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Lekhak Devanagari

Lekhak Devanagari

by Indian Type Foundry
Individual Styles from $80.00 USD
Complete family of 5 fonts: $260.00 USD
Lekhak Devanagari Font Family was designed by Parvez Ansari and published by Indian Type Foundry. Lekhak Devanagari contains 5 styles and family package options.

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About Lekhak Devanagari Font Family


Lekhak Devanagari is a casual handwriting typeface designed for the Devanagari script. Its letterforms feature monolinear strokes set at a slight angle. Text set in the typeface leans a bit to the right, giving the feeling that it was both written quickly and that its message moves ahead speedily. Lekhak Devanagari ships in two different formats: users can install a single Variable Font or use the five static Lekhak Devanagari OpenType font files. The static format’s stroke weights range in thickness from Light through Bold. While that offers a fine amount of intermediary steps for creating typographic contrast, users who install the Variable Font instead have a vastly greater degree of control over their text’s stroke thicknesses. The Variable Font provides almost 1,000 subtly differentiated font-weight possibilities, allowing users to fine-tune the appearance that text should have on-screen or in print. Lekhak Devanagari’s casual nature is visible throughout the character set’s design. Base-characters’ strokes often start above the shiro-rekha (headline). Plenty of space is given to the typeface’s vowel marks, making them quite prominent in text. Loops and knots all have visible counters inside them (none are completely ‘closed’). Some of the counters are explicitly open, with their strokes not returning to a ‘branch’ or ‘trunk’. Lekhak Devanagari was designed in-house at ITF by Parvez Ansari. In Hindi, the word Lekhak means ‘writer’.

Designers: Parvez Ansari

Publisher: Indian Type Foundry

Foundry: Indian Type Foundry

Design Owner: Indian Type Foundry

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Lekhak Devanagari

About Indian Type Foundry

Founded in 2009, the Indian Type Foundry (ITF) designs and distributes fine-quality, multilingual fonts for both the Indian and global market. ITF specialises in creating and developing both custom and retail fonts. ITF has designed and licensed fonts to some of the world’s most iconic brands including Apple, Google, Samsung, Sony, Amazon and Hyundai to name just a few. Its retail library offers fonts for text and display use, in visual styles ranging from traditional to experimental. ITF currently offers over 200 retail font families across 20 writing systems. ITF’s Kohinoor font family is on permanent display at London’s Design Museum as part of the “Designer Maker User” exhibition, which recognises this work as a historic milestone in the field of graphic design.

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