The ida fonts

ida is a commercial-grade, open source font for the Indus Script. It uses a design I call “Gol Gol Mota Mota” which means “Round Round Fat Fat” in Bengali. It hopes to make the script accessible and fun. It shapes Indus iconography with a larger weight so as to be better legible on digital devices. 4,000 years before Gutenberg invented movable type, the Indus artisans employed sophisticated techniques to create clean and elegant typefaces that are comparable to our modern fonts. The ida font attempts to be faithful to the Indus aesthetic. The ida font is a proportional space font supporting a full range of typography including more than a 100 pairwise kerned characters and complete Indus character support. The ida font supports BiDi in the Indus Script by coming in two flavors – Right-To-Left which is called ida-Regular and a separate font called ida-Left-To-Right which contains mirror forms of the characters. It also comes in a Monospace font to support consoles and other legacy applications.