The Adobe Bengali fonts are a welcome addition to the canon of digital Bengali fonts as an alternative to Linotype Bengali and its clones, which have dominated much of the publication industry for the past several decades. The fonts include both proportional and tabular numerals in Bengali and European styles. The designer has provided careful placement of all vowel signs and modifiers. The length of the ikars-િ and ી-varies automatically according to adjacent letter or conjunct width. A full set of Bengali conjuncts is included in the fonts to provide the most natural representation of Bengali text.

The Adobe Bengali fonts comply with the Unicode standard for character encoding and leverage OpenType® layout to produce correct script shaping and accurate mark placement. Careful attention to shaping and details allow these typefaces to also serve well as display types at larger sizes. The letter construction is based on traditional Bengali calligraphy and features a contrast distribution somewhat lower than the norm so as to maintain strong, legible forms at small sizes. The primary intended usage - for printed outputs, particularly continuous text settings - guided the design direction. This type family was designed to harmonize with Adobe’s other Brahmic fonts, both in terms of apparent size and style, to ensure that this suite of typefaces families can be typeset together as a system.

The Adobe Bengali typeface was designed by Neelakash Kshetrimayum, with Bengali script expert Fiona Ross consulting on the design.

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