Lohit fonts explained

Lohit
Familyname:Lohit
Commissioned By:Red Hat
Releasedate:2004
License:OFL

Lohit is a font family designed to cover Indic scripts and released by Red Hat. The Lohit fonts currently cover 11 languages: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu.[1] The fonts were supplied by Modular Infotech and licensed under the GPL. In September 2011, they were retroactively relicensed under the OFL.[2] The Lohit fonts are used as web fonts by some Wikimedia Foundation sites, like Wikipedia, since March 2012.[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Lohit Lohit
  2. https://www.redhat.com/archives/lohit-devel-list/2011-September/msg00000.html [Lohit-devel-list] Relicensing Lohit fonts
  3. [:meta:Wikimedia Foundation Report, March 2012|''Wikimedia Foundation Report'']