Modak
Latin + Devanagari 1 Weight / 1 style

Free

Weight and Styles

Modak Latin
मोदक देवनागरी
210px
1.4

Blabber

48px
1.4

Zaphod invented the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. He was voted Worst Dressed Sentient Being in the Known Universe seven consecutive times. He's been described as the best Bang since the Big One by Eccentrica Gallumbits, and as one hoopy frood by others. In the seventh episode of the original radio series, the narrator describes Beeblebrox as being the owner of the hippest place in the universe (his own left cranium), as voted on in a poll of the readers of the fictional magazine Playbeing.

Modak Design Information
Year: 2015
Publisher: Ek Type
Designer: Sarang Kulkarni
  Maithili Shingre

Modak is a Devanagari+Latin display typeface with portly curves and thin counters.

It started off as a hand-sketched lettering experiment to test the unexplored possibilities of very heavy, yet legible letterforms in Devanagari. What emerged were plump characters whose curves merge into each other, forming distinct counter shapes.

As we translated the sketches into a functional font, characters were fine-tuned and multiple vowel signs were designed to match precisely with every character. These overlapping vowel signs are a feature unique to Modak. As opposed to a mere composite of two separate glyphs, each conjunct was drawn as a single entity. The challenge was to maintain legibility and consistency across all characters, irrespective of the structural complexity of the script. The resulting typeface is one of its kind and most likely the chubbiest Devanagari typeface to be designed so far.

The font is libre licensed. The source files can be downloaded from github.com/EkType/Modak

Year: 2015
Publisher: Ek Type
Designer: Sarang Kulkarni
  Maithili Shingre
Features

Format: TTF

License: Open Source

Weight: 1

Styles: 1

Suggested Usage: Books, Magazines, Multi Purpose, Multi Script, Multi Lingual Branding, Publication, Identity, Display Type

Font Usage : Books, Magazines, Multi purpose, Multi script, Multilingual Branding, Publication, Display Type

Specimen Images
Modak in Use
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Modak Latin
Le Chicken Branding
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Modak Devanagari
Lalbaugcha Raja
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Modak Latin
Université Bordeaux Montaigne - Conference 2018

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