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Kumar is a series of matching Open Source display fonts.
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They each support the Gujarati and Latin scripts.
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The two Kumar fonts may be used together, or entirely on their own.
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<a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Kumar+One+Outline">Kumar One Outline</a> is a vertical-contrast design, in which both the downstrokes as well as the left and right-hand sides of each letterform are built up out of two parallel lines and the whites space in-between them.
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The upstrokes and typeface’s horizontals are just thin, single lines.
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Kumar One itself fills in all of the thicker empty spaces in the downstrokes/horizontals, offering letterforms that are very dark and full of contrast.
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The Kumar design is made entirely out of straight lines; all elements that would usually be drawn with soft curves are faceted, built up out of several shorter straightened-out elements.
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Text in either Kumar font shimmers like a jewel; the effect of both fonts is quite decorative.
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The Gujarati and Latin script components are scaled in relation to each other so that the Gujarati base characters are 85% as tall as the Latin uppercase.
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Text set in the Gujarati script sits nicely alongside the Latin lowercase, too.
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Kumar’s Gujarati vowel marks are all single-line, rather than double-line.
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Indeed, Kumar’s Gujarati is a very unique design; there are simply no other options like it currently available!
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Each of the Kumar fonts has 870 glyphs, including hundreds of unique Gujarati conjuncts.
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The Latin component’s character set is an extended one, which enables typesetting in English and the other Western, Central, and Eastern European languages.
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Parimal Parmar designed Kumar for Indian Type Foundry in 2016.
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The Kumar project is led by Indian Type Foundry, a type design foundry based in Ahmedabad, India.
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To contribute, see <a href="https://github.com/itfoundry/kumar">github.com/itfoundry/kumar</a>
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