Lohit2 project created to make font developers life easy by providing them easy to reuse efficient and effective open type table. Lohit is open source font family for Indian language used as a default font in number of open source distribution.

1. Lohit2 : Project to create reusable OpenType
tables for complex script fonts
Pravin Satpute
Internationalization Team
Red Hat

2. AAggeennddaa
● Facts
● Motivation
● Improvements
● Present status
● Q & A

3. LLaacckk ooff SSttaannddaarrddiizzaattiioonn !!!!

4. CCoommppaarriissoonn ooff ttwwoo MMaarraatthhii nneewwssppaappeerrss

5. NNuummbbeerrss ????
LLaattiinn VVss CCoommpplleexx ssccrriipptt ffoonnttss

6. FFoonntt iiss BBlleenndd ooff ddiiffffeerreenntt ddoommaaiinnss
● LLiinngguuiissttiicc
● Language and script knowledge
● AArrtt
● Designing of glyphs
● TTeecchhnniiccaall
● Technical knowledge of Open Type fonts

7. MMoottiivvaattiioonnss bbeehhiinndd LLoohhiitt22

8. MMoottiivvaattiioonnss bbeehhiinndd LLoohhiitt22
● Unified open type layout shaper (Harfbuzz-NG)
● Lots of new font projects for Indian script.
● Lohits 10 years experience as default font.

9. WWhhaatt iiss LLoohhiitt22??

10. WWhhaatt iiss LLoohhiitt22??
● Efficient and effective OpenType tables.
● Adhere to standards.
● Easy to reuse.
● Easy to Test.

11. SSttaannddaarrdd LLoohhiitt22 ffoolllloowwss

12. SSttaannddaarrddss
● Unicode
● OpenType specifications
● AGL – Adobe Glyph List
● Language standards from Governments.

13. IImmpprroovveemmeennttss iinn DDeevvaannaaggaarrii
GSUB Tables
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Lohit
Lohit2
Test cases
1000
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
Lohit
Lohit2

14. IImmpprroovveemmeennttss iinn MMaallaayyaallaamm
GSUB Tables
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Lohit
Lohit2
Glyphs
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
Lohit
Lohit2

15. CCuurrrreenntt ssttaattuuss
● CCoommpplleetteedd
● Devanagari, Marathi and Nepali
● Gujarati
● Malayalam
● Gurmukhi
● Tamil
● Assamese, Bengali

16. CCuurrrreenntt ssttaattuuss
● OOnnggooiinngg
● Oriya
● RReemmaaiinniinngg
● Telugu
● Kannada

17. QQuueessttiioonnss??

18. TThhaannkk yyoouu !!!!
psatpute AT redhat DOT com

19. RReeffeerreenncceess
● https://fedorahosted.org/lohit/
● http://pravin-s.blogspot.in/2013/08/project-creating-standard-and-reu
sable.html
● https://github.com/pravins/lohit