Javaji Dadaji Chaudhari (1839-1892) Registry of Type Design type founder punchcutter Devanagari Gujarati Founded a type foundry in Bombay in 1864 and the Nirnaya Sagar Press in 1869, cutting punches himself. His foundry issued twenty Marathi, fifteen Gujarati and forty English heading founts. O Foundation 2026-10-19 Text text/html rtd-p-000238 https://rtd.theofdn.org/people/javaji-dadaji-chaudhari/ https://n2t.net/ark:54728/rtd-p-000238 Typography of Devanagari, Volume One, pp. 307–314 (Bapurao S. Naik): https://archive.org/details/naik-1971 Devanagari: the makings of a national character - Typotheque: https://www.typotheque.com/research/devanagari-the-makings-of-a-national-character en India CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/