Development of the Mina Font Project: Innovative application of diversity in typography - A case study
Bhandary, Suman
Bhandary, Suman
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2017-02-24
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Bhandary, Suman (2017). Development of the Mina Font Project: Innovative application of diversity in typography - A case study. Typoday 2017. https://www.typoday.in/2017/spk_papers/suman-bhandary-typoday-2017.pdf
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This paper portrays the journey and development of the Mina Font project. It documents and discusses the various phases of the project and the processes undergone throughout this project. The task was to develop a font that would be modern and contemporary but would adhere to the design language of Bangla forms. The paper discusses the readability, legibility, aesthetics and underpinning ideology of Mina, a geometric type system based on the existing Latin font family Exo designed by Natanael Gama. Mina is an attempt to reconsider the forms of the Bangla characters which could be distinctive at large point sizes but can also be read with ease at smaller sizes, in bodies of extended text.
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Presented at the 10th annual Typography Day, 23-25 February 2017, at Colombo Department of Integrated Design, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. https://www.typoday.in/2017/
The theme for the 2017 Typography Day conference is 'Typography and Diversity.’
The conference paper can be found here: https://www.typoday.in/2017/speakers.html
https://www.typoday.in/2017/spk_papers/suman-bhandary-typoday-2017.pdf
The theme for the 2017 Typography Day conference is 'Typography and Diversity.’
The conference paper can be found here: https://www.typoday.in/2017/speakers.html
https://www.typoday.in/2017/spk_papers/suman-bhandary-typoday-2017.pdf
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Typoday 2017