[INDOLOGY] Clarification: Early 20th century Indian publishers and fonts

[Madhav Deshpande]

The Nirnaya Sagar Press had its own type foundry. They were preceded in
this task by another press in Mumbai run by Ganpat Krishnaji. The Bombay
government under the British started publishing Devanagari tracts perhaps
using fonts made by some Bengal outfit.
While designing my Madhushree [pre-Unicode] font, I had tried to copy the
Nirnaya Sagar font. Now perhaps Sanskrit2003 font comes close to Nirnaya
Sagar.

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann  Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

>
> I meant to write:
>
> Dear list members,
>
> Would anyone know:
> 1) Did the larger early 20th century Indian publishers such as Vidya Vlas
> Press, Nirnaya-sagar press, and others use the same typeface to typeset
> their publications, or did each publisher have its own unique typeface.
>
> 2) Has anyone made a modern unicode font to mirror the typeface used by
> Nirnaya-sagar press.
>
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
>
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