R K Joshi

ARK https://n2t.net/ark:54728/rtd-p-000043

Roles

type designer, typographer, educator

Dates

1936 – 2008

Nationality

Indian

Designed Raghu, the first Devanagari typeface built for OpenType, and core Indian-script fonts for Microsoft Windows. Trained as a calligrapher, reframing Indic typography as rigorous design infrastructure.

Typefaces

• Raghudesigner

Sources

• The Multilinguascriptic Life of R. K. Joshi - Letterform Archive
• From Hand-Painted Signboards To Contemporary Typefaces - Homegrown India

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