Noto Serif Kannada is a modulated (“serif”) design for texts in the Indic Kannada script.
Noto Serif Kannada has multiple weights, contains 417 glyphs, 11 OpenType features, and supports 164 characters from 5 Unicode blocks: Kannada, Basic Latin, General Punctuation, Vedic Extensions, Devanagari.
Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿ) is an Indic abugida, written left-to-right, partially with a headstroke (45 million users). Used in southern India for the Kannada language as well as Konkani, Tulu, Badaga, Kudiya, Paniya. Related to Telugu. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on ScriptSource, Unicode, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, r12a.