The story of Devanagari type from early print to the digital age, as Indian print culture both sparked and responded to intense socio-political change and constant technological innovation.

We created a survey to evaluate different graphic variants of Devanagari characters, interviewing hundreds of people gathering data and recommendations not only on the recognisability of each form of the Devanagari characters, but also on the preferences of readers and users.

November, October and November Stencil Tamil are a family of low-contrast, monolinear Tamil typefaces. Following a rigorous overhaul of the original, they have now been redesigned for better reading and unambiguous communication in text and display sizes.

A short essay scrutinising the general misconceptions of western typography, and the appropriateness of Euro-centric type terminology.

Review of India’s first design conference, held in 2006 in Goa.

In order that we can make more informed, research-based decisions when designing Devanagari fonts, we are inviting people who regularly use the Devanagari script to take part in our survey to help us understand regional preferences for character variants.

Oli Grotesk is an affable, high-performance typeface family informed by the industrial aesthetics of mechanical writing tools.

November and October, global font families inspired by an industrial heritage, now support the two most widely used Indian scripts.

Greta Sans Devanagari is the largest typeface system of interrelated styles produced for any Indic language, suitable for small text and headlines.

Fedra Sans supports another two writing scripts, and 280 million more speakers.

Karthik Malli is an independent researcher and writer based in Bangalore, India. His work, based in linguistics and history, focuses on the intersecti...

Aadarsh Rajan studies and designs Tamil letters. He also writes about type and design....

Tishani Doshi is a poet, dancer and writer from Chennai, India. She has published six books of poetry and fiction. Her essays, poems and short stories...

Arya Purohit is a Type Designer and Graphic Designer from Mumbai. After completing an internship with Seenk, Paris and working as a designer for ASDS,...

Parimal Parmar is a designer from India with special interest in type and identity design, graduated from D J Academy of Design, Coimbatore, India. Hi...

Typotheque designs and develops Unicode-compliant fonts. Below are some instructions for using Unicode fonts to set Devanagari texts.