The family consists of regular, bold, italic, and bold italic styles. This new approach to a traditional script is intended to counter the dominance of rigid, staccato-like effects of straight verticals and horizontals in earlier types and many existing fonts. Together, these details reveal an original hand and provide a contemporary approach that is clean, clear and comfortable to read whether in short or long passages of text. To achieve a dynamic, fluid style the design features a rounded treatment of distinguishing terminals and stroke reversals, open counters that also aid legibility at smaller sizes, and delicately flaring strokes. The construction of the letters is based on traditional penmanship but possesses less stroke contrast than many Devanagari types, in order to maintain strong, legible forms at smaller sizes. The design was conceived by Tim Holloway and Fiona Ross, Tim being the principal designer of the artworkВ in collaboration with Fiona and supported by John Hudson.

All of these families are currently available for purchase from Fontspring.ДЄdobe Devanagari was the first of AdobeвЂ™s Indian font families, and was designed for Adobe by the team at Tiro Typeworks beginning in 2005. These new type families follow the release of two other Adobe type families for Indian languages, Adobe Devanagari and Adobe Gurmukhi, which have already been available for some time. The designs have been completed with print work in mind, as traditional publishing is still very much a vibrant industry within India.

Each of these families consists of two styles: a regular and a bold. Adobe TamilВ and Adobe GujaratiВ were both released over the weekend, bringing the number of Indian writing systems supported by the Adobe Type Library to a total of four.

It is with great personal pride and relish that I announce the release of two new Adobe font families for Indian languages.