Lohit, an open source Telugu font
Lohit Telugu is an open source Telugu font primarily found in Linux distributions. It is Unicode compatible. It looks great. Here is a sample of this font:
Lohit Telugu is part of the Lohit Fonts project. The project currently has fonts in these Indian languages: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, and Telugu.
You can download Lohit Telugu and their other fonts for other Indian languages from their project page.
Download. Click on the respective language links in “Binary” column to get just the font. You might need a tool like 7-zip to extract from .tar.gz files.)