Indus script font
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| Designer(s) | National Fund for Mohenjo-daro |
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| Date created | 2016 |
| Date released | 2017 |
| License | Proprietary |
Indus script font is a Private Use Areas (PUA) font, developed by National Fund for Mohenjo-daro and launched on International Conference on Mohenjo-daro & Indus Valley Civilisation on 8 February 2017.[1]
Development
The Indus Script Font was developed based on an Indus script corpus compiled by the prominent Sindhologist Asko Parpola in his research book Deciphering the Indus Script, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521430791. There are 1839 signs on various seals found at Mohenjo-daro. These signs are used by researchers and archaeologists as image based. This font has been used in all kinds of computational word processors in text format. Mr. Amar Fayaz Buriro, a language engineer, and Mr. Shabir Kumbhar, a developer of fonts, were tasked by the National Fund for Mohenjo-daro to develop this font, and they completed this task and launched it at an international conference on Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Valley Civilization on 8 February 2017.[2][3][4]
References
- ^ "A Free Complete Indus Font Package Available". www.harappa.com.
- ^ "Corpus by Asko Parpola". Mohenjodaro.
- ^ "Indus script". www.omniglot.com.
- ^ "All Signs of Indus Script Has Been Converted Into Font -". February 27, 2017.