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Hind Mysuru is a family of five Kannada fonts, which are part of the Indian Type Foundry’s larger Open Source Hind Multi-Script project.
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Hind Multi-Script is a type system providing nine stylistically-matching font families – one for each of the following writing systems used in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Sinhala.
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In addition to Kannada, the Hind Mysuru fonts also include Latin-script characters.
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Developed explicitly for use in User Interface design, Hind’s letterforms have a humanist-style construction, paired with seemingly monolinear strokes.
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Most of these strokes have flat endings: they either terminate with a horizontal or a vertical shear, rather than on a diagonal.
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This helps create clear-cut counter forms between the characters.
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Additionally, Hind’s letterforms feature open apertures and counterforms.
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The entire family feels very legible when used to set text.
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Hind Mysuru’s Kannada and Latin script components are scaled in relation to each other so that multi-script texts will sits nicely alongside each other.
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Since Hind Mysuru’s Kannada characters are monolinear, they have a nice, fresh feeling, and appear very modern.
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Aside from the Latin glyphs, each of the five Hind Mysuru fonts has 444 Kannada glyphs, including many unique conjuncts.
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These ensure full support for the writing of the Kannada language.
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The Latin script’s character set is Adobe Latin 3, enabling the typesetting of English and other Western European languages.
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Hind Mysuru is a solid alternate when choosing typefaces for UI design, and a wise selection for electronic display embedding.
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Manushi Parikh designed Hind Mysuru for ITF, who first published the fonts in 2015.
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Hind Mysuru is named after Mysuru, a city in Karnataka, India.
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The Hind Mysuru project is led by Indian Type Foundry, a type design foundry based in Ahmedabad, India.
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To contribute, see <a href="https://github.com/itfoundry/hind-mysuru">github.com/itfoundry/hind-mysuru</a>
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