Devanagari Fonts

A comprehensive npm package for working with Devanagari text and fonts, providing utilities for text rendering, font loading, and text processing.

Features

• 📝 Sample Devanagari Text: Pre-built collection of common phrases, greetings, and text samples
• 🔤 Font Loading: Easy integration with popular Devanagari fonts
• 🎨 Text Rendering: Utilities for styling and displaying Devanagari text
• 🔧 Text Processing: Convert numbers, validate text, and analyze characters
• 🌐 Unicode Support: Full Unicode range support for Devanagari script

Installation

npm install devanagari-fonts

Quick Start

import { DevanagariText, FontLoader, TextRenderer } from 'devanagari-fonts';

// Get sample text
const samples = DevanagariText.getSamplesByCategory('greetings');
console.log(samples[0].text); // "नमस्ते"

// Load fonts
const fontLoader = new FontLoader();
await fontLoader.loadFont({
  name: 'Noto Sans Devanagari',
  url: 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Noto+Sans+Devanagari:wght@400&display=swap',
  format: 'woff2'
});

// Render text
const element = TextRenderer.createTextElement('नमस्ते', {
  fontFamily: 'Noto Sans Devanagari',
  fontSize: '24px',
  color: '#2563eb'
});

API Reference

DevanagariText

Static methods for working with Devanagari text samples and number conversion.

// Get samples by category
const greetings = DevanagariText.getSamplesByCategory('greetings');
const religious = DevanagariText.getSamplesByCategory('religious');

// Convert numbers
const devanagariNum = DevanagariText.convertNumbersToDevanagari('123'); // "१२३"
const arabicNum = DevanagariText.convertNumbersToArabic('१२३'); // "123"

// Check if text is Devanagari
const isDevanagari = DevanagariText.isDevanagari('नमस्ते'); // true

FontLoader

Load and manage Devanagari fonts.

const fontLoader = new FontLoader();

// Load single font
await fontLoader.loadFont({
  name: 'Noto Sans Devanagari',
  url: 'path/to/font.woff2',
  format: 'woff2'
});

// Load multiple fonts
await fontLoader.loadFonts([font1, font2, font3]);

// Check if font is loaded
const isLoaded = fontLoader.isFontLoaded('Noto Sans Devanagari');

// Generate CSS
const css = fontLoader.generateFontCSS(fontConfig);

TextRenderer

Render and style Devanagari text.

// Create styled element
const element = TextRenderer.createTextElement('देवनागरी', {
  fontFamily: 'Noto Sans Devanagari',
  fontSize: '20px',
  color: '#1f2937',
  textAlign: 'center'
});

// Generate CSS
const css = TextRenderer.generateCSS('.devanagari-text', {
  fontFamily: 'Noto Sans Devanagari',
  fontSize: '18px'
});

DevanagariUtils

Utility functions for text analysis and processing.

// Get character information
const info = DevanagariUtils.getCharacterInfo('क');
// { character: 'क', unicode: 'U+0915', name: 'DEVANAGARI LETTER KA', category: 'consonant' }

// Get Unicode point
const unicode = DevanagariUtils.getUnicodePoint('न'); // "U+0928"

// Count Devanagari characters
const count = DevanagariUtils.countDevanagariCharacters('नमस्ते world'); // 5

// Validate Devanagari text
const isValid = DevanagariUtils.isValidDevanagari('नमस्ते'); // true

Sample Text Categories

The package includes sample text in various categories:

• greetings: Common greetings and polite expressions
• religious: Religious phrases and mantras
• philosophy: Philosophical sayings and quotes
• motto: National and cultural mottos

Font Recommendations

Popular Devanagari fonts that work well with this package:

• Noto Sans Devanagari: Modern, clean font from Google Fonts
• Mukti: Traditional style font
• Samarkan Normal: Decorative font for headings

Browser Support

• Modern browsers with FontFace API support
• Node.js environments (returns HTML strings)
• Full Unicode support for Devanagari range (U+0900-U+097F)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit issues and pull requests.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.