Noto Serif Bengali is a modulated (“serif”) design for texts in the Indic Bangla (Bengali) script.
Noto Serif Bengali has multiple weights and widths, contains 640 glyphs, 19 OpenType features, and supports 173 characters from 5 Unicode blocks: Bengali, Basic Latin, Vedic Extensions, General Punctuation, Devanagari.
Bangla (Bengali, Bengali-Assamese, বাংলা বর্ণমালা) is an Indic abugida, written left-to-right (265 million users). Used in Bangladesh and India, for the Bengali language, and for other languages like Assamese, Kokborok, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Meitei Manipuri, Rabha, Maithili, Rangpuri, Sylheti, Santali and Sanskrit. Developed in the 11th century CE. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on ScriptSource, Unicode, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, r12a.