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During the 1920s, Central European type foundries joined the modernists movements in art and design.
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Modernism was truly international in scope; only three years after the founding of the German Bauhaus school, several of its painting instructors were already exhibiting their work in Calcutta.
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Geometric sans serif typefaces have been a popular design element ever since these actors took to the world’s stage.
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Poppins is one of the newest comer to this long tradition.
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An open source family supporting both Devanagari and Latin, this typeface is an internationalist take on the geometric sans genre.
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Many of the Latin glyphs — the ampersand, for instance — are far more constructed and rationalist than in previously released geometric typefaces.
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Poppins’s Devanagari design is particularly new.
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It is likely the first-ever large Devanagari family in this style that has been brought to market.
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The Poppins family includes five weights, from Light through Bold.
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Each font includes 1014 glyphs, including all of the unique conjunct forms necessary for typesetting Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, etc.
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Just like the Latin glyphs, the Devanagari forms in Poppins are based pure geometry (particularly circles).
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Poppins’s letters are practically monolinear, although optical corrections have been applied to stroke joints where necessary, to maintain an even colour in text.
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The Devanagari base character height and the Latin ascender height are equal; Latin capital letters are shorter than the Devanagari characters, and the Latin x-height is set rather high.
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The Devanagari glyphs in Poppins were designed by Ninad Kale.
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The Latin is from Jonny Pinhorn.
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The Indian Type Foundry first published Poppins in 2014.
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This project is led by Indian Type Foundry, a type foundry based in Ahmedabad, Gujurat, India, who design contemporary Indian typeface families.
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To contribute, see <a href="https://github.com/itfoundry/poppins">github.com/itfoundry/poppins</a>
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