Ishan Khosla

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Ishan Khosla Principal of Ishan Khosla Design, New Delhi, who has an MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts, New York. At Typography Day 2012 he spoke on Typocraft: Creating an Indian Typographic Identity. Founder in 2012 of Typecraft Initiative (Type Design based on India's Rich Living Craft Tradition). The partners in that project are Andreu Balius and Sol Matas. Khosla's typefaces: Godna (2016). A typeface made from tribal tattoos. (Godna or tattoo is an ancient artform practiced by Gond tribe of Chattisgarh in Central India.) Andreu Balius helped with the development. Chittara (2012), an ornamental caps typeface. The Kannada word Chittara means creating an image or drawing. Historically, the artform has been practiced by women of the Deevaru community in the Sagar district of Karnataka, where these images were occasionally painted inside and outside houses. Barmer Katab (2020, Ishan Khosla and Andreu Balius). A textured all caps Latin font based on the ancient art of appliquá and patchwork from the Barmer desert region of Rajasthan, India.	EXTERNAL LINKS Ishan Khosla MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Indic language fonts ⦿ Type design in India ⦿ Type personalities ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Tattoo fonts ⦿ Ornamental caps typefaces ⦿ Textured typefaces ⦿