Calligraphy Style Gurmukhi Font
A little over a year ago I wrote a blog post about my interest in making a handwritten computer font style of Gurmukhi Calligraphy. While my excitement was there and I received emails from a few people who could hand write Gurbani Calligraphy, I didn’t have the time to make it happen.
A few days ago I was excited to receive an email from a Albel Singh from England whose love for hand writing Gurbani resulted in the creation of the all new Prabhki Calligraphy style font! Once you have installed this font on your computer you can use it do display Gurbani text in a very beautiful way. It opens up a whole new door to creativity with how Gurbani is displayed in the digital world.
Albel Singh shared how the font idea came about…
"My schooling was in India. One of the kirtaniya use to get hand written Gurbani Shabads written for him to do kirtan and to keep them on harmonium, this gave me bit of practice, then I practised writing and on our 2nd wedding Anversarry gifted my wife a handwritten Hukumnama Sahib of our wedding. Its amazing feeling to write Gurbani, you loose track of time. Then one day someone asked which font is this, that gave me the idea to make a computer font."
The "Prabhki" font is named after his recent newborn daughter (Prabhki Kaur). This font is hopefully just the start of many more Gurbani Hand written font styles!
In this age of technology it is important that we nourish and explore the creativity that is inside each of us. We all have the creative capacity to manifest beautiful things. Whether it is in words, art, websites, fonts, or any form of creative expression. So, if you have been thinking about doing something creative for a while and have been putting it off. Don’t hold back and just flow with it and see what manifests!
Download the Prabhki Gurmukhi Font
Instructions on how to install a font in windows
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Awesome!!!!!!
=D Love the font many thanks =D
totally!!!!
Thank You!! I have been looking for the calligraphy font for so long; almost with the same thought that Albel Singh had once. I can’t thank him enough.
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Really nice Thx !!!
Your Comment… This is realy artistic font you are too close to puratan hastlikhit lipi. Guru sahib hor baksish karan jee.
WAHEGURU JI KAA KHAALSAA WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH
great new fonts wonder blog posts i am waiting for more may Waheguru bless you all
WAHEGURU JI KAA KHAALSAA WAHEGURU J KI FATEH
Thank you. This is beautiful.
anyone know how i can use this font with STTM2 program?
Thank you for the lovely font! God Bless You!
Beautiful font. Well worth the effort.
However, I loaded it and had a go at typing with it to find that the word processor was using the default font instead (it does this when characters exist on the system but not in the specified font).
I loaded it up in my font editor to see what was happening and found that the font only exists in the ASCII character space – it is not UTF-8 (my keyboard types UTF-8 codes for ਪੰਜਾਬੀ which is why you see 'ਪੰਜਾਬੀ' written in ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ and not 'pMjwbI' in ASCII – I don't need to specify a font for any particular piece of text).
A font like this is too good to miss out on standards-compliant encoding (such as in web-pages, wordprocessor documents and so on) so could we have a UTF-8 (unicode) version please?
If you want, I can make your font into a font that supports both the UniCode mappings and your existing ASCII mappings and then you can use it for both purposes – as the computer world changes over to UniCode, it will be there waiting. It would be a pity for such a good font to disappear as the world converts to UniCode and ASCII-mapped Gurmukhi disappears.
Let me know and keep up the good work.
Dear friend,
appreciating the calligraphic fonts and your technical input, i would also like to add something to this noble cause. i have gone through lot of fonts especially the Gurbani fonts, there are few 'matras' are not coming to the right place, hence i successfully workout and created HBD-jethuwal true fonts, where we have taken care of those deficiencies.
since few days my friends have asked me to help them with webpages, where they are going to use Mix kind of text eg; English, Hindi and Punjabi. i down loaded unicode fonts like "saab" and few more, but the problem remains same. if the font is residing in the system it shows up else it shows the English characters.
i tried to type and insert the unicode fonts generated by microsoft indic tools and mac version too, they look fine on all the systems, but they are not having all the characters. if you are going to take pain all that way then solve my problem and i will get all the fonts and extra fonts to you and ask Mr, Albel singh to turn them in to calligraphy.
Sir you can mail me directly at [email protected] so that we can go ahead without a waste of time…………… Kulwant
looks amazing!!!!
congrats to deigners
one thing: as some letter’s have extended tails (khakha & papa), they overlap the onkar underneath and can either be missed (overlooked) or be misunderstood for a ‘pehar de vich rara’.
This has been brought to my attention by quite a few people.
when reading Gurbani such mistakes will change the meanings of Gurbani tremedeously and that should be avoided at all costs.
possible solution could be, that when there is an laga-mattar below the letter then the letter no longer has a tail.
No criticism wat-so-ever…just a suggestion
Gurmustuk Singh, if you could please forward my two pence to the designers…ultimately its upto them to decide whether they see it as an issue or not
Singh
simply beautiful. Thank you Albel Singh for this gift to the Sangat.
Beautiful. And easy to install on a Mac…
–right click on the link and choose “Save Linked File As…”. Remove the .txt extension from the end of the filename (ie it should look like this: Prabhki.ttf) and save on the desktop.
–From the desktop, double click on the file. This should add it to your fonts library. (if not, from finder navigate on your computer disk to Libary/Fonts and copy and paste the file there).
–Restart your computer. voila!
What a great font! Â Gurumustuk, can you put me in touch with the creator?
Interesting to see font installation from the Mac side of the fence.
I thought that OS X was based upon BSD. With this in mind and wanting computing to be easier,
I wonder if the procedure on
http://www.billie.grosse.is-a-geek.com/computer-02.html?o=obsk
works.
That is using a true BSD (OpenBSD) and the interesting thing is that you can type fonts:/ in the address bar of the file browser and it will come up with the system/ and personal/ options.
It also does this on the machine (OpenSuSE with KDE) that I’m writing this on at the moment.
The comment about the tails getting in the way of below-baseline features is an interesting one. I solved this on my Raaj font by using ligatures.
For the page that inspired me to produce the Raaj font, look at
http://www.mrsikhnet.com/index.php/2008/01/10/calligraphy-punjabi-gurmukhi/comment-page-1/#comment-23247
– install the Raaj Script or Raaj Script Thin fonts from
http://www.billie.grosse.is-a-geek.com/resources-03.html
and then produce the image at the top of the page – the one that says ‘ਮਤਿਨਾਮ੒. Notice the aunkard is displaced to the left – this can be done using an alternative aunkard (mapped to the ‘-‘ key).
To get the variability in pressure caused by an irregular background, type what you want to produce in an image processor and then blur it by, say 3 pixels (this is for web design), add another layer and put the page texture onto that. Set its transparency down to, say, 30 per cent (depends upon the background) and then merge it with the text layer. Now you have one transparent layer. Go into its densities and set the lower level of the alpha channel to the transparency you set for the background. Now, your font looks as though it was hand-written on uneven paper. You can do this overscale (say by a factor of 3) and then use a threshold function and then scale down to what it should be to get the result you need. By doing it that way instead of using a degraded font, you get different irregularities for each letter, regardless of how many ‘ਣ’s you use.
Just email me on [email protected] if you want anything clearing up.
For more ਗà©à¨°à¨®à©à¨–à©€ fonts, look at
http://www.billie.grosse.is-a-geek.com/resources-03.html
for the fonts page
Interesting to see font installation from the Mac side of the fence.
I thought that OS X was based upon BSD. With this in mind and wanting computing to be easier,
I wonder if the procedure on
http://www.billie.grosse.is-a-geek.com/computer-02.html?o=obsk
works.
That is using a true BSD (OpenBSD) and the interesting thing is that you can type fonts:/ in the address bar of the file browser and it will come up with the system/ and personal/ options.
It also does this on the machine (OpenSuSE with KDE) that I’m writing this on at the moment.
The comment about the tails getting in the way of below-baseline features is an interesting one. I solved this on my Raaj font by using ligatures.
For the page that inspired me to produce the Raaj font, look at
http://www.mrsikhnet.com/index.php/2008/01/10/calligraphy-punjabi-gurmukhi/comment-page-1/#comment-23247
– install the Raaj Script or Raaj Script Thin fonts from
http://www.billie.grosse.is-a-geek.com/resources-03.html
and then produce the image at the top of the page – the one that says ‘ਮਤਿਨਾਮ੒. Notice the aunkard is displaced to the left – this can be done using an alternative aunkard (mapped to the ‘-‘ key).
To get the variability in pressure caused by an irregular background, type what you want to produce in an image processor and then blur it by, say 3 pixels (this is for web design), add another layer and put the page texture onto that. Set its transparency down to, say, 30 per cent (depends upon the background) and then merge it with the text layer. Now you have one transparent layer. Go into its densities and set the lower level of the alpha channel to the transparency you set for the background. Now, your font looks as though it was hand-written on uneven paper. You can do this overscale (say by a factor of 3) and then use a threshold function and then scale down to what it should be to get the result you need. By doing it that way instead of using a degraded font, you get different irregularities for each letter, regardless of how many ‘ਣ’s you use.
Just email me on [email protected] if you want anything clearing up.
For more ਗà©à¨°à¨®à©à¨–à©€ fonts, look at
http://www.billie.grosse.is-a-geek.com/resources-03.html
for the fonts page.
Waheguru ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh,
  Piyari sangat jio, its the beauty of our mother(maa boli), and above that our father (Guru Nanak(s)) who gave us Gurbani. lets do ardaas before HIM, to let us fall in Love with it.
any suggestions, instructions, coments to improve the font feel free to write at
[email protected]
Waheguru ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh, Piyari sangat jio, its the beauty in itself of our mother(maa boli), and above that our father (Guru Nanak(s)) who gave us Gurbani. lets do ardaas before HIM, to let us immerse in Love with it. any suggestions, instructions, coments to improve the font feel free to write at  [email protected]
WJKK WJKF!
Thank you so much veer ji for this font. I have been searching for many years for a font like this.Â
May Guru ji bless you and all the sewadars that made it happen.
WJKK WJKF
x
Congratulations from Kuk Punjabi Samachar. This is wonderful font. Thanx and God Bless you.
hi,
i want to get a tatoo that says destiny which means qismat in punjabi. i was wondering if u knew how to write it in punjabi letters
ਕ਼ਿਸਮਤ Note that the kakkaa is a paer bindi form.
can you please write Reeyun for me in this script….i’ve tried eveywhere else and no one can help…. i really want to know waht my sons name in gurmukhi looks like..
thank you
Waheguru Ji Kaa Khaalsaa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!
thought i might help!
if you have prabhki {font} installed try using these in word or any custom text program {if you are using windows}
the combinations below would give you different versions of your son’s name { didn’t know how your son’s name Reeyun was spelled}
so i tried all the combinations that might be possible {audio pronunciation might have been more useful}
rIaUn
rIAn
rIAx
rIXun
rIXUn
rIXUx
i tried making PNG images of all combinations using a 1600X1200 template!
uploaded these over to the web and all six combinations are in a zip file too! you can have them here at:
http://drop.io/khaalsaa/
{password protected because this is a private drop, didn’t want much onlookers}
guest password is: [email protected]
i visit this page often { via Google search: “mrsikhnet calligraphy”} whenever i need these fonts for here is a prabhki download link and i love this blog!
in my today’s visit i happened to read the comments, so read your comment and thought maybe i should help “the lady who wants to see her son’s name in Gurmukhi”
your wish elated me!
thanks for asking!
@MrSikhNet i know this comment might not be read by the lady so i think you can help here!
please forward this comment to ranjeeta, you have her records {email} at your end!
thanks again Albel Singh for the beautiful fonts.
May Waheguru Bless All
Waheguru ji Kaa Khaalsaa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!
this font is very exquisite. thankxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wjwjf, dear brother. pl help me to email ,satnam sri waheguru, in kaligrap[h. thanking you
Thanks for providing this typeface. I was looking for a long time for such a typeface. Thanks once again and keep doing such good work. :)
With regards,
Manu
sat shri akal
great…really thanks…
Sorry about this folks,
My DNS service has messed up (they too k the opportunity of an IP address change to deny my wildcard) and as a result…
The links to http://www.billie.grosse.is-a-geek.com/ should now be changed to http://grosse.is-a-geek.com/billie/
Again, sorry about this.
your work is so appreciated by sikhism lover