Hari Govind Govil
ARK https://n2t.net/ark:54728/rtd-p-000243
- Roles
- type designer
- Nationality
- Indian
- Scripts
- Devanagari
Designed the Devanagari scheme for the Mergenthaler Linotype, launched in 1933 and patented in the US in 1937, splitting characters into combinable segments.
See also
Sources
- Invisible hands: tracing the origins and development of the Devanagari Linotype - University of Reading (archived copy)
- Devanagari Script for the Mergenthaler Linotype - Smithsonian Lemelson Center (archived copy)
- US Patent 2,074,216, Typographical font, H. G. Govil (archived copy)
- Typography of Devanagari, Volume Two, pp. 401–403 (Bapurao S. Naik)
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