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 < [email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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