(473K 7-Zip archive)Almost exactly one year since the first release, Garava was thoroughly edited and enhanced, taking on-board suggestions made at that time. Improvements in the latest version of FontCreator made my task less tedious, as this is a large font with seven typestyles. The new alignment tools and enhanced font validation highlighted weakness in the initial release. There is always room for further improvement, but I hope that this latest version is now closer to the quality of products from commercial type foundries. Sample page
It was designed for body text in Buddhist Publications. It has a generous x-height and economical copyfit. "Garava" is a Pali word meaning "reverence."
A full range of Latin characters means it can be used for Pali, Sanskrit, Romanised Indic scripts, nearly all European languages, and Vietnamese. A basic Greek character set, and a wide range of symbols extend its usefulness to other academic fields such as maths and science. Maths and currency symbols are designed on the figure width, while other symbols, arrows, and geometric shapes are a uniform width and align with the Caps height wherever the design permits. Superscripts align with the tops of figures, while subscripts bisect the baseline. Character Map
Besides the expected regular, italic, bold, and bold italic styles, the Garava font family includes a Heavy typestyle, Small Capitals, and Bold Small Capitals.
