Rachana Institute of Typography, in association with KaChaTaThaPa Foundation and Sayahna Foundation, is launching a Malayalam font design competition for students, professionals, and amateur designers. Selected fonts will be published under Open Font License for free use. It is not necessary to know details of font technology; skills to design characters would suffice. Timelines, regulations,…
‘Chingam’/ചിങ്ങം (named after the first month of Malayalam calendar) is the newest libre/open source font released by Rachana Institute of Typography in the year 2024. It comes with a regular variant, embellished with stylistic alternates for a number of characters. The default shape of characters D, O, ഠ, ാ etc. are wider in stark contrast with…