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| Modak is a sweet plump Devanagari+Latin display typeface with portly curves and thin counters. |
| It is Unicode compliant and is open sourced under the SIL Open Font License v1.1. |
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| Modak began as a heavy hand-sketched letterform exploration in Devanagari with cute, adorable characters whose curves merged into each other, forming distinct counter shapes. |
| As we translated these into a functional font, each character was fine-tuned and multiple matras designed to match precisely with every character. |
| Unlike the conventional approach the post-base matras in Modak overlap the consonants. |
| Likewise overlapping ukars were also designed leaving thin counters in between. |
| Rather than being a mere composite of 2 separate glyphs, every conjunct was redrawn as a single entity. |
| The challenge was to maintain legibility and consistency in the thin white counter spaces across all characters irrespective of their structural complexity. |
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| The resulting typeface is one of its kind and most likely the chubbiest Devanagari typeface to be designed so far. |
| Modak Devanagari is designed by Sarang Kulkarni and Maithili Shingre and Modak Latin by Noopur Datye with support from Girish Dalvi. |
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| We are immensely thankful to Santosh Kshirsagar, Pradnya Naik and Yashodeep Gholap for their suggestions and feedback during the font design process. |
| We are also grateful to our friends from the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay and Sir J J Institute of Applied Art for their support and encouragement. |
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| This project is led by Ek Type, a collective of type designers based in Mumbai focused on designing contemporary Indian typefaces. |
| To contribute, see |
| <a href="https://github.com/girish-dalvi/Modak"> |
| github.com/girish-dalvi/Modak |
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