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  <dc:title>Ichharam Suryaram Desai</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Registry of Type Design</dc:creator>
  <dc:subject>type founder</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>editor</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Devanagari</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Gujarati</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Founded the Gujarati Type Foundry in Bombay in 1900 and introduced slanted italic type for Devanagari and Gujarati. Author and editor of the magazine Gujarati.</dc:description>
  <dc:publisher>O Foundation</dc:publisher>
  <dc:date>2026-10-19</dc:date>
  <dc:type>Text</dc:type>
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  <dc:identifier>rtd-p-000228</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://rtd.theofdn.org/people/ichharam-suryaram-desai/</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://n2t.net/ark:54728/rtd-p-000228</dc:identifier>
  <dc:source>From the Collection: Gujarati Type Foundry’s 1937 Specimen Book - Letterform Archive: https://letterformarchive.org/news/gujarati-type-foundry-specimen/</dc:source>
  <dc:source>Typography of Devanagari, Volume One, pp. 314–316 (Bapurao S. Naik): https://archive.org/details/naik-1971</dc:source>
  <dc:source>Print History: Gujarati Type Foundry - Print Patriots (Murali Ranganathan): https://www.printweek.in/features/print-history-gujarati-type-foundry-print-patriots-58626</dc:source>
  <dc:source>Samples of Gujarati Type - Gujarati Type Foundry (Salomi Desai) - The Universal Thirst Gazette: https://gazette.universalthirst.com/home/samples-of-gujarati-type-gujarati-type-foundry</dc:source>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:coverage>India</dc:coverage>
  <dc:rights>CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/</dc:rights>
</oai_dc:dc>
