Design Case study
The History of Devanagari Typography
Promoting common awareness of the history of our oldest native script
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Bibliography
References:
Books
• “Caltis, Special Issue on Calligraphy, Lettering & Typography of Indic Scripts”, ‘83, ‘84 and ‘85
• Naik, Bapurao S. “Typography of Devanagari Volume 1— Revised”, Directorate, Government Printing and Stationery, 1971
• Ross, Fiona & Shaw, Graham, “Non-Latin scripts—From metal to digital type”, 2012.
• Akruti Font Catalogue
Research Papers
• Dalvi, Girish, “Anatomy of Typefaces, Design Thoughts”, IDC IIT Bombay, Jan 2009
• Dalvi, Girish, “Conceptual Model for Devanagari Typefaces”, IDC IIT Bombay, 2010
• Gandhi, Kimya, “Design of a Multi-purpose Devanagari typeface”, 2010
• Joshi, Vijaybahu, “Experiments in Devanagari Typefaces”, 2004
Web References
• designinindia.net
designinindia.net/everywhere/areas/type/index.html
• D’source — dsource.in
dsource.in/resource/devanagari-letterforms-history/index.html
• C-DAC — www.cdac.in
• indiantyefoundry.com
Other Links:
• Useful resource e-links related to 'Communication Design'
• Visual Communication Design at IDC, IIT Bombay
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