India is a land of diverse cultures and traditions. As a result, it has many languages that people use to communicate across various geographies of the nation.
However, it is said that Indian languages didn’t get attention in the world of fonts until the past few years.
Not anymore! With the need to personalize experiences for users, it became quite important for designers and creators to actually dig into Indian languages to improve the user experience of any product. Lack of information on Indic-type fonts.Using technology to align the letters to create patterns.Addressing different structures and aesthetics of various languages in India (A country with 22 official languages and almost 1600 including dialects).Experienced professionals such as analysts, engineers, programmers, managers, artists, writers, entrepreneurs and designers.Most software was created with Latin-type design in mind and could not support complex Indian languages in the Unicode system.This article talks about Indian typeface foundries that acknowledged the need for Indian languages in fonts and designs altogether.