Resources

Resources . . .

Here are some resources in four sections that might make learning how to read and write Gurmukhi script easier for you (These correspond to the sections in the menu on the right):

PDFs	Character Reference Sheets; Writing Practice Sheets; Gurmukhi Flash-Cards; Punjabi Numbers; Using Gurmukhi with English words;	PDF
Keyboard Layouts	Keyboard Layout for various OSes;	HTML
Fonts	Gurmukhi Fonts for free download (more than 920,000 fonts downloaded to date); and,	TrueType fonts
Desktop Wall- papers	Gurmukhi Computer Desktop Wallpapers - the word 'Gurmukhi', people's names and so on.	JPEG and PNG images

PDFs . . .

The PDFs (documents with the Adobe Portable Document File format so that they will run on any computer) include character reference sheets, writing practice sheets, flash cards that you can print out, numbers, using Gurmukhi with English and so on.

In the case of the flash cards, you print them out onto card stock and can laminate them so that they last longer. The 4 on one sheet size are suitable for classroom use and the 9 on one sheet are suitable for personal use.

Keyboard Layouts . . .

The Keyboard Layouts are a set of html files allowing you to download the one that is suited to your operating system.

With the file saved in a suitable place such as your desktop, you can call on it any time, even without being online.

Fonts . . .

The TrueType fonts that I have designed all use the Unicode (UTF-8) range and so will work with a properly configured keyboard. In addition, they also have the ASCII mappings onto a normal keyboard, along with some extensions such a small piece of line, unkard and dulunkarday that are offset to the left if you are using a font with tails and so on.There is a range of 139 fonts in 11 main families with more than 920,000 font files downloaded to date ranging from the highly functional Gurvetica, the stylish Raaj, Raajaa and Lanma fonts, through the informal Karmic Sanj font and Gurmukhi HandWritten (GHW) Dunkandar and GHW Adhiapak fonts, the display fonts Bulara and Rupe (which include true hollow fonts), though the monospaced Punjabi Typewriter fonts to the stylised Magaz font. These are all in a number of different weights and styles.

They all use quadratic splines which means that the curves they produce are better (they flow more naturally) than with fonts that use older splines.

They are all free to download and use so you can use them form your school/university work, books, posters and so on. If you are going to use them for a commercial purpose, I would ask that you let me know (not for the purpose of permission but so that I can put a link on this site).

Wallpapers . . .

These wallpapers are all created using Blender and are for 1280x1024 although there is nothing stopping you from putting them on a desktop with a different size and scaling/cropping them.