Download and Install Meetei Mayek Font

  1. To download Meetei Mayek font to your disk, click here. (Remember the location of this file meetei.zip on your disk.

  2. Unzip this file using WinZip or whatever equivalent software you have. This will create a directory Meetei, containing the font file Meetei.ttf and some other help files.

  3. Go to Start/Settings/Control Panel/Fonts
    All the fonts installed in your machine are displayed here.


  4. Go now to the menu File/Install New Font
    In this new window you should first select the folder where you have unzipped meetei.zip. In the above window List of Fonts the font name "Meetei Mayek" should appear. Select this font and click OK.

After this step the font "Meetei Mayek" would have been added successfully to your system´s Font Folder and you can use this font in any of your windows applications.

After the font is installed, reload this page - you should be able to see Meetei Mayek in the box below.

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Open the file example.html, contained in the directory Meetei, in Netscape or any other browser. You should be able to see some text in Meetei Mayek if the font has been installed successfully.

Installing Meetei Mayek Font in Linux

Installing Meetei Mayek Font in Linux On Linux, it is better to use the Type 1 font, which we have packaged.

Unzip the font package file using the command
unzip Meetei.zip
Basically, one has to copy the file Meetei.afm and Meetei.pfb to the directory where Type 1 fonts are (tested on Redhat 9 and Fedora), /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
Basically issue these commands (as root):

# cp Meetei.afm /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
# cp Meetei.pfb /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
# fc-cache /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1

That's all. Restart your browser, and you should be able to see Meetei Mayek webpages. Use any word-processor, like Abiword, to type documents in Meetei Mayek.