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Modak is a sweet plump Devanagari+Latin display typeface with portly curves and thin counters.
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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.
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As we translated these into a functional font, each character was fine-tuned and multiple matras designed to match precisely with every character.
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Unlike the conventional approach the post-base matras in Modak overlap the consonants.
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Likewise overlapping ukars were also designed leaving thin counters in between.
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Rather than being a mere composite of 2 separate glyphs, every conjunct was redrawn as a single entity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To contribute, see <a href="https://github.com/girish-dalvi/Modak">github.com/girish-dalvi/Modak</a>
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