghuKannada  font  the  sufficient number of glyphs have been provided. The
designed letterforms of RaghuKannada font  in  Kannada  script,  have  a  strong
contrast  in  thick  &  thin  strokes  and acquire a traditional look with thick
rhythmic curves at the base. This font generally takes care of written syllables
for Kannada language text using Kannada script.

The actual font is available, among other places, from:

http://www.cdacmumbai.in/projects/indix


Copyright

RaghuKannada  font  Original  Version  1.00  (2005) by Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing, Mumbai.

RaghuKannada font Original Version 1.00 (2005)  has been released under GNU  GPL
Version 2.


Usage

Using  RaghuKannada  font  to  its full potential, requires a text layout system
capable of recognizing Unicode standard and  reordering  as  well  as  combining
characters according to the visual syllable standard of IndiX Compugraphy. Refer
to the standard  available  on  website  http://www.cdacmumbai.in/projects/indix
RaghuKannada  is  to  be  used  for  continuous text in Kannada language. And is
recommended to be used in minimum 14pt. size on screen and 11pt. size on  paper.


DISCLAIMER

RAGHUKANNADA  FONT  ORIGINAL VERSION 1.00 (2005) HAS BEEN RELEASED UNDER GNU GPL
VERSION 2, FOR ITS USAGE, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE ENTIRE RISK  AND
THE  FULL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USAGE OF RAGHUKANNADA FONT, IN PARTS OR IN FULL,
AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF  RAGHUKANNADA  FONT  LIES  WITH  THE  USER.
SHOULD  THE  FONT  PROVE  DEFECTIVE IN ANY RESPECT IN INSTALLATION, OPERATION OR
OTHERWISE, THE USER ASSUMES ALL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE SAME AND BEARS THE COST
OF  ANY  NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION (AND NOT THE FONT DESIGN TEAM
MEMBERS OR ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTORS FROM OTHER  INDIX  TEAMS  AT  C-DAC,  MUMBAI).
UNDER  NO  CIRCUMSTANCES, MAY FONT DESIGN TEAM AND/OR ANY OTHER TEAM INVOLVED IN
INDIX PROJECT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE,  LOST  DATA
OR  ANY  OTHER  DAMAGES,  EITHER  DIRECT  OR  INDIRECT,  CAUSED  BY  USING  THIS
RAGHUKANNADA FONT.