Download naYana for English

Install the naYana font on your machine to render IPA-spelled content in any application that supports Unicode — text editors, word processors, browsers, terminal emulators, anywhere.

naYana

⤓ Download Nayana-Regular.otf

~50 KB · OpenType/CFF · OFL 1.1 · v0.1.0

Install

macOS

Double-click Nayana-Regular.otf
Click Install Font in Font Book
Done. The font appears as Nayana English in any application's font picker.

Windows

Right-click Nayana-Regular.otf
Select Install (or Install for all users)
Done. Font appears in Word, Notepad, browsers, anywhere fonts are listed.

Linux

Copy the file to your fonts directory:
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
cp Nayana-Regular.otf ~/.local/share/fonts/
Refresh the font cache:
fc-cache -f -v
Done. Pick "Nayana English" in any application.

What you can do with it installed

Read IPA content anywhere. Dictionaries, linguistics papers, Wikipedia pronunciation guides — all the ə, ʃ, ð, ŋ characters that usually render as tofu or generic IPA glyphs now appear in the friendlier naYana style.
Take notes in IPA. Use the IPA keyboard in this site to copy phonetic text, paste it into any editor, and read it back in naYana.
Set it as your editor / IDE font. If you spend a lot of time around IPA (language teaching, phonetics research, conlanging), having every IPA character rendered with the same friendly grammar is a real readability win.
Demo it to a class. Open a PDF dictionary entry in Adobe Reader with naYana as the default font — the pronunciation column suddenly becomes legible to non-linguists.

License

Released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 — free for personal and commercial use, free to redistribute, free to modify (with the caveat that derivative fonts can't be sold standalone). Full licence text included with the source.

naYana is derived from Comic Neue by Craig Rozynski, which is itself OFL-licensed. The original Comic Neue copyright is preserved in the naYana font's metadata.

Source

The font sources (FontForge SFD), the engine that produces naYana spellings from English, and the tutor pages all live in one repository: github.com/gnowledge/naYana-tutor. Pull requests welcome.

Coming soon: keyboard layouts for your device

Once you've installed the font, the next thing you'll want is a way to type naYana spellings outside this website — in your editor, in Word, in chat apps. v0.2 will ship system-level keyboard layouts so the same shortcuts the on-site composer uses (a → ə, T → θ, iH → iː, …) work everywhere on your machine.

Windows — a .klc layout you can compile with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator and install per-user.
macOS — a .keylayout bundle that drops into ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts and shows up in the Input Sources picker.
Linux — an xkb variant you can switch to with setxkbmap or pin via your desktop's keyboard settings.

One install, naYana shortcuts in every text field on your machine. Until then, the in-browser composer covers the same ground for typing IPA you can copy elsewhere.

Heads up. Nayana English is v0.1 — the glyph shapes are still being refined. A small set of design improvements (better ŋ tail, tighter spacing on some characters, audio playback in the tutor) will land in v0.2. If you install v0.1 today, you can update the file later by re-downloading and re-installing — same filename, same family name.