Sunday, June 9, 2019

How to Install a Sinhala Fonts

How to install a Font


How to install a sinhala or tamil font in to a computer

You may find it necessary to install additional fonts onto their computer because of the lack of available fonts to choose from. In addition to the below steps to manually install fonts onto your computer, it is also important to realize that several different software applications will also install extra fonts when they are installed onto your computer. Lot of Sinhala and Tamil fonts does not comes with a software package (Ex: Helawadana, Kaputa, Helabasa )
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, and XP users

  •     Right click and save the font file on your computer.
  •     If the font file is archived (RAR, ZIP), unzip it.
  •     Click Start, Settings, Control Panel.
  •     Open the Fonts icon by double clicking the icon.
  •     Within the Fonts window you will be able to view each of the currently installed fonts as  well as install new fonts.
  •     To install a font, click the File menu and select Install New Font.
  •     Locate the directory of the font you wish to install.
  •     Highlight the fonts you wish to install and click ok.

Other Microsoft Windows versions (windows 7, windows 8)

  •     Click Start, Settings, Control Panel.
  •     Open the Fonts icon by double clicking the icon.
  •     Within the Fonts window you will be able to view each of the currently installed fonts as well as install new fonts.
  •     To install a font, click the File menu and select Install New Font.
  •     Locate the directory of the fonts you wish to install.
  •     Highlight the fonts you wish to install and click ok.

Tip Users may also easily install fonts onto the computer by opening the fonts folder through Windows Explorer. Usually this folder is either C:WINDOWS or C:WINNT/ FONTS. Once this folder is open, select the fonts you wish to install from an alternate folder and copy and paste them into the fonts folder.
Apple Macintosh users

  •     Open the System Fonts folder.
  •     Open the drive or folder containing the fonts that you wish to install.
  •     Select each of the fonts you wish to install.
  •     Drag and drop the fonts into your fonts folder, while holding down the Options key,

SINHALA FONT FOR ANDROID PHONE


 SINHALA FONT FOR ANDROID PHONE
Two methods can be used to install sinhala fonts :
1. Custom Recovery Method (Recommended)
2. Root Method

You can use any method you prefer. Download links to all needed files can be found at the end.



Custom Recovery Method :

1. Download "Android Sinhala Fonts Flashable" zip file.
2. Copy it to your phone's SD card.
3. Boot into custom recovery & flash it.
4. Reboot. Done!


Root Method :

1. Download "NotoSansSinhala-Regular.ttf" & "NotoSansSinhala-Bold.ttf" font files.
2. Copy them to your phone's SD card.
3. Download "Root Browser" from Play Store (I recommend Root Browser).
4. Locate copied font files using Root Browser.
5. Copy them to the fonts folder ("/system/fonts/") using Root Browser.
6. Set permissions " rw-r--r-- / 644 " for both font files. (HOW?)
7. Reboot. Done!
DOWNLOADS
Android Sinhala Fonts Flashable ZIP - DOWNLOAD
NotoSansSinhala-Regular.ttf - DOWNLOAD
NotoSansSinhala-Bold.ttf - DOWNLOAD

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