Another issue I bring up is painted letterforms parroting shapes brought on by the constraints of moveable type, even when those restrictions don’t apply to them. The example I share is of horizontal conjuncts in Devanagari made using discrete half and full forms, with a visible gap.
If this section of the essay is at all understandable to you, it is thanks to Sam Sam at BLAG (npub1fpx…k29l) who helped me make the text intelligible for non Devanagari type designers and users.
Pooja Saxena
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