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

[Andrew Ollett]

This has come up before on this list, but:

https://adishila.com/fonts/

On Sun, May 11, 2025, 3:20 PM Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> INDOLOGY mailing list
>> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info
>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> INDOLOGY mailing list
> INDOLOGY at list.indology.info
> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://list.indology.info/pipermail/indology/attachments/20250511/1af85283/attachment.htm>