Malayalam Art Font

A new font has been designed that mimics the forms of the Malayalam script - a cool “fine art font project” in my opinion, and good to know about (Thanks to Gustavo F for the link) although I’ve heard plenty of criticism of it by text type designers.

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The Malayalam Art Font by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
April 15, 2008 |

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4 Responses to “Malayalam Art Font”

  1. Dan Reynolds on April 15th, 2008 10:52

    David, sadly this project is not a Malayalam font, but rather a Latin typeface whose forms are similar to/inspired by Malayalam. You type i the letters, then tuirn the text on its side to read it. It is a display face.

    So, you can’t get real Malayalam text with it. Mayybe with a lot of patience, you could write out some Malayalam words with it, but not the language.

    If you run the German text of the interview through an online translator, you should be able to get the gyst of the project.

  2. David Crossland on May 17th, 2008 13:30

    Ah yes, I took a look for about 5 seconds and made the post.

    Its a fine art project, really, and I’m okay with that; I’ll change the article text.

  3. Hashim P M on October 25th, 2008 04:58

    This is just not Malayalam by any stretch of imagination. Is the designer taking someone for a ride or playing a joke?

  4. David Crossland on October 29th, 2008 12:03

    If you would like me to change the text of this blog post, I welcome your suggestions :-)

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