body typeface design fortolong siki

| IITB

Project Guide: Prof. Mandar Rane Co Guide: Prof. Mahendra C Patel Project by, Xaxa Aman Rupesh VC 10625006

IIT Bombay

| IITB VCP602 Body Typeface Design for Tolong Siki [Xaxa Aman Rupesh]

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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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locator_map.svg/2000px-

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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


Text Sizes: 14pt

Leading: 15pt

Text Color: Black

Weights: Black, Bold,

Regular, Thin


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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



Text Color: Black


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Size of paper: A4



Line Spacing: 13.2pt

Text Color: White


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Size of paper: A4



Line Spacing: 13.2pt

Text Color: Black


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Size of paper: A4


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.

body typeface design fortolong siki

Documents

tolong siki xaxa aman

xaxa aman rupesh vc

mini project body typeface

iitb project guide

states of jharkhand

state of jharkhand

digital typeface available

tribal groups http