body typeface design fortolong siki
DESCRIPTION
Academic project done at IDC IITBTRANSCRIPT
| IITB
Project Guide: Prof. Mandar Rane Co Guide: Prof. Mahendra C Patel Project by, Xaxa Aman Rupesh VC 10625006
IIT Bombay
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A continuation of the Mini Project
• Body Typeface in 5-14 points.
• Comfortable to read.
• Blends in and doesn’t distract.
• Humanistic.
Working OTF containing all 103 glyphs.
• Script designed from scratch.
• Released a decade back for Kurux.
• Only hand written versions of the script.
• There was no digital typeface available and
only in near past year the books have got a
digital version.
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* a stretch of cloth worn around the waist by menfolk in the tribal belt of the Chota Nagpur plateau
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• Chota Nagpur comprises of states of
Jharkhand and parts of Orissa, West
Bengal, Bihar and Chhattisgarh.
• "Jharkhand" means,
"The Land of Forests".
• Carved out of the southern part of Bihar
on 15 November 2000
• Home to 32 tribal groups
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• Kurux traces its language origins to
that of Dravidian family.
• 23rd most spoken language having
a ratio of 0.17% according to 2001
census in India.
• Second largest tribal language
spoken in the state of Jharkhand.
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• Kurux literature has been developing and
various writing works are taking place.
• Research work has been going well.
Inspiration by the foreign missionaries and
authors, tribal people are awakening and
interesting in area of literature.
• Released close to decade
back on May 15, 1999.
• Earlier the Latin or
Devanagari script was
employed for recording
them.
• The concept is from
nature and tribal lifestyle.
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One such ritual is called ‘Dande Kattana’, the
pattern used in this ritual along with the
numerical signs have been used to make a
twenty two segment display system which is
the basis of all the glyphs and numericals.
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Character: bh
Segment Value:
NICDEFGHMQ
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New Explorations
• Edited and modified to break its
highly geometric form by
introducing a much softer outline.
Conceptual framework
• Explore a few more tools once
again in addition to the
explorations done initially.
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pPbBs gmG tT
cCjJ wWqQ
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xY knKNOV
lv dD zZ
yrhAaeuio
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The first attempt included
manipulating the grid in three
following manners.
• round horizontally
• round vertically
• round on both the sides
• using a calligraphy tool
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Exploration of tools
• Calligraphy tool
• Reed pen
• Wooden pen
• Mono thickness pen
• Split bamboo tool
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A need was felt to study the way
people would write the script and
pick up clues as to how they would
be writing the new script and use it
in designing the new typeface.
• Slant
• Stress on the loop
• Character of the terminals
hindustan
industan
industan
industan
industan
industan
industan
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The mono thickness with a
slight slant
• Mono thickness
• Slight writing flow slant.
• Angular Stress of Counter
• Humanist
• Terminals ending at
right angles. Overall, the font had to reflect the writing style of the people
Grid 1:7[Stroke Width: Height]
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Intermediate Loop End loop Upper Overshoot Lower Overshoot
Terminals ending at right angles Open counter Joinery detail
Horizontal stroke
• Digitizing the drawings
• Spacing
• Taking Prints
• Correcting
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First set of characters from the
Font generated.
• Fontname: IDCxaxatolong
• Weight: Regular
• Filetype: Open Type
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Vowels
Consonants
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Consonants
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Consonants
Numerals
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Special Characters
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Size of paper: A4
Orientation: Portrait
Text Sizes: 4-32pts
Text Color: Black
Weights: Black, Bold,
Regular, Thin
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Size of paper: A4
Orientation: Portrait
Text Sizes: 14pt
Leading: 15pt
Text Color: Black
Weights: Black, Bold,
Regular, Thin
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/India_Jharkhand_locator_map.svg/2000px-India_Jharkhand_locator_map.svg.png
Size of paper:
9.5x4.5cm
Orientation: Landscape
Text Sizes: 14,12,4pts
Text Color: Black
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Size of paper:
9.5x4.5cm
Orientation: Landscape
Text Sizes: 14,12,4pts
Text Color: Black
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/India_Jharkhand_locator_map.svg/2000px-India_Jharkhand_locator_map.svg.png Image from: http://ozarkhoneymoon.com/bluebird%20in%20forest%202007%20good.jpg
Size of paper: A4
Orientation: Landscape
Text Sizes: 18,9,11pts
Line Spacing: 13.2pt
Text Color: White
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/India_Jharkhand_locator_map.svg/2000px-India_Jharkhand_locator_map.svg.png Image from: http://www.ickr.com/photos/abhishek727/4161601738/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Size of paper: A4
Orientation: Landscape
Text Sizes: 18,9,11pts
Line Spacing: 13.2pt
Text Color: Black
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/India_Jharkhand_locator_map.svg/2000px-India_Jharkhand_locator_map.svg.png
Size of paper: A4
Orientation: Portrait
Paper text Sizes:
19,9,6pts
Line Spacing: 12pt
Text Color: Black
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• Raised questions of much larger
issue in terms of language and
new scripts.
• The further course of action
developing these in weights and
making a family.