Terafont Varun Gujarati ✔

“A good Gujarati font doesn’t ask you to admire it. It simply gets out of the way.” — Anonymous contributor, Varun GitHub repo.

| Feature | Implementation | |--------|----------------| | | Low-to-medium (1.2:1 thick/thin ratio) | | Shirorekha | Continuous but slightly curved upward to avoid pixel bleed | | Loop anatomy | Open loops on ઢ (ḍha) and ઝ (jha) to prevent filling at small sizes | | Conjunct strategy | Pre-composed ligatures for top 40 conjuncts; fallback to half-forms + ZWJ for rare ones | terafont varun gujarati

Varun was one of the first Gujarati fonts to correctly implement (્ર) and reph (ર્હ) positioning using anchor-based attachment instead of hardcoded glyphs. This makes it robust for arbitrary consonant sequences. “A good Gujarati font doesn’t ask you to admire it