New Calligraphy Style Gurmukhi Font

February 13th, 2009 by Gurumustuk Singh Source: www.mrsikhnet.com

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

 

This font uses the same key map as Gurbani Lipi fonts

Update: I just found out that another Stylized Gurbani Font was created by Paul Grosse. There are actually a few different font selections to choose from and quite a bit of information about the font. View and Download this font here.

Comments

April 1, 2009 - 9:02pm — rgx_singh

verry nice fonts

thank you for creating this font. please dont stop here. explore your creativity. by the way i have created about 3 fonts(excluding my aborted projects). The latest font is gurmukhi bit font. you can have preview of that on my Blog: http://punjabiunderground.blogspot.com/
February 21, 2009 - 10:35am — albelsingh

ardaas

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 albelsingh@gmail.com
February 20, 2009 - 10:13pm — smashyguy

I am feeling elated...

Albel Singh Ji! Congratulations for your great effort invested to come up with such a beautiful calligraphy Gurmukhi font! I must mention here that this font gives exactly the same feel as of historic handwritten Gurbani snapshots we have seen earlier. I must call out here that this great effort of yours would trigger a wave of inspiration for so many others as well to contribute to the sikh culture and values through their innovative thoughts! At the same time I want to thank you for designating such a beautiful name to both the special and invaluable ones! Also I simply loved your idea of gifting the handwritten Hukamnama to your wife! I believe this is the best way to express your compassion and trust to your better half! Kudos! Rabb Mehar Kare!
February 20, 2009 - 2:52am — gurtej

More fonts

Thanks a million to Paul Grosse. The fonts are superb. And Unicode friendly too. No problems with MS Office either. Cool. Gurtej Singh - New Zealand
February 18, 2009 - 2:05pm — manbel (not verified)

oh its been updated

sngat jio, Prabhki font is updated as well,
February 16, 2009 - 7:45am — Sarb

Prabhki Fonts..

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa..Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh ... I appreciate & congratulate my respected veer Albel Singh ji for his work on these fonts. Actually I found that these fonts resemble with Handwritten Pothis from Shri Guru Gobind Singh ji"s scriptures..[Guru Sahib"s Handwriting is same as these fonts diplay ].. So it should be kept in mind k these fonts should be used in writing only Gurbani... nothing else..Guru Sahib ji ne aap kirpa kar k eh sewa veer ji to lyee hai..
February 16, 2009 - 6:40am — taranjs

I'm speechless

Albel Singh ji... I have no words to thank you... I have been making gurbani posters from a long time and was looking for a calligraphic gurmukhi font since 2 years.. its like a dream come true for me... it will give new dimensions to my creations.. Guru mehar kare veerji aapji te.. and say my Fateh to my little sis.. Prabhki Kaur :) Waheguru ji ka Khalsa Waheguru ji ki Fateh -Taranjeet Singh http://joinsikhi.blogspot.com/
February 15, 2009 - 11:15pm — gurtej

Thanks for the font

Good font but two observations: 1. Doesn't work with MS Office but is OK with OpenOffice. 2. Wish this was a Unicode font. Thanks Gurtej Singh New Zealand
February 16, 2009 - 11:24am — Jas4raj

Works Fine

It works fine for me. I have office 2007 on my computer. "Spirituality without religion is like a lemonade without lemon"
February 16, 2009 - 10:05am — guruka

Works just fine with MS Office 2007

I installed this beautiful font properly in Windows Vista (using the fonts folder in the Control Panel) and all my programs, including MS Office can see it and use it just fine.
.....G

"A sound man's heart is not shut within itself but it is always open to other people's hearts. If I am true enough, I feel the heartbeats of others above my own."
February 14, 2009 - 10:59am — Nihal Singh

Awesome!

Thanks to Albel Singh for creating this beautiful font. It works great.

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