Panmana: new Malayalam body text font

Rachana Institute of Typography starts the new year 2021 with the release of a new body-text Malayalam Unicode font named ‘Panmana’.

Fig. 1: ‘Panmana’ font specimen.

The font is named after and dedicated to Prof. Panmana Ramachandran Nair who steadfastly voiced for the original script of Malayalam. It is designed by K.H. Hussain with inputs from Ashok Kumar and CVR and font engineering by Rajeesh (your correspondent); maintained by RIT.

‘Panmana’ is released under Open Font License, free to use and share. Truetype and Web font can be downloaded from the website. A flyer about the font is available. If you spot any issues, please report those in the source repository.

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