devanagari-fonts 0.2.0

Devanagari font discovery, preview paths, and on-demand font installation.

devanagari-fonts

devanagari-fonts provides Devanagari font discovery, a small Python API for locating installed font files, and a command-line installer for downloading font families on demand.

The PyPI package is intentionally small. It includes the Python API, command-line tool, font registry metadata, and the Shobhika font family as a default bundled font. Other font families are downloaded into a user cache directory when requested.

Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install devanagari-fonts

Install from GitHub:

pip install git+https://github.com/nishantaMishra/devanagari-fonts.git

Usage

List available bundles and font families:

devanagari-fonts list

Install a bundle:

devanagari-fonts install core
devanagari-fonts install noto
devanagari-fonts install display
devanagari-fonts install full

Install a single font family:

devanagari-fonts install hind
devanagari-fonts install akshar
devanagari-fonts install noto-sans-devanagari

Use installed fonts from Python:

from devanagari_fonts import available_families, families, font_path, fonts

print(available_families())  # all registry fonts
print(families())            # installed fonts
print(fonts("Hind"))

path = font_path("Hind", style="Regular")
print(path)

Downloaded fonts are stored in the user cache directory. To see the active cache directory:

devanagari-fonts cache-dir

Each font family keeps its upstream license file alongside the downloaded font files.

Available Fonts

Show registry font families

• Akshar
• Alkatra
• Amiko
• Amita
• Anek Devanagari
• Annapurna SIL
• Arya
• Asar
• Bakbak One
• Baloo 2
• Bhavuka
• Biryani
• Cambay
• Dekko
• Eczar
• Ek Mukta
• Gajraj One
• Glegoo
• Gotu
• Halant
• Hind
• IBM Plex Sans Devanagari
• Inknut Antiqua
• Jaini
• Jaini Purva
• Jaldi
• Kadwa
• Kalam
• Karma
• Khand
• Khula
• Kurale
• Laila
• Lohit Devanagari
• Martel
• Martel Sans
• Matangi
• Modak
• Mukta
• Noto Sans
• Noto Sans Devanagari
• Noto Sans Devanagari UI
• Noto Serif Devanagari
• Palanquin
• Palanquin Dark
• Playpen Sans Deva
• Poppins
• Pragati Narrow
• Rajdhani
• Ranga
• Rhodium Libre
• Rozha One
• Sahitya
• Sarala
• Sarpanch
• Shobhika-1.05
• Sitara
• Sumana
• Sura
• Teko
• Tillana
• Tiro Devanagari Hindi
• Tiro Devanagari Marathi
• Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit
• Vesper Libre
• Yantramanav
• Yatra One

API

• available_families(): return all registry font family names.
• families(): return installed font family names.
• fonts(family=None): return installed Font records for all fonts, or for one family.
• font_files(family=None): return filesystem paths for installed font files.
• get_font(family, name=None, style=None): return a single matching installed Font.
• font_path(family, name=None, style=None): return the filesystem path for a single matching installed font.
• cache_dir(): return the font download cache directory.

License

The Python package code is distributed under the MIT License. Bundled fonts are distributed under their own upstream licenses, included beside each font family.