ALKATRA is now live on Google Fonts!! Super happy to share the new display font family. My sincere gratitude to @davelab6 🙏 Special thanks to Lewis McGuffie, Nehal Ann Mathew, Lopamudra Bose for their contributions during the project. https://t.co/SwalD2vG7X

#NetflixIndia #devanagari #fonts #film #alkatra #india #bharat #letterform #graphicdesign #typesesign #displaytype #multiscripttypography #graffiti #indianscript #opensource #storytelling #madeinindia #madefortheworld #2023year #gratitude 3/3

It is always great to see the font being utilised to create relevant and meaningful pieces of communication. I also belong to the region on which the film is based on. It feels good to have contributed to such regional narratives and storytelling. #typeface #typefacedesign 2/3

#Fontinuse !! Alkatra #Devanagari used for the opening titles of the film #MissionRaniganj released on #Netflix ! It is great to see the font being used in the first frame of the film. The first few slides share a premise of the narrative using images and facts from the past. 1/3

The 13th Century CE, Indian poet and saint Gyandev created a children's game called Moksha Patam. The British later named it as Snakes and Ladders instead of retaining the original Moksha Patam. Originally, the game was used as a part of moral instruction to children. The

#Pathetic #support from @zolve_official . In a month of using their services, there have been payment disputes, unresolved issues with bank routing numbers & payment declines. Definitely not referring it to people relocating to #USA. #agony #frustrating #poorservice

‘We're all mad here!’ 🐰 🎩 The Mad Hatter’s tea party is one of the most iconic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s (1832–1898) surreal story, ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ 🃏 This magical illustration is the work of Sir John Tenniel (1820–1914) ✏ https://t.co/8VUaIX8T2c

The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the Museum – but what is it? 🗝 On the 201st anniversary of its decipherment, head to our blog to learn how this ancient stone unlocked the secrets of one of the world’s oldest civilizations https://t.co/WBygaswMLu

On many Japanese toilets, the hand wash sink is attached so that you can wash your hands and reuse the water for the next flush. Japan saves millions of liters of water every year doing this.

To work with multilingual and multiscript typefaces one needs specific terminology to address the specific details. @LisaLisahuang is working on such typographic encyclopedia. You could help out too.

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The recording of my ATypI talk “Decolonizing Ascenders and Descenders: Resisting homogenization and encouraging diversity” at Sorbonne University is now online! https://t.co/THaGKB84Ry

Please watch it on YouTube Link: https://t.co/mcUyQLSxdO #alkatra #typo #typography #typeface #typefacedesign #font #documentary #watercrisis #india #climatechange #devanagari #letterform #film #youtube #desi #language #indicscript #graphicdesign

Alkatra Devanagari from @googlefonts bng used 4 d title of Pipasa (meaning Thirst) a dcmnntry on the growing water crisis. Glad that my work’s bn used 4 a cause & d efforts seems to have served a purpose. Procuded by @TheLallantop , my sincere gratitude to Rajat Sain & Roohani🙏🏽

"What’s happening in India is not that loose variety of internet fascism. It’s the real thing." Arundhati Roy at her best. Must read. https://t.co/db9DBv32Wv

Today in pulp: can you judge a book by its cover? Let's look at some unusual covers for popular novels and see...

📜 For #InternationalLiteracyDay we’re sharing this scribe’s practice tablet from Ancient Egypt 🖋 This object is the work of a trainee scribe, who has copied down the famous ‘Instruction of Amennakht’ as a writing exercise https://t.co/1Pt25uG4Vs

Precious #textiles used as manuscript wrappers from Southeast Asia. A lovely afternoon at the @britishlibrary

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We are excited to be collaborating with @typodiversity to present a series of talks & workshops on typography & type design. The first event will take place at the Dept of Typography & Graphic Communication at Reading University, UK on 15 & 16 Sept 2023.

Kavita Singh, go gently. In case you’ve missed it, here’s her brilliant series on miniatures, A Thousand Words https://t.co/NBbmDQUMxI