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【Akaya Kanadaka】专为印度卡纳达文设计的现代显示字体 英文 手写 无衬线 OFL


阿卡亚（Akaya）是一款支持卡纳达文、泰卢固文及拉丁文字的实验性单一字重显示字体。该字体以阿卡亚·卡纳达卡（Akaya Kanadaka）和阿卡亚·泰利维加拉（Akaya Telivigala）两个独立字库文件形式发布，二者共享同一套拉丁文字符集。


语言支持说明：阿卡亚·卡纳达卡支持改革后的卡纳达文字符集，其语言覆盖范围包括现代卡纳达语及基础梵语。对于当代使用卡纳达文书写的少数民族语言（如图鲁语、孔卡尼语等）的特殊字符，当前版本尚未完全兼容。待相关字符标准获正式认可并更新后，我们将对字体进行扩展支持。


阿卡亚（Akaya）拉丁文字符集支持以下语言：南非荷兰语、巴斯克语、布列塔尼语、加泰罗尼亚语、克罗地亚语（拉丁字母）、捷克语、丹麦语、荷兰语、英语、爱沙尼亚语、法罗语、芬兰语、法语、盖尔语、加告兹语（拉丁字母）、德语、匈牙利语、冰岛语、印尼语、爱尔兰语、意大利语、爪哇语（拉丁字母）、卡舒比语、卡纳达语、拉脱维亚语、立陶宛语、马来语（拉丁字母）、摩尔多瓦语（拉丁字母）、挪威语、波兰语、葡萄牙语、罗马尼亚语（拉丁字母）、萨米语（北萨米语、伊纳里萨米语及吕勒萨米语）、塞尔维亚语（拉丁字母）、西里西亚语、索布语、斯洛伐克语、斯洛文尼亚语、西班牙语、斯瓦希里语、瑞典语、泰卢固语、土耳其语及瓦隆语。


关于阿卡亚（Akaya）字体：卡纳达文与泰卢固文皆源自高度风格化的卡丹巴文（Kadamba script）。在随后几个世纪中，历代王朝对这两种文字进行了多次重新诠释，其演变趋势日益实用化，大幅简化了结构复杂性。


早期基督教传教士制作首批铅字时进一步推进了这种简化进程。然而他们在改造过程中，为原本以单线结构为主的文字引入了受铜版书法启发的笔触调制技术，这些早期字体的笔触调节遵循水平轴线法则，字母形态呈现几何化、构造化特征。传教士们的这些早期尝试至今仍是最广受认可的文本排印风格。


观察当代卡纳达文与泰卢固文的手写应用场景（如书籍标题、涂鸦及宣传告示），可见一种独特的书法风格反复出现。这种风格与严谨的正式文本样式截然不同：字母形态更具流动性，比例更舒展，其笔触调制与斜向应力呼应拉丁文书法的特征，同时完美适配两种印度文字。阿卡亚字体正是基于这种生动的手写风格创作而成。该风格在卡纳塔克邦经由著名艺术家兼书法家卡马雷什（Kamalesh）推广普及。值得注意的是，尽管这两种文字已发展出各自独立的文字体系，我们仍能从中发现共通的风格特质。


阿卡亚的字形设计尝试采用逆向笔迹（reverse ductus）原理——通过反转每个字符的运笔方向来增强流畅性。根据字母结构特点，同一原理与对比角度应用于阿卡亚拉丁文字母，由此形成其标志性形态的基础。


Akaya is a single weight experimental display typeface in Kannada, Telugu and Latin scripts. Akaya Kanadaka and Akaya Telivigala are made as two separate font files which share a common Latin.


Language Support:Akaya Kanadaka supports the reformed Kannada character set. The language support therefore extends to contemporary Kannada and basic Sanskrit. The peculiarities of minority scripts that use the Kannada script in contemporary use, like Tulu and Konkani, are not yet supported fully and Akaya will be extended once they are accepted and updated.


Akaya's Latin supports Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Croatian (Latin), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Gaelic, Gagauz (Latin), German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Javanese (Latin), Kashubian, Kannada, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay (Latin), Moldovan (Latin), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian (Latin), Sami (Northern, Inari & Lule), Serbian (Latin), Silesian, Sorbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Telugu, Turkish and Walloon.


About Akaya:Kannada and Telugu scripts trace their origins to the highly stylised Kadamba script. Over the following centuries, these scripts were patronised by successive dynasties who reinterpreted this script several times. These interpretations were increasingly pragmatic in nature, stripping off structural complications to a great degree.


This simplification was taken a step further by the early Christian missionaries who made the first lead types for these scripts. However, when they did this, they introduced a copperplate inspired stroke modulation to these characters which were largely monolinear in nature till then. The stroke modulations in these founts followed the horizontal axis. The letter shapes here were geometric and constructed. These early experiments by the missionaries remains the most widely accepted style and works well for text settings.


When one looks around the hand-written Telugu or Kannada landscape today, found on book titles, graffiti or propaganda notices, a recurring calligraphic style is evident. This appears quite distinct from the rigid, formal text styles. The letters’ shapes here are more fluid and proportions more generous. The stroke modulations and the diagonal stress echo Latin calligraphy and work well for both Kannada and Telugu scripts. Akaya is based on this lively hand-written style. This style was popularised in Karnatka by the renouned artist and calligrapher, Kamalesh. It is intesting to find a common style between these two scripts even after they have grown apart with their separate identities.


The letter-shapes for Akaya experimented with reverse ductus, where each character is written with its stroke direction reversed to add fluidity. The same principle and contrast angle is applied in Akaya Latin, depending on the structure of the letter. This is forms the basis for its characteristic shapes.


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本字体以SIL Open Font License 1.1（SIL 开源字型授权版本1.1，简称SIL OFL 或OFL）授权协议发布，这个授权的自由度非常高：


✔ 这款字体无论是个人还是企业都可以自由免费商用，无需知会或者标明原作者。

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✔ 这款字体可以自由修改、改造，但修改或改造后的字体也必须同样以SIL Open Font License 1.1授权公开。


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字体来源出处1：https://github.com/vaishnavimurthy/Akaya-Kanadaka

字体来源出处2：https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Akaya+Kanadaka （需要科学上网才能打开）


下载地址


夸克网盘（超速下载）：https://pan.quark.cn/s/28cce29b3f3d


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