Tuladha Jejeg is a
Javanese-script typeface designed by Taco Roorda in 1838 and digitized by R.S. Wihananto.
Roorda's design is based on the contemporary handwritten
Surakartan-Javanese manuscript.
The letters are composed of alternating thick and thin strokes, and some have
serif
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s.
The typeface was widely used for over a century during the
Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...
colonial era.
Wihananto's
Unicode font
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of the same name is bundled into
MediaWiki
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for use in Javanese-language editions of Wikimedia projects.
Wihananto's font is available on SIL's
Open Font License
The SIL Open Font License (or OFL in short) is one of the major open font licenses, which allows embedding, or "bundling", of the font in commercially sold products.
OFL is a free and open source license.
It was created by SIL International, ...
. Version 2.0.1 was released on 15 June 2013. It utilizes
Graphite
Graphite () is a crystalline form of the element carbon. It consists of stacked layers of graphene. Graphite occurs naturally and is the most stable form of carbon under standard conditions. Synthetic and natural graphite are consumed on large ...
to render the complexities of Javanese script.
OpenType
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version of the font without Graphite requirement was published on 30 August 2022 by Fadhl Haqq.
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Typefaces
Javanese script