Aksharaya calligraphy manuals

Simon Cozens

In the "shut up and take my money" department, Aksharaya have prepared six calligraphy manuals for the upcoming Typoday 2016 conference in Bangalore - introductory manuals for Devanagari, Nastaliq Urdu, Gujarati, Gumurkhi, Odia and Kannada.



If you email info@aksharaya.org, they'll courier copies to you after the conference.

Jacques Le Bailly

Are they also available for people not visiting the conference ?

Dave Crossland

Yes, just email them. They are a non profit dedicated to raising awareness about Indic scripts, many of the people driving the org forwards are associated with the Ek Type foundry.

James Puckett

They are a non profit dedicated to raising awareness about Indic scripts…

In that case they should just post hi-res scans to flickr under a CC license.

Dave Crossland

James Puckett said:

They are a non profit dedicated to raising awareness about Indic scripts…

In that case they should just post hi-res scans to flickr under a CC license.

Of course I have already proposed this  

Simon Cozens

Mine just arrived. They were 1450 Rupees for the full set of six manuals - that's $21 US plus shipping. They're quite short (about 14 pages each) and fairly basic, but they're wonderful introductions to the technicalities of working with each of the scripts. I can see myself getting a lot of use out of them.

simoncharwey

Update: I followed up for copies of the 6 scripts (the six Aksharaya calligraphy manuals). Learned from Sarang Kulkarni (Askharaya Society) that they later designed 4 more scripts. Total 10 scripts manual set is designed for basic calligraphy practice in Indian scripts. Devanagari, Bangla, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Currently Bangla printed copy is out of print and will be getting the fresh copies in 4-6 weeks.

Simon Cozens

I love these and think they are great. However, when I mentioned this to Fiona she was somewhat withering. I forget why; it was a few years ago now.