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Hind Kochi is a family of five Malayalam 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 Malayalam, the Hind Kochi 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 both open apertures and very open counterforms.
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The entire family feels very legible when used to set text.
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Hind Kochi’s Malayalam and Latin script components are scaled in relation to each other so that multi-script texts will sit nicely alongside each other.
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Like many other Malayalam typefaces, Hind Kochi’s characters are monolinear.
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But the specific design features added to Hind Kochi’s Malayalam features give text set in that language a nice, fresh feeling, with a very modern appearance.
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Each font in the Hind Kochi family has 530 glyphs, which includes all of the characters needed to write Malayalam.
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The Latin character set is Adobe Latin 3, enabling typesetting for English and other Western European languages.
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Hind Kochi is a solid alternate when choosing typefaces for UI design, and a wise selection for electronic display embedding.
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Dhruvi Tolia designed Hind Kochi for ITF, who first published the fonts in 2015.
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Hind Kochi is named after Kochi, a city in Kerala, India.
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The Hind Kochi 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-kochi">github.com/itfoundry/hind-kochi</a>
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