Skolar’s Indian cousins with distinct personality
The ever-growing type family Skolar will get support for even more scripts this year. It will include Devanagari and Gujarati, in an extraordinarily large type system.
The Gujarati complement is a redesign of David’s graduation typeface Surat. For the Devanagari he teamed up with Vaibhav Singh a recent graduate from the University of Reading.
With the goal to enhance the editorial and complex typography in Indian magazines, newspapers, and academic publications printed in vernacular languages, they have been working on a type system which will eventually consist of four weights of modulated style and another seven weights of monolinear style in both North Indian scripts. The first will complement the seriffed version of Skolar while the latter will complement the upcoming Skolar Sans. Yes, there will be Skolar Sans too!
With the goal to enhance the editorial and complex typography in Indian magazines, newspapers, and academic publications printed in vernacular languages, they have been working on a type system which will eventually consist of four weights of modulated style and another seven weights of monolinear style in both North Indian scripts. The first will complement the seriffed version of Skolar while the latter will complement the upcoming Skolar Sans. Yes, there will be Skolar Sans too!
The Devanagari and Gujarati complement’s, in keeping with the objectives of the Skolar type family, will cover an extensive character set providing for the requirements of specialized texts. Striking a balance between modern and traditional styles, the type family will cater to a broad range of uses aiming at graceful clarity in text sizes with fluid and distinct personality in headlines and display.
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