Ekushey Puja is a free old-style serif with a literary, Bengali-publishing flavor. The letters pair strong contrast with crisp, slightly formal serifs, while the rounded lowercase keeps the texture warmer and less severe than a textbook Roman.
It feels at home in cultural posters, book covers, magazine cover lines, festival programs, and editorial title pages, where a free font with this mix of ceremony and softness can carry a headline without turning stiff. It also suits short pull quotes or drop caps, because the sharp serif rhythm gives even a few letters a distinctly printed, page-minded presence.
Designed by the contributors of www.ekushey.org This font is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This font is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt), in the COPYING file for more details.
As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
Font family
Ekushey Puja
Font subfamily
Normal
Unique subfamily identification
Ekushey Puja
Full font name
Ekushey Puja Normal
Name table version
0.0.2
Postscript font name
EkusheyPuja
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2005-02-13
Glyph count1272
Units per Em1750
Embedding rightsEmbedding for editing allowed
Family classModern serifs
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals