I started developing Yuvasarani for a student organization which I'm part of- as part of my personal project to brand its upcoming conference in December 2010. I started re-sketching on a scribbling i found on my old sketchbook and started with 'Sa' followed by 'Na' and 'Ra', and few others later. So far I have only finished 60 glyphs and I would need some 'big' inspiration to complete the rest.
I have had my initial font glyphs sent to few typographers, whose encouragement\feedback's were quite an inspiration.
God help me complete this!

To keep my self busy, I have been doing an experimental Handwritten type in Malayalam, I would be releasing it soon.Watch out.

The very idea of creating fonts happened to me when I found the lack of commercial typefaces in Malayalam, and rather very few choice I had with the ISM package. I have been trying to create a Malayalam type face, but after few initial sketching I loose focus.Read more