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Shobhika specimen from ParaType

A free, open-source OpenType serif covering Devanagari, Latin and Cyrillic, developed at IIT Bombay's Science and Heritage Initiative with over 1,600 Devanagari glyphs and support for Vedic accents.

About

Built upon Yashomudra for its Devanagari component and PT Serif for Latin, Shobhika includes more than 1,100 conjunct consonants alongside extended Roman characters required for Sanskrit transliteration. A subset of mathematical symbols is also provided, making it suited to scholars working across scientific and humanistic disciplines. Released under the SIL Open Font Licence in two weights, Regular and Bold.

Classification

Based on PT Serif (a transitional serif) for its Latin component, with a Devanagari component derived from Yashomudra; the overall family reads as a scholarly serif designed for multilingual academic use.

Weights

RegularBold

Languages

LatinCyrillicDevanagariSanskrit

Tags

devanagarimultilingualopen-sourceacademicsanskritscholarlyunicodeserif

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