About
Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit has its origins in a typeface designed for the Murty Classical Library of India book series, so is especially suited to traditional literary publishing but also made with the needs of today’s multiple print and screen media in mind. The Tiro Devanagari design applies a contemporary approach to the traditional styling of 19th and 20th Century metal types exemplified in those of the renowned Nirnaya Sagar Press, and is characterised by broader proportions, more generous counters, and strong diagonal strokes and terminals. The Sanskrit font favours traditional forms of conjuncts. For the Open Font License release, Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit has been extended to support additional characters, including signs for Vedic texts, and features a new italic companion. Each font also includes a Latin subset including diacritics for transcription of Indian languages.
Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit was designed by John Hudson and Fiona Ross. The italic was adapted by Paul Hanslow.
To contribute, see github.com/TiroTypeworks/Indigo.
To learn more, read Modern Tiro Indic collection for classical South Asian texts.
Designers
4Tiro Typeworks is a small type foundry specialising in custom fonts for multilingual publishing and computing. Tiro’s clients include Adobe, Apple, Brill, Google, Harvard University Press, Microsoft, the STI Pub consortium, and other specialist publishers and scholarly organisations.
John Hudson is a Canadian type designer and font maker, and co-founder of Tiro Typeworks (1994).
Fiona Ross specializes in type design primarily for Arabic, South Asian, and Thai scripts. She works as a consultant, type designer, author, and Professor in Type Design (part-time) at the University of Reading (UK). Fiona has received the SoTA Typography Award (2014) and the Type Director’s Club Medal (2018).
Paul Hanslow is an Australian born typeface designer, currently working for Tiro Typeworks in Vancouver, Canada.
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