Dear Krishnaprasad,

I am really interested in your font work.  I have two main comments, that I hope will be welcome.

First, one of the major features of the NS font is the small space in the mātrā line between akṣaras.  In your font, you have made a continuous head-line.  I think the small spaces, which emulate the usage of many manuscript scribes, is a major aid to legibility.  I also consider it aesthetically pleasing.

My friend Alessandro Graheli has also made a Devanagari font recently.  He used it in his 2015 book on Jayanta, but he does not yet consider it ready for public release.  I attach a sample from the book.   Alessandro thought a lot about design, and with sophistication.  He decided that a main feature of his font would be the small mātrā-spaces between akṣaras, and you will see the result in the attached page.  I think it works really well.  If one isn't alerted to the fact, one hardly notices it; yet it aids smooth reading.

The second comment I wish to make concerns the shaping of vertical strokes in your font.  In the original NS font samples, the vertical strokes do not have parallel sides.  They swell slightly from top to bottom.  This is like an extended serif.  Again, I think it adds a unique flavour of the NS fonts, and again aids legibility, visually balancing the complexity of the upper parts of the Devanagari letters with a little weight at the bottom parts.   See the attached scans of your samples, with my comments.

Thank you again for your work!  This is going to be great, when you are finished.

Best,

Dominik

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Professor Dominik Wujastyk

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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity

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Department of History and Classics

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University of Alberta, Canada

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South Asia at the U of A:

 

sas.ualberta.ca

On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 10:07, Krishnaprasad G via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 10:32 PM Krishnaprasad G <krishnaprasadah.g@gmail.com> wrote:

First 3 images are wrong. Please ignore

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 10:31 PM Krishnaprasad G <krishnaprasadah.g@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all 

difficulty is selecting द cause the book has more than 5 designs

Nirnaya Sagara fonts 

 

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