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EK Type [Sarang Kulkarni]

Type design collective in Mumbai, India, est. 2013, managed by Mumbai-based Sarang Kulkarni (b. 1980). Sarang studied at the Sir J J Institute of Applied Art in Mumbai, class of 2002. He worked with R.K. Joshi at the National Centre for Software Technology and Design Temple in 2002. In that same year, he assisted R.K. Joshi with the design of the Jana Gurmukhi typeface. In 2008 and 2009, he created 11 Indic typefaces for Vodafone India. In 2009-2010, he created an additional eight typefaces for Virgin Mobile India. Kulkarni also runs White Crow Designs.

Typefaces at Ek Type from 2011 by Hanif Kureshi include Painter Umesh, Painter Kafeel, and Painter Suhail.

In 2013, Girish Dalvi and Yashodeep Gholap co-designed Ek Devanagari at Ek Type for Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Konkani and Nepali. It is a contemporary, humanist, monolinear typeface available in seven weights. Its companion, also designed by them, is the humanist sans typeface family Ek Latin (2013).

Designer of Modak (2013, Ek Type), a Latin / Devanagari bubblegum typeface that was published in the Google Web Font collection in 2015. Modak Devanagari was designed by Sarang Kulkarni and Maithili Shingre and Modak Latin by Noopur Datye with support from Girish Dalvi and Pradnya Naik. Github link. Another Github link for Modak.

In 2012, he designed Star Jalsha, a Bengali television screen font for Star India Pvt Ltd.

In 2016, Ek Type designed the free Latin / Devanagari / Gujarati font Mukta Vaani. More precisely, it was designed by Noopur Datye and Pallavi Karambelkar with support from Sarang Kulkarni and Maithili Shingre. Google Fonts link. Github link.

In 2017, EK Type released Jaini and Jaini Purva designed by Girish Dalvi and Maithili Shingre: Jaini is a devaagari typeface based on the calligraphic style of the Jain Kalpasutra manuscripts. The design of this font is based on the 1503 Kalpasutra manuscript.

In 2020, EK Type published the devanagari typeface Gotu at Google Fonts. Niranjan collected these EK fonts:

  • Mukta (Girish Dalvi, Yashodeep Gholap)
  • Baloo (Sarang Kulkarni)
  • Modak (Sarang Kulkarni, Maithili Shingre)
  • Jaini (Girish Dalvi, Maithili Shingre)

In 2022, Ek Type released a multi-script (variable) Indic typeface family that includes Anek Telugu, Anek Malayalam, Anek Latin, Anek Kannada, Anek Gurmukhi, Anek Tamil, Anek Odia, Anek Gujarati, Anek Devanagari, and Anek Bangla. Contributors of this project are: Maithili Shingre (Anek Malayalam, Anek Kannada), Yesha Goshar (Anek Latin, Anek Odia), Kailash Malviya (Anek Devanagari), Aadarsh Rajan (Anek Tamil), Sulekha Rajkumar (Anek Bangla), Vaishnavi Murthy (Anek Kannada), Omkar Bhoir (Anek Telugu), Mrunmayee Ghaisas (Anek Gujarati), Mahesh Sahu (Anek Odia), and Sarang Kulkarni (Anek Gurmukhi). Project management and design assistance by Noopur Datye, and Font engineering and design assistance by Girish Dalvi. Ek Type won an award at 25 TDC in 2022 for Anek. The designers mentioned in the TDC press release are Girish Dalvi, Noopur Datye, Sarang Kulkarni, Aadarsh Rajan, Kailash Malviya, Mahesh Sahu, Maithili Shingre, Mrunmayee Ghaisas, Omkar Bhoir, Sulekha Rajkumar, Vaishanvi Murthy, and Yesha Goshar. Github link for Anek.

Behance link. White Crow Designs link [White Crow was established in 2005 in Mumbai by Sarang Kulkarni]. Typophile link. Behance link. White Crow Designs. Fontsquirrel link. Github link. Fontsquirrel link.

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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html