Author's note

Anja1 is a free Bengali display font with lively calligraphic shapes. Its changing stroke widths, coiled endings, open loops, and scattered dot forms give the letters an animated, hand-drawn silhouette that recalls traditional decorative pen lettering and informal painted signs.

Calligraphic Bengali design is the clearest setting for this face, making it well suited to cultural festival posters, music packaging, and illustrated publishing with a folkloric or theatrical subject. The curling shapes can also echo vines, smoke, or richly ornamental borders in children's stories and fantasy graphics, turning the lettering into part of the picture rather than a neutral caption.

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Basic font information

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Generated by Fontographer 4.1
Font family
anja1
Font subfamily
anja1
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 anja1 anja1
Full font name
anja1 anja1
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 04.04.2006
Postscript font name
Anja1anja1

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2006-04-04
Revision1
Glyph count60
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI