The Devanagari font search tool (देवनागरी फॉन्ट शोध साधन) is an interactive visual-feature based font search system for Devanagari typefaces. The tool provides an intuitive and user-friendly method to search and browse through a large number of fonts and is primarily meant as an educational and search aid, for students and type designers. We have equipped the tool with filtering capabilities (facets) which can be used for quickly identifying unknown typefaces. It also allows exploratory tasks, which can be useful, as it makes browsing through similar typefaces (typefaces with similar visual properties) simpler. The database for the fonts is curated by faculty and staff from IDC IIT Bombay and contains fonts and notes collected over the years, please feel free to contact us if you wish to contribute to the project.
The Devanagari Font Search tool is based on the Conceptual model for Devanagari Typefaces developed by Girish Dalvi during his PhD at IIT Bombay. The tool is primarily meant as an educational and search aid, for students and type designers.
Students and Designers often complain about the lack of resources available to them to carry out their Devanagari typography projects. We have consolidated a list of resources which will probably fulfill most of the requirements of most projects.
Devanagari Typography has a long and complex history, most of it remains unwritten and undocumented. A significant amount of work has not been appreciated or analysed — original Devanagari font designers have rarely been acknowledged.
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