Designing A Devanagari Font


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Creator/Artist: Sanket Kapoor Gonte

Category: Communication Design

Document: P2 Project

Batch: 2017-2019

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. G. V. Sreekumar


Detailed Description

The aim of this project is to design a multipurpose monolinear Devanagari font, which can be scaled to be used as a variable font in OpenType format. After initial form iterations in the weight and width axes with emphasis on readability, it was decided to create a form which is not too roundish or too squarish but to go with a form which is in between the two styles. The final font follows a unique visual form which is unique and finds a peculiar blend of round and square visual primitives. The final output is currently in single weight, which can be used for text as well as display purposes. The final form provides a good outline structure for further development as an OpenType variable font in multiple weights and widths.