Type and communication designer from Aurangabad, Maharashtra. Designed Sinhala-script typefaces at the Indian Type Foundry.

Aditi Pimprikar - Indian Type Foundry designer profile

Aditi Pimprikar - Adobe Fonts


Co-leads the typeface studio AlterType, designing typefaces across brand identity and editorial contexts. Graduate of NID and the Type@Cooper program at Cooper Union; visiting faculty in Communication Design at NID.

Anand Naorem - Type Network

Anand Naorem - Typotheque

About - Brand New Type / AlterType


Worked on a script-digitization project for the Wancho community of Arunachal Pradesh, developing typeface forms for their recently created script. Bangalore-based type designer, NID Ahmedabad graduate.

Designing a font for India's indigenous Wancho community - Universal Thirst Gazette

Anurag Gautam - MyFonts


cadsondemak.com


Known for Telugu and Kannada Unicode typefaces released as open-source fonts. Hyderabad-based type designer and digital media professional with over three decades in advertising, printing, and publishing.

Ramaraja - Google Fonts

Appaji Ambarisha Darbha - Online Fonts


fonts.adobe.com

catalogue.bnf.fr

bnf.hypotheses.org

aurelien-vret.fr


Co-created the open-source Samyak font family (Devanagari, Oriya, and other Indian scripts) with Pravin Satpute, Rahul Bhalerao, and Sandeep Shedmake, originated at HBCSE, TIFR.

Samyak Oriya Regular Font - BigFontSite.com

ttf-indic-fonts copyright - Debian (Launchpad)


theaterencyclopedie.nl


Standardized Gurmukhi script typesetting, publishing the Guru Granth Sahib and the first Punjabi dictionary using modern printing technique at his Sudarshan Printing Press. Pioneer of modern Punjabi poetry.

A comparative study of the development of the Gurmukhi script - TypeCulture


Type designer whose graduation project developed a Devanagari design based on Adrian Frutiger's Univers, under Mahendra Patel. Designed the Sanchar Devanagari family for the Indian Type Foundry.

Dhruvi Tolia - Indian Type Foundry designer profile

Type Design (Devanagari Script) - Dhruvi Tolia, Behance


Freefont Vercetti

Filippos Fragkogiannis

echamber.eea.gr

Georgia Harizani and Filippos Fragkogiannis play with typographic structure for AkzoNobel’s planner

Free and Open Source Fonts Selected by Filippos Fragkogiannis

POP Member Showcase: 9 Graphic Designers

POP Member Showcase: 10 Stickers

POP Member Showcase: 20 Posters

POP Member Showcase: 11 Monochrome Prints

Public Art Festival

citylikeyou: Interview with Filippos Fragkogiannis

fontsinuse.com

East or West, home’s best

Πώς το λογότυπο για το μετρό Θεσσαλονίκης μετατράπηκε σε κωμωδία του συρμού

page-online.de

Fonts.gr Digital Content and Social Media

Η γραμματοσειρά του γραφίστα Φίλιππου Φραγκογιάννη κερδίζει βραβεία

Daily Inspiration: Meet Filippos Fragkogiannis

filipposfragkogiannis.com

filipposfragkogiannis.com


Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia


black-foundry.com


Credited with early font work for the Ho language's Warang Chiti (Warang Citi) script.

Ghanshyam Bodra Unicode !! Ho Font Unicode !! Ho Font Creator !! Ho Font Symbol - YouTube


IIT Bombay faculty with a PhD on theoretical modeling of Devanagari typefaces. Co-created the Ek multi-script family, Ek Mukta, LifeOk Devanagari, and Star Bengali, and contributed to Baloo 2 Devanagari.

Girish Dalvi - IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay

Girish Dalvi - Adobe Fonts


designby-women.com


type designer
graphic designer
calligrapher

Type designer working in Gujarati, Devanagari, and Gurmukhi scripts. Runs the Gunjan Font Foundry, producing typefaces including Kalkal, plus Switzer Gujarati and Switzer Gurmukhi for the Indian Type Foundry.

Gunjan Font Foundry - MyFonts

Gunjan Panchal - Fonts In Use


Designed the Devanagari component of the Laila typeface. Joined the Indian Type Foundry in 2014, working on Devanagari, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Thai. Now teaches type design independently.

Hitesh Malaviya (Rocky) - Indian Type Foundry designer profile

Hitesh Malaviya - Commercial Type

Hitesh Malaviya - Typotheque


Self-taught type designer known for an early body of free ASCII-encoded fonts covering Gurmukhi and other Indian scripts, produced from the mid-1990s into the 2000s. Also a Punjabi photographer.

Punjabi/Gurmukhi fonts - Luc Devroye

Jatt Janmeja - OnlineWebFonts


Computer scientist and long-time Project Gutenberg volunteer. Created the Oriya-TeX package's METAFONT-based Odia fonts, including Or10, with Anshuman Pandey, 1996-2003.

Oriya-TeX package - CTAN

Contributor: Jeroen Hellingman - CTAN


jonathanhoefler.com


type-together.com


Paul Klee, Dessau XI '29


Designed the Hind Siliguri typeface at the Indian Type Foundry. Specializes in Bengali, Assamese, and Odia scripts. NID Ahmedabad graphic design graduate.

Jyotish Sonowal - Indian Type Foundry designer profile

Jyotish Sonowal - Fonts In Use


Type designer and font engineer focused on writing systems of the Indian subcontinent. Worked at Monotype and Dalton Maag before co-founding Universal Thirst in 2016.

Kalapi Gajjar - Type Network

Kalapi Gajjar-Bordawekar - Typotheque

Kalapi Gajjar-Bordawekar - GRANSHAN


type designer
graphic designer
3D artist

Graphic designer who began developing her first typeface during a 2013 internship at the Indian Type Foundry. Designed Tarsus, a Latin-script text serif typeface published by ITF in 2015.

Khyati Trehan - Indian Type Foundry designer profile

Tarsus Typeface - Khyati Trehan


Designed the Devanagari component of Fit and the typeface Lini, awarded a Certificate of Excellence by the Type Directors Club. Mumbai-born, Berlin-based type designer; partner at Mota Italic.

Kimya Gandhi - Type Network

Kimya Gandhi - The Type Directors Club

Kimya Gandhi - personal website


Designed VEGESIGNES, a large multi-script open-source font built with FontStruct covering Oriya alongside numerous other writing systems.

VEGESIGNES - Font Library


Designed typefaces including Kalam, Tillana, Pancho Devanagari, and Ikat, working with the Indian Type Foundry since 2013. Independent type designer bringing Indic scripts into contemporary digital type design.

Lipi Raval - Indian Type Foundry designer profile

Lipi Raval - Fonts In Use

Lipi Raval - Platform Magazine


csumc.wisc.edu


Type designer and retired NID Ahmedabad faculty. Worked in Adrian Frutiger's Paris workshop in 1971, developing a modern Devanagari design across multiple Indian scripts. Awarded the 2010 Gutenberg Prize.

2010 Mahendra Patel - Gutenberg-Gesellschaft

Mahendra Patel - D'Source Biography

Understanding typefaces - PrintWeek India


Graphic designer and type contributor based in India. Worked on the Ek multi-script project's Odia typeface development, and contributed to Anek, Google's multiscript font family, specifically the Odia component.

Ek Odia - Ek Type

Anek, Google's Multiscript Font - Google Design


Designed the Noto Sans Warang Citi typeface, part of Google's Noto font project bringing the Ho language into digital use, and a Warang Citi mobile keyboard at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Meet the youngsters bringing the Indian tribal language of Ho into the digital age - Scroll.in

Noto Warang Citi - Noto Fonts project


type designer
lettering designer
UI/UX designer

Collaborated with Shuchita Grover and Ek Type to create the Baloo Bhaina display typeface, released as a Google Font. Lettering designer; presented on Odia calligraphy at Typography Day 2015.

Manish Minz - Fonts In Use

Manish Minz - Typographica


Punchcutter and son-in-law of Panchanan Karmakar, continuing his work at the Serampore Mission Press. Designed the 19th-century Odia typeface used by the Orissa Mission Press, digitally revived as Chapakala19.

Chapakala: Revival Odia typeface family, GitHub

Chapakala (Zenodo DOI)


Indian type designer. Better source required.

Manoj Choudhury - LinkedIn


Type designer at the Indian Type Foundry since 2014. Designed typefaces including Hind, Begum, Nippo, Chillax, Sarpanch, Teko, and Torrent.

Manushi Parikh - Indian Type Foundry designer profile

Manushi Parikh - Fonts In Use

Manushi Parikh - Adobe Fonts


Type and graphic designer who worked on typeface projects at the Indian Type Foundry from her 2016 NID Ahmedabad graduation project until 2018; based in Mumbai.

Michelle Parmar - Indian Type Foundry designer profile

Michelle Parmar - Adobe Fonts


Created Noori Nastaliq, the first digital Nastaliq typeface, in collaboration with Monotype, hand-drawing about 18,000 ligatures. Declared an Invention of National Importance by Pakistan in 1982.

The Legacy of Jameel Noori Nastaliq - Shaping Urdu Typography

Nastaliq Typography and Typefaces - Folkloristan


Founder of Murasu Systems. Designed typefaces and input methods for Tamil and other Indic scripts since the 1980s, including Oriya Sangam MN, bundled into Apple's operating systems.

Murasu.Com

Muthu Nedumaran - Fonts In Use


Type designer working across Latin, Devanagari, and Gurmukhi scripts. Has contributed to font suites for Google, Instagram, and Samsung. Designed the Volte typeface family (2015), along with Biblio and Splinter.

Namrata Goyal - Type Network

Namrata Goyal - Future Fonts

Namrata Goyal - personal website


Designed Chapakala20, extending the Chapakala Odia revival family to 20th-century letterpress forms. Led font engineering and overall direction on Chapakala19, working across the Odia letterpress era.

Suggestion for a font (serif with slanted 'e') - TypeDrawers

Type design activities, O Foundation


Designed the KunKun Devanagari typeface family during an internship at the Indian Type Foundry, basing its handwritten-sans forms on her own handwriting. NID Ahmedabad graduate.

Neha Bahuguna - Indian Type Foundry designer profile

Neha Bahuguna - Adobe Fonts


Designed Ennore, a five-weight Latin-script serif typeface with clear stroke contrast, published by the Indian Type Foundry. Graphic design student at Pearl Academy, New Delhi, associated with ITF since 2014.

Nikhil Ranganathan - Fonts In Use

Nikhil Ranganathan - Indian Type Foundry designer profile


10 Type Foundries to Follow on Instagram in 2024 suggested by Filippos Fragkogiannis

nikolaswrobel.com

nikolaswrobel.com


Designed the Munshi Devanagari typeface as a diploma project at the Indian Type Foundry, and the Devanagari component of Poppins Extrabold, with Jonny Pinhorn on Latin.

Ninad Kale - Fonts In Use

Ninad Kale - Indian Type Foundry designer profile


type designer
visual designer
illustrator

Visual designer and illustrator. Designed Sentient, a serif text typeface based on old-style forms drawing on humanist calligraphy, published by the Indian Type Foundry in 2021.

Noopur Choksi - Indian Type Foundry designer profile

Sentient Typeface - Noopur Choksi


Type designer and calligrapher, co-founder of Ek Type. Designed custom typefaces for Star Jalsa and LifeOk, plus open-source typefaces Mukta Vaani, Mukta Mahee, Modak, and the Baloo family.

Noopur Datye - Fonts In Use

Noopur Datye - D&AD

Noopur Datye - Typographica


Motter Tektura in use


Bengali Devanagari Arabic Persian Marathi Telugu Burmese Chinese

Punchcutter who created the first Bengali typeface in 1778 under Charles Wilkins, then the first Nagari (Devanagari) type in 1803 at the Serampore Mission Press, cutting type for 14 languages.

Panchanan Karmakar - Banglapedia

Panchanan, digital revival of the first Bengali typeface

Panchanan, digitalisation project - TypeDrawers


Visual designer who has worked as a type designer at the Indian Type Foundry, with a focus on Devanagari typography and calligraphy.

Parvez Ansari - Behance

Parvez Ansari - The Org


Type and graphic designer specializing in Indic scripts and lettering. Designed Cambay, a libre Devanagari typeface matching Latin Cantarell. Contributed to typeface projects for GNOME, Google Fonts, and CIS-A2K.

Pooja Saxena - TypeTogether

Interview: Pooja Saxena - TypeTogether


Odisha-born type designer focused on Odia typefaces. Designed Ashoka Odia, the Indian Type Foundry's first commercial Odia typeface and the first Odia text typeface to apply Latin-style stroke contrast.

Pratyush Das - Typotheque

Ashoka Odia - Typographica


Open-source font developer focused on Indian-script typefaces. Designed the Lohit font family, commissioned by Red Hat and shipped as the default Indian-language fonts in Fedora, supporting over 20 Indian languages.

Lohit - Fedora Project Wiki

Lohit fonts family project - GitHub


Designed Catamaran, Palanquin, Neue Frutiger Tamil, and Peridot, supporting Latin and Indic scripts. Type designer and researcher, co-founder of Foundry5, with a PhD on Kannada and Telugu typographic forms.

About Foundry5

Pria Ravichandran - Type Network

Pria Ravichandran - Fonts In Use


Designed Raghu, the first Devanagari typeface built for OpenType, and core Indian-script fonts for Microsoft Windows. Trained as a calligrapher, reframing Indic typography as rigorous design infrastructure.

The Multilinguascriptic Life of R. K. Joshi - Letterform Archive

From Hand-Painted Signboards To Contemporary Typefaces - Homegrown India


Co-created the open-source Samyak font family (Devanagari, Oriya, and other Indian scripts) with Pravin Satpute, Sandeep Shedmake, and Bageshri Salvi, originated at HBCSE, TIFR.

Samyak Oriya Regular Font - BigFontSite.com

ttf-indic-fonts copyright - Debian (Launchpad)


Designed Coorg Kannada and Coorg Kannada Sans at the Indian Type Foundry, and worked on Telugu and Kannada extensions of the Akhand typeface. Recipient of SOTA's 2017 Catalyst Award.

Ramakrishna Saiteja - Indian Type Foundry designer profile

Ramakrishna Saiteja Named Winner of 2017 Catalyst Award - TypeCon

Coorg Kannada Type Family Gives 50 Million Newspaper Readers a Reason to Smile - Eye on Design


Meet Filippos Fragkogiannis

richardmandona.com


Designed Akhand Devanagari, a compact mono-linear typeface family, and Kathan, Khand, Onsra, and Serein. NID Ahmedabad graduate; recipient of the Type Directors Club Ascenders Award.

Sanchit Sawaria - Fonts In Use

Akhand Devanagari by Sanchit Sawaria - designboom


Co-created the open-source Samyak font family (Devanagari, Oriya, and other Indian scripts) with Pravin Satpute, Rahul Bhalerao, and Bageshri Salvi, originated at HBCSE, TIFR.


Co-founded the Indian Type Foundry in 2009. Designed the Kohinoor typeface family, permanently displayed at London's Design Museum since 2016. Recipient of SOTA's 2010 Catalyst Award.

Indian Type Foundry Makes Fonts for Global Brands - The Better India

Satya Rajpurohit - Indian Type Foundry


Designed Labyrinth, an experimental typeface inspired by Kufic calligraphy, with Typotheque and Tal Leming, and Calcula, exploring the space between type design and lettering. Forbes India 30 Under 30, 2017.

Shiva Nallaperumal spices up typography with unique glyphs - TypeRoom

30 Under 30: Meet Shiva Nallaperumal - Forbes India


tibet.que.ne.jp


Type designer at Ek Type. Designed the Gurmukhi component of Baloo 2 and co-designed the Kannada component with Divya Kowshik, plus Mukta Mahee with Noopur Datye.

EkType/Baloo2 - GitHub

Mukta Font Free by EK Type - Font Squirrel


Designed Hedra, a seven-style typeface published by the Indian Type Foundry. NID Ahmedabad graduate; independent designer working across identity, motion graphics, and digital art in New Delhi.

Sijya Gupta - Indian Type Foundry

Sijya Gupta - The Design Kids


Developed Telugu newspaper fonts for Eenadu, Vartha, Andhra Jyoti, and other publications over four decades. Designed a Gondi script font from 100-year-old manuscripts, included in Unicode 11.0.

Sridhar Murthy Srikantham - Luc Devroye


Led the design of Chapakala19, a digital revival of the 19th-century Odia typeface used by Orissa Mission Press, following letterforms from books printed between 1810 and 1875, for body text.

Chapakala: Revival Odia typeface family, GitHub

Type design activities, O Foundation


Type designer formerly associated with C-DAC, India's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing.

C-DAC Employee List (archived)


Designed Mina, a Bengali Google Font, and Alkatra, used for the opening titles of the Netflix film Mission Raniganj. MA in Typeface Design, University of Reading.

Suman Bhandary: Google font creator becomes assistant educator at WSU - The Sunflower

Google Fonts Embrace India's Diverse Languages - Google Design


Designed Siyam Rupali and Kalpurush, Bengali typefaces developed under the Avro Free Bangla font project. Font developer at OmicronLab. Recipient of Bangladesh's Ekushey Padak award in 2025.

Typefaces from and for Bangladesh - Luc Devroye


type designer
typographer
graphic designer

Independent typographer and type designer in Mumbai, designing letterforms across Indian scripts and brand identities. MA in Typeface Design, University of Reading. Co-organizes Mumbai's Typostammtisch.

Know Your Type - A Conversation with Typographer Tanya George - Art Deco Mumbai

Tanya George - Biography - Gallery XXL


Co-designed the Director Bengali typeface family with Jyotish Sonowal, published by the Indian Type Foundry. Kolkata-based graphic and type designer with two decades at Response.

Tapash Kumar Basak - Indian Type Foundry

Director Bengali Font - MyFonts


frerejones.com


Creative Type Director at Monotype, based in Bangalore, specializing in multi-script font design and in restoring and digitizing manuscripts for Indian scripts.

Vaishnavi Murthy Yerkadithaya - Monotype


type-department.com


type-together.com


hdl.handle.net

a-g-i.org

Compositie B

theaterencyclopedie.nl


Type and graphic designer at Ek Type, Mumbai. Designed Anek Latin and Anek Odia, contributed to Honk and Baloo 2's Odia script, and advised on the Chapakala19 Odia revival typeface.

Yesha Goshar - Fonts In Use

Yesha Goshar - Typotheque