Script watch

Doing some quick focus at exotic scripts around, we stumbled upon this one from 8th century CE India. The pallava script derived from the Proto Brahmi script seems to have a later influence on the orthographic evolution of South East asian scripts including Khmer and writing systems including Sinhala have its influence. Apparently used as the prevalent script to write Sanskrit prior to the taking over of Nagari/Devanagari scripts post 10th century CE.


Pallava Script

Image: Hand crafted image in Pallava script by Ms. Jayalakshmi P Iyangar with the text jayaM vedasya sArathiM.

PS: Albeit a later developed script, Khmer does show a good degree of similarity with Pallava script. You could check out Google’s Swannaphum Webfont or Freehand as good free flowing unicode compliant type faces for Khmer.

Fontli Focus

The second but never secondary channel that drives the development of wonderful products is the focus on interactions with users, be it product experience or finding more use cases for it based on activity. Keeping this in mind, Fontli decided to focus on certain aspects of the product including but not limited to content generated by users at regular intervals to keep users updated on the Typographic beauties brewing in the environment. As a starter, we would like to present you some recent content shared by our beloved user Mr. Daniel Rico. Active on Fontli with the user handle of Chocopunk, he is a web designer and front end developer since about 2005. An avid lover of Typefaces, Daniel says he picked up his inclination to exotic type faces in his teens thanks to Metal bands’ logos featuring the same.

From the historical French town of Strasbourg, an ideal location for vintage type lovers and photowalk enthusiasts alike, Daniel loves to pick up a good lot of typeface usages all around the city. The types in the most unusual of places be it coffee packaging or bakery boards he feels throw a wonderful window into unique designs and says Fontli is a good window to showcase such less discovered beauties to the Typoholic ecosystem.