Panchanan Karmakar
ARK https://n2t.net/ark:54728/rtd-p-000036
- Roles
- punchcutter, type designer
- Dates
- ? – 1804
- Nationality
- Indian
- Scripts
- Bangla (Bengali) Devanagari Arabic Persian 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.
See also
Sources
- Panchanan Karmakar - Banglapedia (archived copy)
- Panchanan, digital revival of the first Bengali typeface (archived copy)
- Panchanan, digitalisation project - TypeDrawers (archived copy)
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