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Young Designers 2011 |
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| Keywords Devanagari Type design Font Handwriting |
My diploma project aimed to come up with a colloquial, handwritten, digital Devanagari typeface with the standard character set. There are some stylized typefaces available in the market, but they are poorly designed and none of them have the quality of handwritten script. I decided to work on a typeface which had the quality of Devanagari script and the essence of good handwriting. Even though there are more than a 100 million native speakers of Hindi in India, development has been very limited. The Devanagari script is used not only for Hindi but also for Marathi, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Gujari, Garhwali, Kumaoni, Konkani, Magahi, Maithili, Marwari, Bhili, Newari, Santhali, Tharu, and sometimes Sindhi, Sherpa and Kashmiri. I wanted to take up the opportunities these languages offered. I followed a detailed process for designing the typeface. After analyzing a collection of different handwriting samples, I selected characters that I thought were appropriate and practiced writing them. The form language was extended to all the characters that make up the set. Once the basic character set was ready, I refined each one and digitized the letter forms. The final outcome of this project was a completely functional Handwritten Devanagari Typeface (of one weight) called Kalki, which was made of over 800 characters. My first project in type designing not only introduced me to the finer details in the craftsmanship of type design but also gave me the opportunity to work with the Indian script, which is a useful tool for good design. |
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