{
 "title": "Fonts in Nepali government notice PDFs, November 2026",
 "author": "Diwakar Bhatt",
 "url": "https://diwakarbhatt.com.np/blog/preeti-vs-unicode-nepali-seo.html",
 "auditDate": "2026-11-05",
 "frame": "The 376 .gov.np organisations whose homepages answered over HTTPS in the 3 November 2026 census (vantage: a server in India).",
 "method": "For each organisation: one GET of the homepage; if it linked a PDF on the same site, one GET of the first such PDF (max 8 MB). Font names were read from the PDF's /BaseFont entries, including compressed object streams. Nothing else was requested. No organisation or document is named.",
 "organisationsChecked": 376,
 "homepagesLinkingAPdf": 78,
 "pdfsAnalysed": 66,
 "localGovernmentPdfs": 2,
 "pdfsByFonts": {
  "legacyNepaliFontOnly": 4,
  "legacyAndUnicodeDevanagari": 11,
  "unicodeDevanagariOnly": 6,
  "noFontsImageOnly": 22,
  "latinFontsOnly": 23
 },
 "legacyFontFamiliesSeen": [
  "Preeti",
  "Kantipur",
  "Fontasy Himali",
  "Himal",
  "Himchuli",
  "Ganesh/Ganess",
  "Aakriti",
  "Nagarik",
  "CV Sadhana"
 ],
 "unicodeDevanagariFontsSeen": [
  "Kalimati",
  "Mangal",
  "Kokila",
  "Nirmala UI",
  "Utsaah",
  "Adobe Devanagari"
 ],
 "limitations": [
  "One PDF per organisation: the first linked from the homepage, so not representative of each organisation's documents.",
  "Local governments are almost absent: their homepages rarely link PDFs directly.",
  "A font being present means at least some text uses it, not all text.",
  "Latin-only PDFs may be English documents or scans with an English OCR layer; they were not inspected further.",
  "Measured from outside Nepal; 704 organisations did not answer at all."
 ]
}