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Adobe Devanagari
A typeface by Robert Slimbach, Tim Holloway and Fiona Ross hat was published by Adobe. There was a discussion on Typophile n 2012 regarding the defects of Adobe Devanagari. In defense, John Hudson wrote: The first thing that should be noted is that Adobe Devanagari was designed specifically for modern Hindi use, and not for Sanskrit; it may be of limited use even for other modern languages such as Marathi and Nepali. The design brief was specifically to target use of Hindi in a modern business environment (the font was originally made to bundle with Acrobat), and not scholarly use. Uli Stiehl rues about the missed opportunity: adding only a few additional ligatures could make the font also suitable for Marathi and Sanskrit. For example, for Classical Sanskrit, only 11 additional ligatures would be required to make the Adobe Devanagari font suitable for Classical Sanskrit (as opposed to Vedic Sanskrit). |
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