Over the last decade or so, dozens of type designers and collectives have been concertedly addressing a deep disparity – the dearth of fonts for Indian languages. Its rise did not happen in a vacuum, though. A decade on, the Ahmadabad-based company has many distinctions to its name: it developed the first-of-its-kind modern Devanagari font (Fedra Hindi), and spearheaded efforts to create a humanist typeface that supports all Indian languages (Kohinoor) as well as a sans serif font covering 12 Indian languages (Akhand). In 2009, the Slovakian typeface designer had co-founded Indian Type Foundry, the first company in the country dedicated to designing and distributing fonts. They convey emotions and tone, just like voices – and just like voices, there are some fonts that are inherently better at communicating a message.īilak knows this universe of fonts, with their adjunct emotions, intimately. Peter Bilak likes to think of fonts as the voice of the text.
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