{
  "id": "rtd-o-000038",
  "slug": "automatic-control-equipments",
  "name": {
    "preferred": "Automatic Control Equipments",
    "alternates": [
      "ACE"
    ]
  },
  "kind": "foundry",
  "countries": [
    "India"
  ],
  "location": "Pune",
  "description": "Pune firm that made the original Lohit fonts for Bangla, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi and Tamil, copyrighted 2001–03 and released under the GPL. It also built the BRAILLE-MITRA reader.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://snapshot.debian.org/package/ttf-indic-fonts/",
      "title": "ttf-indic-fonts source packages 0.3.9 (2005) and 0.4.9 (2007): Lohit font files and copyright - Debian snapshot archive",
      "type": "software repository",
      "publisher": "Debian",
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://fonts.maateen.me/lohit-bengali/",
      "title": "Lohit Bengali - Bangla Web Fonts",
      "type": "font catalogue",
      "publisher": "Bangla Web Fonts",
      "language": "en",
      "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260112081217/https://fonts.maateen.me/lohit-bengali/"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.digit.in/news/general/multilingual-braille-reader-launched-by-city-firm-2088.html",
      "title": "Multilingual Braille Reader launched by City Firm - Digit",
      "type": "newspaper or magazine",
      "publisher": "Digit",
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/two-city-institutes-to-get-braille-libraries/articleshow/4262242.cms",
      "title": "Two city institutes to get Braille libraries - Times of India",
      "type": "newspaper or magazine",
      "publisher": "The Times of India",
      "language": "en"
    }
  ],
  "record_status": "active",
  "superseded_by": null,
  "created_at": "2026-10-19",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-19",
  "canonical_url": "https://rtd.theofdn.org/organisations/automatic-control-equipments/",
  "api_url": "https://rtd.theofdn.org/api/organisations/rtd-o-000038.json",
  "typefaces": [
    {
      "slug": "lohit",
      "name": "Lohit"
    }
  ],
  "people": [
    {
      "slug": "bernard-massot",
      "name": "Bernard Massot",
      "role": "outline and feature fixes: Lohit"
    },
    {
      "slug": "eduardo-tunni",
      "name": "Eduardo Tunni",
      "role": "Latin glyphs, Lohit Devanagari: Lohit"
    },
    {
      "slug": "hiran-venugopalan",
      "name": "Hiran Venugopalan",
      "role": "glyph contributions: Lohit"
    },
    {
      "slug": "parag-nemade",
      "name": "Parag Nemade",
      "role": "font configuration: Lohit"
    },
    {
      "slug": "pravin-satpute",
      "name": "Pravin Satpute",
      "role": "project leader, OpenType tables: Lohit"
    },
    {
      "slug": "rahul-bhalerao",
      "name": "Rahul Bhalerao",
      "role": "contributor: Lohit"
    },
    {
      "slug": "sandeep-shedmake",
      "name": "Sandeep Shedmake",
      "role": "contributor: Lohit"
    },
    {
      "slug": "shilpa-gite",
      "name": "Shilpa Gite",
      "role": "OpenType tables: Lohit"
    },
    {
      "slug": "shriramana-sharma",
      "name": "Shriramana Sharma",
      "role": "glyph contributions: Lohit"
    },
    {
      "slug": "sneha-kore",
      "name": "Sneha Kore",
      "role": "OpenType tables: Lohit"
    }
  ]
}