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Sumana is a family of Latin and Devanagari fonts for text setting and web usage.
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Designed by Alexei Vanyashin in 2014-2015 for Cyreal.
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The Latin counterpart is derived from Lora by Olga Karpushina, Cyreal.
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Its vertical and horizontal metrics are adjusted to better match with the Devanagari.
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The meaning of Sumana in Sanskrit is flower, which is the meaning of Lora in Spanish.
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It was quite a challenge to match the graphical characteristics of each script and took many iterations to finalise the first release.
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I tried to keep the Devanagari closer to a traditional Indian calligraphic model while flavouring it with graphic solutions derived from Lora's Latin.
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It is my first attempt to design a Devanagari, and I am thankful to Google Fonts for making this project happen, and to all experts who consulted with me on this project, including:
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Fiona Ross, Eric McLaughlin, Vaishnavi Murthy, Pria Ravichandran, and Wei Huang.
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The comments and revision history can be found in <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/topic/googlefontdirectory-discuss/UtBQ2xBlqvQ/discussion">this discussion in the Google Fonts forum</a>.
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This project is led by Cyreal, an international type foundry focused on designing contemporary Latin and Cyrillic typefaces.
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To contribute, visit <a href="https://github.com/cyrealtype/Sumana">github.com/cyrealtype/Sumana</a>
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