With the increase in the use of digital communication during the pandemic, there has been a great surge in the consumption of information in all forms, be it for entertainment or education.

Entertainment in regional languages is not highly dependent on text but regional education has experienced a significant (need-based) transformation and would continue to experience the transition into digital mode of instruction during and beyond the pandemic. The availability of open-source Odia typefaces is scarce.

Out of the available ones, the major ones are intended to be display fonts, which are not suitable for body texts. The developments in the Odia typefaces have not caught up with the existing technologies as it can be seen that out of the available fonts, hardly any could be found to have variable characteristics. The project aims at creating a monolinear Odia typeface that would be able to aid the requirements of the current digital transformation.

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• Designing a Monolinear Odia Font......