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Kadwa is a Devanagari typeface family designed by Sol Matas.
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It is based on the original Latin typeface <i>Bitter</i>, a slab serif typeface for text.
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People read and interact with text on screens more and more each day.
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What happens on screen ends up being more important than what comes out of the printer.
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With the accelerating popularity of electronic books, type designers are working hard to seek out the ideal designs for reading on screen.
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Motivated by Sol's love for the pixel she designed Bitter, and later Kadwa.
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A "contemporary" slab serif typeface for text, it is specially designed for comfortably reading on any computer or device.
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The robust design started from the austerity of the pixel grid, based on rational rather than emotional principles.
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It combines the large x-heights and legibility of the humanistic tradition with subtle characteristics in the characters that inject a certain rhythm to flowing texts.
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It has little variation in stroke weight and the Regular is darker than a typical typeface intended for use in print.
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This generates an intense color in paragraphs, accentuated by the serifs that are as thick as strokes, with square terminals.
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Each glyph is carefully designed with an excellent curve quality added to the first stage of the design, that was entirely made in a pixel grid.
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The typeface is balanced and manually spaced to use very few kerning pairs, especially important for web font use since most browsers do not currently support this feature.
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The Kadwa project is led by Sol Matas, a type designer based in Berlin, Germany.
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To contribute, see <a href="https://github.com/solmatas/Kadwa">github.com/solmatas/Kadwa</a>
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