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Kalam is a handwriting-style typeface supporting the Devanagari and Latin scripts.
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This is an Open Source font family first published by the Indian Type Foundry in 2014.
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Even though Kalam's letterforms derive from handwriting, the fonts have each been optimised for text on screen.
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All in all, the typeface is a design that feels very personal.
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Like many informal handwriting-style fonts, it appears rather fresh and new when seen on screen or printed on the page.
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Kalam's letterforms feature a very steep slant from the top right to the bottom left.
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They are similar to letters used in everyday handwriting, and look like they might have been written with either a thin felt-tip pen, or a ball-point pen.
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In the Devanagari letterforms, the knotted-terminals are open, but some other counter forms are closed.
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Features like these strengthen the feeling that text set in this typeface has been written very quickly, in a rapid manner.
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Kalam is available in three weights: Light, Regular and Bold.
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Each font contains 1,025 glyphs, which includes many unique Devanagari conjuncts.
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These ensure full support for the major languages written with the Devanagari script.
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The Latin component's character set is a basic western one, which enables typesetting in English and the other Western European languages.
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Lipi Raval and Jonny Pinhorn developed the family for ITF; Raval designed the Devanagari component while she and Pinhorn worked together on the Latin.
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The Kalam project is led by Indian Type Foundry, a type design foundry based in Ahmedabad, India. To contribute, see <a href="https://github.com/itfoundry/kalam">github.com/itfoundry/kalam</a>
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<b>Updated July 2015:</b> Updated to v2.001 with improved OpenType features.
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