Kimya Gandhi is a type designer from Mumbai with a passionate interest in Indic type design. She is an alumnus of National institute of Fashion Technology and Industrial Design Centre, IIT Mumbai. She got her professional start interning at Linotype in 2010. Over the next few years she freelanced for several type foundries catering to their multi-script requirements. In 2015, she became a partner at Mota Italic and now focuses on Indic and Latin designs for retail and custom corporate projects. On this episode, we talk about Kimya’s journey as a designer and about some of her key type design projects. She also talks about the unique challenges of designing fonts for Indic scripts and about business aspects of the type design industry.RELEVANT LINKSKimya Gandhi - kimyagandhi.wordpress.comMotaitalic type foundry - www.motaitalic.comMadh Island - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madh_IslandNIFT - nift.ac.inFashion Communication - www.nift.ac.in/bdesfcNID - www.nid.eduLettering - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LetteringIDC, IIT Mumbai - www.idc.iitb.ac.inWhite Crow Design - whitecrow.inType Design at Univ. of Reading - typefacedesign.netType Design at KABK, Netherlands - www.kabk.nl/en/programmes/master/type-and-mediaCDAC - cdac.inFontographer - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FontographerProf. Kirti Trivedi - www.idc.iitb.ac.in/kirti/index.html
Kohei Sugiura - www.academia.edu/28689470/Kohei_Sugiura_Graphic_Design_Methodology_and_philosophyGurmukhi Script - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurmukhi
Mahendra Patel - designedthisway.comLinotype - www.linotype.comMonotype - www.monotype.comIndian Type Foundry - www.indiantypefoundry.comSatya Rajpurohit - www.indiantypefoundry.com/about
Devanagri - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevanagariDIN Next - www.linotype.com/517415/din-next-family.htmlJubilee - www.linotype.com/317196/jubilee-family.htmlAkira Kobayashi - www.monotype.com/studio/akira-kobayashi
Type design intensive course - http://typefacedesign.net/courses/tdi/
Cleveland Museum of Art - www.clevelandart.org
Gerry Leonidas - leonidas.net
Fiona Ross - www.reading.ac.uk/typography/about/Staff_list/f-g-e-ross.aspx
Indic Scripts - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmic_scripts
Dr Vaibhav Singh - www.reading.ac.uk/typography/about/Staff_list/v-singh2.aspx
Rob Keller - www.motaitalic.com/info/about/
Sharad Typeface Download. - setuadvertising.com/sharad76/
SETU Advertising - setuadvertising.com
Conjunct consonant - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunct_consonant
Maku Typeface - www.motaitalic.com/product/maku/
Dingbats - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat
Glyphs App - glyphsapp.comRobofont - robofont.com
Chikki Typeface - www.motaitalic.com/product/chikki/Chikki, the food - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChikkiBoaty, McBoatface - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatfaceShirorekha - idc.iitb.ac.in/resources/dt-jan-2009/Anatomy%20of%20Devanagari.pdfPhysics Envy - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_envy
Link to my upcoming Gurumukhi Type Inspiration (Mentioned in the podcast) - www.instagram.com/p/BrzbZT3Hxqr/
Golden Temple - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_TempleType Design Resources from Motaitalic - www.motaitalic.com/info/type-design-resources/
David Jonathan Ross - djr.com
Inga Plönnigs - www.ingaploennigs.comOTF - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTypeTTF - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueTypeWOFF - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Open_Font_Format
Futurefonts - www.futurefonts.xyzEULA - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement
Apache License - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_License
Danfo Std by Da Design - dadesign.studio/work/danfo-std