Panchanan Karmakar (1804) Registry of Type Design punchcutter type designer 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. O Foundation 2026-08-12 Text text/html rtd-p-000036 https://rtd.theofdn.org/people/panchanan-karmakar/ https://n2t.net/ark:54728/rtd-p-000036 Panchanan Karmakar - Banglapedia: https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Panchanan_Karmakar Panchanan, digital revival of the first Bengali typeface: https://fonts.atipra.in/panchanan.html Panchanan, digitalisation project - TypeDrawers: https://typedrawers.com/discussion/5276/panchanan-a-project-for-digitalisation-of-first-bengali-typeface-created-by-panchanan-karmakar en India CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/