Ananya Mohan

Ananya Mohan is a Hong Kong and London-based designer with a passion for identity systems and editorial design. She recently designed a custom Hindi Devanagari typeface called Samanuroop as a response to rising extremism and the world’s current political climate. Powerful. (discovered here)

Ardena Typeface

German graphic designer Julien Fincker has recently released a new typeface called Ardena which features “low-contrast” letterforms as compared to one of his other typefaces, Spitzkant (winner of my personally issued, “Most Interesting Typeface Name” award). (discovered here)

Fonts for Everyone

I came across this fascinating article on the dearth of Nepalese typefaces. With over 55,000 Latin/Roman typefaces in existence, Nepali fonts number only in the hundreds (despite being developed in India over 2,000 years ago). Young designers such as Ashlesha Maharjan (above) are increasing the number of Devanagari fonts through graphic design schools based in Nepal. (discovered here)