Suman Bhandary

MATD @UniRdg_typo

[Suman Bhandary @meet_typefaced]

ALKATRA is now live on Google Fonts!! Super happy to share the new display font family. My sincere gratitude to @davelab6 🙏

Special thanks to Lewis McGuffie, Nehal Ann Mathew, Lopamudra Bose for their contributions during the project.

https://t.co/SwalD2vG7X

[Suman Bhandary @meet_typefaced]

#NetflixIndia #devanagari #fonts #film #alkatra #india #bharat #letterform #graphicdesign #typesesign #displaytype #multiscripttypography #graffiti #indianscript #opensource #storytelling #madeinindia #madefortheworld #2023year #gratitude 3/3

[Suman Bhandary @meet_typefaced]

#Fontinuse !! Alkatra #Devanagari used for the opening titles of the film #MissionRaniganj released on #Netflix ! It is great to see the font being used in the first frame of the film. The first few slides share a premise of the narrative using images and facts from the past. 1/3

[Suman Bhandary @meet_typefaced]

It is always great to see the font being utilised to create relevant and meaningful pieces of communication. I also belong to the region on which the film is based on. It feels good to have contributed to such regional narratives and storytelling. #typeface #typefacedesign 2/3

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The 13th Century CE, Indian poet and saint Gyandev created a children's game called Moksha Patam. The British later named it as Snakes and Ladders instead of retaining the original Moksha Patam.

Originally, the game was used as a part of moral instruction to children. The squares in which ladders start were each supposed to stand for a virtue, and those housing the head of a snake were supposed to stand for an evil. The snakes outnumbered the ladders in the original Hindu game. The game was transported to England by the colonial rulers in the latter part of the 19th Century CE, with some modifications.

In the original one, a ‘hundred squares game board’, the 12th square was faith, the 51st square was reliability, the 57th square was generosity, the 76th square was knowledge, and the 78th square was asceticism. These were the squares where the ladders were found and one could move ahead faster.

The 41st square was for disobedience, the 44th square for arrogance, the 49th square for vulgarity, the 52nd square for theft, the 58th square for lying, the 62nd square for drunkenness, the 69th square for debt, the 84th square for anger, the 92nd square for greed, the 95th square for pride, the 73rd square for murder and the 99th square for lust. These were the squares where the snake waited with their mouth open.

The 100th square represented Nirvana or Moksha.The tops of each ladder depicted a God, or one of the various heavens (Kailash, Vaikunth , Brahmalok) and so on. As the game progressed various actions were supposed to take you up and down the board as in life..The game had been interpreted and used as a tool for teaching the effects of good deeds versus bad ones.

The game was popular in ancient India. It was also associated with traditional Sanatan philosophy contrasting karma and kama, or destiny and desire. It emphasized destiny, as opposed to games such as pachisi, which focused on life as a mixture of skill and luck. The underlying ideals of the game inspired a version introduced in Victorian England in 1892.

The modified game was named Snakes and Ladders and stripped of its moral and religious aspects and the number of ladders and snakes were equalized. In 1943, the game was introduced in the US under the name Chutes and Ladders.

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[Suman Bhandary @meet_typefaced]

@zolve_official I hope you realise/know that one cannot DM unless it is a verified account. I am not a verified user and wont share the email unless I receive a DM from your account.

[Suman Bhandary @meet_typefaced]

#Pathetic #support from @zolve_official . In a month of using their services, there have been payment disputes, unresolved issues with bank routing numbers & payment declines. Definitely not referring it to people relocating to #USA.
#agony #frustrating #poorservice

[British Museum @britishmuseum]

‘We're all mad here!’ 🐰 🎩

The Mad Hatter’s tea party is one of the most iconic scenes from Lewis Carroll’s (1832–1898) surreal story, ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ 🃏

This magical illustration is the work of Sir John Tenniel (1820–1914) ✏ https://t.co/8VUaIX8T2c

[British Museum @britishmuseum]

The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the Museum – but what is it?

🗝 On the 201st anniversary of its decipherment, head to our blog to learn how this ancient stone unlocked the secrets of one of the world’s oldest civilizations https://t.co/WBygaswMLu

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

On many Japanese toilets, the hand wash sink is attached so that you can wash your hands and reuse the water for the next flush. Japan saves millions of liters of water every year doing this.

[Typotheque @typotheque]

To work with multilingual and multiscript typefaces one needs specific terminology to address the specific details. @LisaLisahuang is working on such typographic encyclopedia. You could help out too. https://t.co/HUtrPFZCla

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

#AfterLife 3

[Borna Izadpanah @BornaIz]

The recording of my ATypI talk “Decolonizing Ascenders and Descenders: Resisting homogenization and encouraging diversity” at Sorbonne University is now online!
https://t.co/THaGKB84Ry

[Suman Bhandary @meet_typefaced]

Please watch it on YouTube

Link: https://t.co/mcUyQLSxdO

#alkatra #typo #typography #typeface #typefacedesign #font #documentary #watercrisis #india #climatechange #devanagari #letterform #film #youtube #desi #language #indicscript #graphicdesign

[Suman Bhandary @meet_typefaced]

Alkatra Devanagari from @googlefonts bng used 4 d title of Pipasa (meaning Thirst) a dcmnntry on the growing water crisis. Glad that my work’s bn used 4 a cause & d efforts seems to have served a purpose. Procuded by @TheLallantop , my sincere gratitude to Rajat Sain & Roohani🙏🏽

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

"What’s happening in India is not that loose variety of internet fascism. It’s the real thing." Arundhati Roy at her best. Must read.

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[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Today in pulp: can you judge a book by its cover?

Let's look at some unusual covers for popular novels and see...

[British Museum @britishmuseum]

📜 For #InternationalLiteracyDay we’re sharing this scribe’s practice tablet from Ancient Egypt 🖋

This object is the work of a trainee scribe, who has copied down the famous ‘Instruction of Amennakht’ as a writing exercise https://t.co/1Pt25uG4Vs

[Diego Tamburini @DiegoTamburini1]

Precious #textiles used as manuscript wrappers from Southeast Asia. A lovely afternoon at the @britishlibrary

[cbcp_UniRdg @cbcp_UniRdg]

We are excited to be collaborating with @typodiversity to present a series of talks & workshops on typography & type design. The first event will take place at the Dept of Typography & Graphic Communication at Reading University, UK on 15 & 16 Sept 2023. https://t.co/XXPDKRvfps