Padyakke is a wide, airy, and friendly font for the Kannada writing system. Its gracefully balanced thin strokes rise up over sumptuously swollen bottoms. Padyakke was designed to pair with Aoife Mooney’s latin typeface BioRhyme; thus BioRhyme’s idosyncratic bowls, not-quite-perpendicular stroke terminals, and teardrop terminals are also in Padyakke.
Padyakke’s Kannada glyphs were designed by James Puckett. Padyakke’s Latin glyphs were designed by Aoife Mooney.
Official source files and compiled fonts are released at: https://github.com/DunwichType/Padyakke_Libre
Source files for Kannada PDF proofs are in the Dunwich Type proofs repository: https://github.com/DunwichType/DTF_Proofs
** Use Glyphs 2.3b! **
As of version 1.401 Padyakke is built with Glyphs 2.3. Padyakke is not compatible with older versions of Glyphs. If you open the file in older versions of Glyphs many component positions and sidebearings will break.
Padyakke 1.401 fonts were compiled with Glyphs 2.3b (885). Attempting to compile with some earlier versions of 2.3b will result in broken fonts.
Padyakke contains manual hinting data but it is not used in compiled fonts due to bugs in Glyphs. The provided TTF font is not hinted. It was configured as per Dave Crossland’s instructions at: https://github.com/googlefonts/gf-docs/blob/master/HowToGenerateWebNativeFontsWithFontForge.md
Dunwich Type Founders cares what you think! Please file issues on the Github project issue tracker, at https://github.com/DunwichType/Padyakke_Libre/issues or contact me privately at padyakkefonts@gmail.com.
Padyakke was developed with Glyphs 2, MetricsMachine, DTL OTMaster, and FontForge. Web testing was conducted with Pablo Impallari’s testing page.
Padyakke contains data from BioRhyme by Aoife Mooney. BioRhyme can be found at: https://github.com/aoifemooney/makingbiorhyme
Padyakke contains data from Hind Mysuru by Indian Type Foundry. Hind Mysuru can be found at: https://github.com/itfoundry/hind-mysuru
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