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Srijika: OpenType-Layout-Reusing Font Restyling for Nine Indic Scripts

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 4, 2026 · UTC

We present Srijika, a system for producing installable OpenType fonts for nine Brahmic scripts: Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, and Odia. Rather than generating fonts from scratch, Srijika restyles glyph outlines from shaping-complete template fonts. It preserves the template's cmap and GSUB closure and its GPOS data under a documented metric policy, making every output a complete font by construction. This addresses a central challenge of Indic font generation: hundreds to thousands of conjuncts, half forms, and matra variants must remain mutually c

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