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Indian Type Foundry

Indian Type Foundry is credited on 22 families in the library. The first was added in 2014 and the latest in 2016. By class: 14 sans serifs, four serifs, three display faces, one handwriting face. One is a variable font. The most frequent co-credit is Jonny Pinhorn, on 1 family.

The familiesIn order of addition, each name set in its own outlines

HindSans serif · 2014 · weights 300–700 (5)

KarmaSerif · 2014 · weights 300–700 (5)

TekoSans serif · 2014 · weights 300–700

RajdhaniSans serif · 2014 · weights 300–700 (5)

KhandSans serif · 2014 · weights 300–700 (5)

Rozha OneSerif · 2014 · weights 400

HalantSerif · 2014 · weights 300–700 (5)

LailaSerif · 2014 · weights 300–700 (5)

SarpanchSans serif · 2014 · weights 400–900 (6)

KalamHandwriting · 2014 · weights 300–700 (3)

PoppinsSans serif · 2015 · weights 100–900 (9)

TillanaDisplay · 2015 · weights 400–800 (5)

Hind SiliguriSans serif · 2015 · weights 300–700 (5)

Hind VadodaraSans serif · 2015 · weights 300–700 (5)

Hind ColomboSans serif · 2016 · weights 300–700 (5)

Hind GunturSans serif · 2016 · weights 300–700 (5)

Hind JalandharSans serif · 2016 · weights 300–700 (5)

Hind KochiSans serif · 2016 · weights 300–700 (5)

Hind MaduraiSans serif · 2016 · weights 300–700 (5)

Hind MysuruSans serif · 2016 · weights 300–700 (5)

Kumar One OutlineDisplay · 2016 · weights 400

Kumar OneDisplay · 2016 · weights 400

Range of the work

The lowercase runs from Rozha One, the shortest at 460 units per 1,000 em, to Kumar One Outline at 600. In width, Teko is the narrowest (331) and Kumar One the widest (700). Beyond Latin, the families cover nine subsets: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu. Measured against the medians of their own classes, nine of the 22 families with ascenders have a taller x-height, seven of all 22 set a wider lowercase and five a darker one.

Against the class medianDifferences from the median of each family’s class, per 1,000 em; ink in percentage points

Family	Class	x-height	Width	Ink	Weights	Subsets
Kumar One	Display	+93	+194	+15 pts	400	3
Kumar One Outline	Display	+93	+193	−16 pts	400	3
Kalam	Handwriting	+66	+35	+1 pts	300–700 (3)	3
Khand	Sans serif	+50	−127	−1 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Laila	Serif	+35	+4	−2 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Tillana	Display	+33	−45	−10 pts	400–800 (5)	3
Poppins	Sans serif	+29	+40	+1 pts	100–900 (9) + italic	3
Halant	Serif	+22	−34	−8 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Karma	Serif	+7	−25	−4 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Rajdhani	Sans serif	−9	−78	−13 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Hind	Sans serif	−11	−36	−1 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Hind Colombo	Sans serif	−11	−36	−1 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Hind Guntur	Sans serif	−11	−36	−1 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Hind Jalandhar	Sans serif	−11	−36	−1 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Hind Kochi	Sans serif	−11	−36	−1 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Hind Madurai	Sans serif	−11	−36	−1 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Hind Mysuru	Sans serif	−11	−36	−1 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Hind Siliguri	Sans serif	−11	−36	−1 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Hind Vadodara	Sans serif	−11	−36	−1 pts	300–700 (5)	3
Rozha One	Serif	−22	+32	+12 pts	400	3
Teko	Sans serif	−31	−190	+19 pts	300–700	3
Sarpanch	Sans serif	−34	+45	−3 pts	400–900 (6)	3