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Typography Day 2012

Typography Day was organized for the fifth time in 2012 (1st-3rd March) at the Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) with support from India Design Association (InDeAs) and Aksharaya. The event will include an international conference which will be devoted to addressing issues faced by type designers, type users and type educators. The theme for this year's event is Typography in Publication Design. The speakers whose talks touch upon type design include

• Evripides Zantides: The use of eye-tracker technology to evaluate typefaces, Greek fonts and publication design for screen
• Mahmood MazaheriTari: Abilities Of Persian Typefaces&Persian Calligraphy In Stencil Type Design
• Mariko Takagi: Typographic Culture of Hong Kong
• Sophia Oduol: Innovative applications of Typography - Ancient African Typographic Symbols in Contemporary Publication Design
• Veronika Burian: Typographic matchmaking
• Ishan Khosla: Typecraft: Creating an Indian Typographic Identity
• Yashodeep Gholap: Designing a Devanagari text font for newspaper use
• Chitchai Kuandachakupt: Ariyaka, the early typeface leads modern industrialization of letterpress printing in Thailand
• Samradhi Katare: All That I Have Learned About Devanagari----Evolution of the Devanagari script and development of letter-form design based on Vox-ATypI classification of type

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INTERNAL LINKS
Past conferences on type design ⦿ Indic language fonts ⦿ Type design in India ⦿ Letterpress ⦿