Solaiman Lipi, designed by Solaiman Karim, is a free Bangla font with a calm, workhorse tone. The letters carry the flowing headline and rounded, compact forms that make Bengali script feel connected and rhythmic, while the overall drawing stays plain and steady rather than ornate.
That makes it a natural choice for editorial pages, cultural posters, community newsletters, book interiors, and educational materials where a free font needs an unforced, familiar voice. It also suits short headings and section openers, because the script's linked movement gives even brief words a continuous, composed presence.
Designed by: Solaiman Karim <solaiman@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
SolaimanLipi
Font subfamily
Normal
Unique subfamily identification
SolaimanKarim: SolaimanLipi: 2003
Full font name
SolaimanLipi
Name table version
1.0 Thu June 13 17:00:00 2005
Postscript font name
SolaimanLipi
Manufacturer name
Solaiman Karim
Designer
Solaiman Karim
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2002-08-23
Revision1
Glyph count581
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for preview & printing allowed
Family classNo classification
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals