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Khand is a family of compact mono-linear fonts with very open counter forms. Developed for display typography, the family is primarily intended for headline usage.
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Its letterforms are dynamic, and everything is designed according to a modular system.
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All of its shapes bear a strong commonality to one another, but the typeface strikes a good balancing act and avoids too much repetitiveness.
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The lighter styles are suitable for short paragraphs of running text, while the heavier styles have been optimized for headlines or single word settings.
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The base character height in the Khand fonts is ‘big on the body.’
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Across a line of text, the consonantal forms take up the majority of vertical space.
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Vowel marks above and below have been shortened – keeping these to a minimum allows for lines of text to be set more closely together vertically.
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The reduction of interlinear space is paramount for successful headline typesetting, and Khand performs much better in display applications than similar fonts with more elongated vowel marks.
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Because of their reduced height, the typeface’s vowel mark forms have been simplified somewhat out of necessity, but this stylistic reduction is in-keeping with the modular feeling of the typeface’s overall design.
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Dot-shaped marks appear rounded in order to help maintain their differentiation from other marks.
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Khand’s Devanagari component was designed by Sanchit Sawaria and Jyotish Sonowal.
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The Latin component was designed by Satya Rajpurohit.
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To contribute, see <a href="https://github.com/itfoundry/khand">github.com/itfoundry/khand</a>
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