Display families with extensive character sets are rare for any script. With Indian typefaces, large character sets are often even less common. The Indian Type Foundry’s font families have been an exception, however. Sarpanch continues this trend. Sarpanch is an Open Source typeface supporting the Devanagari and Latin scripts. It was designed for use in large point sizes and pixel sizes. Sarpanch’s letterforms are made up of strokes with a high contrast. They are also drawn with wide proportions, based on a squared construction principle.

Six fonts make up the Sarpanch family, ranging in weight from Regular to Black. As weight increases along the family’s axis, vertical strokes become thicker, but the typeface’s horizontals retain the same thickness across each weight. While the rather wide Regular weight of the family is almost monolinear, the Black weight appears to have a very high degree of contrast.

The Regular, Medium and Semibold fonts are recommended for use in short headlines, while Bold, Heavy and Black are intended primarily for setting single words or pairs. At display sizes, Sarpanch works equally well on screen or in print. Each font contains 1035 glyphs and offers full support for the conjuncts and ligatures required by languages written in the Devanagari script.

The Medium–Black weights of the Sarpanch family were design by Manushi Parikh at ITF in 2014. Jyotish Sonowal designed the Regular weight. Sarpanch is an excellent choice for use in advertising or for news tickers on television screens (breaking news, etc.) In Hindi, the word Sarpanch means ‘the head of a village’.

Sarpanch font contains 429 defined characters and 327 unique glyphs.

The font contains characters from the following unicode character ranges: Basic Latin (93), Latin-1 Supplement (92), Latin Extended-A (85), Latin Extended-B (5), Spacing Modifier Letters (9), Greek and Coptic (1), Devanagari (104), General Punctuation (19), Currency Symbols (1), Letterlike Symbols (2), Mathematical Operators (10), Geometric Shapes (2), Private Use Area (1), Alphabetic Presentation Forms (2).

• Font Name:Sarpanch
• Subfamily:Regular
• Version:Version 2.003;PS 1.0;hotconv 1.0.78;makeotf.lib2.5.61930; ttfautohint (v1.1) -l 8 -r 50 -G 200 -x 14 -D latn -f deva -w gGD -W -c
• Trademark:Sarpanch is a trademark of Indian Type Foundry.
• Manufacturer:Indian Type Foundry
• Designer:Manushi Parikh (Devanagari and Latin), Jyotish Sonowal (Devanagari)
• Vendor URL:http://www.indiantypefoundry.com
• Designer URL:http://www.indiantypefoundry.com
• License:This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
• License URL:http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

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