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@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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