CDAC-GISTSurekh-OpenType is an OpenType font for Devanagari script, developed by GIST Group of C-DAC. The languages written using the Devanagari script - Hindi, Konkani, Marathi, etc are supported by this font. The special features of the Devanagari script, namely the 'reph', 'rakar', 'akhands' (conjuncts), 'nukta', reordering and repositioning of characters, below-base forms, half forms are implemented in this font. The glyph set of this font have been optimized to get the best performance. This document enumerates the various features provided by this font.

This font is aesthetically developed specially for the purpose of content creation and display. The readability of the font is greatly enhanced due to the uniformity of the shapes of the glyphs of the font. The font is embeddable which means that static web content can be developed using this font and displayed in a browser without any download.

Possible target application areas:

·         Developing Indian language web content

·         Developing desktop applications to support Indian Languages

·         Developing Unicode based Indian language search engines

·         Developing Indian language corpus for various language tools