IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

DIGITALISATION OF INDIAN TYPEFACES IN THE PHASE OF DIGITAL INDIA

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Sangita S. Patil

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This research paper explores the bird’s eye view of the Digitalisation of Indian Typefaces in the era of Digital India campaign, which was officially launched in 2015 Initiated by Government of India. While examining possible solutions, the researcher describes the view point of the common man while using the Indian typefaces in daily routine. The paper will review historical development of mechanizing Indian scripts and the computer processing of Indian languages. The focus is on the Devanagari script and Hindi language, and on the technological solutions for processing them. The 1990s was a historic decade in India, the rise of the internet ushered in a radical new era of communication, business and entertainment. The 1990s saw advances in technology, with the World Wide Web, the evolution of the Pentium microprocessor. This era has introduced the India to the modern computer systems. It was the era of big companies using computers instead of manpower for their day‐ to‐day work. The Indian scholarly articles and books were digitally published in Indic scripts over the internet for open public access. Fonts/Types were the key element for digital publishing. In the early days, no one gave its attention towards the standard format of these Indian language fonts. This paper helps in understanding the cause of this information loss during Indic font substitution with reason stating the backend problem of these legacy Indic fonts in digital documents. India is a land of diverse cultures and traditions. It is highly multilingual with 22 constitutionally recognized languages. Besides these, hundreds of other languages are used in India, each one with a number of dialects. The officially recognized languages are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili and Dogri.. As a result, it has many languages that people use to communicate across various geographies of the nation. However, it is said that Indian languages didn’t get attention in the world of fonts until the past few years, is not the case anymore. With the need to personalize experiences for users, it became quite important for designers and creators to actually dig into Indian languages to improve the user experience of any product.

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