Jonny Pinhorn

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Jonny Pinhorn Type designer and India enthusiast. British designer who obtained an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on his typeface Venkat. He is working on Venkat Tamil. In 2012, he published the free sans serif typeface Karla at Google Web Fonts. In 2013, Pinhorn designed Saguna (Indian Type Foundry) for Gujarati. In 2014, Jonny Pinhorn and Manushi Parikh codesigned Teko (Google Fonts, Indian Type Foundry)). Teko is an Open Source typeface that currently supports the Devanagari and Latin scripts. This font family has been created for use in headlines and other display-sized text on screen. Five font styles make up the initial release. Codesigned with Jonny Pinhorn. With Lipi Raval, Jonny Pinhorn designed the Google Web Font Kalam (also via the Indian Type Foundry) in 2014. Kalam is a handwriting-style typeface supporting the Devanagari and Latin scripts. The fonts have each been optimised for text on screen. Each font contains 1,025 glyphs, which includes many unique Devanagari conjuncts. In 2015, Pinhorn designed the Peignotian typeface Quilon, the grotesk typeface family Caravel and the geometric-but-not-quite-monolinear Touche at Indian Type Foundry. With Lipi Raval, Jonny Pinhorn designed the Google Web Font Tillana in 2015: Tillana is a casula angular script typeface for Latin and Devanagari. Creator of the Latin part of the free Latin / Devanagari geometric sans typeface Poppins (2015, Google Fonts). The Devanagari is from Ninad Kale. The Indian Type Foundry first published Poppins in 2014. Google Plus link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Jonny Pinhorn [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Tamil fonts ⦿ Type design in the United Kingdom ⦿ Gujarati fonts ⦿ Indic language fonts ⦿