METAFONT in 2023: "Nupuram" (Malayalam) typeface by Santhosh Thottingal

Dave Crossland · October 2023

https://typoday.in/spk_papers/Santhosh_Thottingal_Typoday2023.pdf

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Very cool stuff!!

Linus Romer · October 2023

Interesting! I wonder if this project is related to the Malayalam font project by C. V. Radhakrishnan, K. V. Rajeesh and K. H. Hussain (see https://youtu.be/LR4HhkhfNeg?feature=shared) ?

Santhosh Thottingal · November 2023

@Linus Romer , It is not related. That project is work in progress from what I understand. There is no font released. It uses fontforge to import outlines from an SVG generated from metapost.

My approach does not use fontforge. Metapost itself creates interpolatable glyphs having outlines with clean nodes.

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Dave Crossland · November 2023

This is an excellent point and a big advance in the metafont workflow!!

METAFONT in 2023: "Nupuram" (Malayalam) typeface by Santhosh Thottingal

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