Jomolhari is a

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Uchen font created by Christopher J. Fynn, freely available under the

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. It supports text encoded using the

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and the Chinese national standard for encoding characters of the Tibetan script (GB/T20524-2006 "Tibetan Coded Character Set"). The design of the font is based on Bhutanese manuscript examples and it is suitable for text in

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, Dzongkha and other languages written in the Tibetan script. In

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, it is metrically compatible with

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The Jomolhari font is available in

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format using

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outlines. It is distributed under the terms of the

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. It may be downloaded from

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Free Tibetan Fonts Project
on the

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site and several other places. The

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project files containing the source of the OpenType lookups in the font are also available on the Savannah site. It is also available in deb and

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packages for Linux.

Usage

* The Jomolhari font is included with many

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including: **

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** CentOS **

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**Dzongkha Linux * Jomolhari is used as the principal font of several Bhutanese newspapers for their Dzongkha language editions or sections including: **

Bhutan Observer The ''Bhutan Observer'' was Bhutan's first private bilingual newspaper. It was launched as a private limited company by parent company Bhutan Media Services (BMS), and began publishing on June 2, 2006, in Thimphu. Its Dzongkha edition was called ...

Bhutan Times The ''Bhutan Times'' is Bhutan's first privately owned newspaper, and only the second in the country after the government owned and autonomous ''Kuensel''. Its first edition, with 32 pages, hit newsstands on April 30, 2006, with a high-profile in ...

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*Jomolhari have been the default Tibetan script font being used by

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(including Wikipedia). This was later replaced by BabelStone Tibetan Slim font. * Jomolhari is the font used for the website of the

National Library of Bhutan The National Library of Bhutan (NLB) (Dzongkha: ''Druk Gyelyong Pedzö'' འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དཔེ་མཛོད།), Thimphu, Bhutan was established in 1967 for the purpose of "preservation and promotion of the ric ...

for their Dzongkha language pages. * Jomolhari is also available for typing Dzongkha or Tibetan text in Google Docs.

Derivative works

Jomolhari ID was a

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of Jomolhari to create a font that worked in

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CS3 and CS4, which lacked specific support for Tibetan script. This font included additional general OpenType lookups and features in the font enabling it to work in these versions of InDesign. These additional lookups were later incorporated into the standard Jomolhari font.

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also created a fork of Jomolhari to add extended support for Tibetan: BabelStone Tibetan. This font added some additional Tibetan characters encoded in a later version of Unicode, added more clusters especially for writing Tibetan shorthand contractions and transcribing Tangut.

References

External links

Free Tibetan Fonts Project

Jomolhari FlipFont installer for Samsung devices

Tibetan Fonts
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Digital Tibetan Wiki

Jomolhari on Google Fonts
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