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Today the Sikher Project released GurbaniDB, where you can download 52 translations and 22 transliterations of Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji under a CC-BY-NC-SA license.

As far as I can tell these are entirely machine generated and of pretty poor quality – but that’s the point, these are destined to be used as starting points on a collaboritive effort to create actual usable translations and transliterations. Sign up to help here.

They suggest the use of the Code2000 font, which is actually a pretty ugly Shareware (meaning it costs $5 to use) font. It’s generally uneeded to use these giant Pan-Unicode fonts, as most modern operating systems include the proper regional fonts already. If you have to use one of these I would suggest either GNU Freefont or GNU Unifont. Even better than using these would be to get the regional Unicode fonts for the language you are using, for Gurmukhi the best one is SAAB which is released under the GPL.

So definitely check out this cool project, donate some money or time towards it if you think it’s useful (I do)

Going around the web browsing various Sikh and Punjabi websites you run into a lot of different Punjabi fonts used all over the place. To that end I’ve put together this fontpack of all the various Punjabi (and Punjabi-ish) fonts that one would regularly run into around the web. Download link, File list , and some advice after the break.

The included files are:

• Akaash-Bold.ttf
• Akaash.ttf
• AmbarKalmi.ttf
• AmbarLight-Bold.ttf
• AmbarLight.ttf
• AmbarNarrow.ttf
• AmbarNeon.ttf
• AmbarOutlined.ttf
• AmbarRaised.ttf
• AmbarShadow.ttf
• AmbarSlim.ttf
• AmbarUbhri.ttf
• AMRHINDI.TTF
• Amrita_1.ttf
• AMRLIPI.TTF
• AMRLIP_L.TTF
• AMRLIP_S.TTF
• AMR_HEAV.TTF
• AMR_L_B.TTF
• AMR_NEON.TTF
• AMR_OUT.TTF
• Anmo000.ttf
• AnmolUni-Bold.ttf
• AnmolUni.ttf
• AnmolUniBani-Bold.ttf
• AnmolUniBani.ttf
• AnmolUniBaniHeavy.ttf
• AnmolUniHeavy.ttf
• ANMOL_.TTF
• ANMOL_B.TTF
• ANMOL_HE.TTF
• ANMOL_K.TTF
• ANMOL_L.TTF
• ANMOL_OU.TTF
• ANMOL_RA.TTF
• ANMOL_S.TTF
• ANMOL_T.TTF
• ANMOL_U.TTF
• ANM_L_BO.TTF
• ANM_NEON.TTF
• ANM_THTI.TTF
• ChatrikUni.ttf
• GUAK_TH.TTF
• guiigs__.ttf
• GURAKHAR.TTF
• GURAKH_H.TTF
• GURAKH_L.TTF
• GURAKH_S.TTF
• GURBLIPI.TTF
• GURBLI_L.TTF
• GURB_B.TTF
• GURB_L_B.TTF
• Gurb_rg.ttf
• GURHINDI.TTF
• Gurmi___.ttf
• GURROMAN.TTF
• PNAM0ntt.ttf
• PUNAdhunikB1.ttf
• PUNAdhunikN1.ttf
• raavi.ttf
• hsukhmani.TTF

That’s 60 fonts for your enjoyment!

While I have included all of these fonts for conveniences sake, I would not suggest you install all of these fonts if you are using Microsoft Windows, as the more fonts you have installed, the longer your boot-up times and load times on certain applications. Just install the fonts you need as you need them!

If there are some fonts you think are missing and should be included, either link to them in the comments, email them to me, or upload them to the download section and I will update the pack accordingly