A perfect blend of pointy paws inside a coat of fur, Baloo is definitely an affable show typeface by Ek Sort. Accessible in nine Indian scripts together with a Latin counterpart, the family members is Unicode compliant and libre licensed.
Baloo is often a distinctive heavy spurless style using a subtle tinge of playfulness and all of the bare necessities of variety. Snuggling a number of scripts beneath a single weight, the typeface focuses on giving equal justice to each and every act of this gentle jungle affair to secure single and multi-script use. Carefree yet confident, warm however entertaining, sprightly yet intelligible, Baloo infuses life everywhere it goes.
The Baloo project develops nine separate fonts with unique nearby names for each on the nine Indic Scripts. Every single font supports one particular Indic subset plus Latin, Latin Extended, and Vietnamese.
Baloo for Devanagari
Baloo Bhai for Gujarati
Baloo Bhaijaan for Urdu (Nasta?liq Arabic)
Baloo Bhaina for Oriya
Baloo Chettan for Malayalam
Baloo Da for Bengali
Baloo Paaji for Gurumukhi
Baloo Tamma for Kannada
Baloo Tammudu for Telugu
Baloo Thambi for Tamil
Effectively fed and completely nourished across every script, it took a group of committed kind designers to rear Baloo and raise it to become the typeface we appreciate. Baloo Devanagari is made by Sarang Kulkarni, Gurmukhi by Shuchita Grover, Bangla by Noopur Datye, Oriya by Manish Minz and Shuchita Grover, Gujarati by Supriya Tembe and Noopur Datye, Kannada by Divya Kowshik, Telugu by Omkar Shende, Malayalam by Maithili Shingre, Urdu by Devika Bhansali and Tamil by Aadarsh Rajan. Baloo Latin is collaboratively designed by Ek Form. Variety design help and font engineering by Girish Dalvi.
Baloo is grateful to Sulekha Rajkumar, Vaishnavi Murthy, Gangadharan Menon, Vinay Saynekar, Dave Crossland and other folks for their involvement, ideas and feedback.
