It comprises scripts such as Devanagari, Bangla, Latin, Tamil, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Odia and Gujarati. The font has variations of weight and width, or what one might call thinness or boldness, and narrowness or wideness of a letter. Put together in 20 months by the team at Ek Type, Anek might be one of the collective’s largest projects yet with 40 styles in 10 scripts. Being a variable font, it can be made narrower or wider to accommodate several words in a line. Anek, he adds, was designed to be a versatile display typeface, mainly for large sizes and short texts. Baloo, a multi-script design, was specifically created for headlines, multi-lingual branding, publications and Modak experiments with heavy letterforms in Devanagari script while still ensuring its readability. To illustrate, the type designer shares examples of previous typefaces from Ek Type’s repertoire. Starting each project with the objectives and outlining the requirements, Kulkarni elaborates, “Where will the font be used? What need is it fulfilling? We define these objectives to understand the visual parameters, and ensure the design caters to that sector or domain the font will be used for.”
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