An ideal blend of pointy paws in a coat of fur, Baloo is an affable display typeface by Ek Sort. Available in nine Indian scripts as well as a Latin counterpart, the family members is Unicode compliant and libre licensed.
Baloo is usually a distinctive heavy spurless style using a subtle tinge of playfulness and each of the bare necessities of kind. Snuggling a number of scripts beneath a single weight, the typeface focuses on providing equal justice to just about every act of this gentle jungle affair to secure single and multi-script use. Carefree yet confident, warm but entertaining, sprightly however intelligible, Baloo infuses life everywhere it goes.
The Baloo project develops nine separate fonts with exclusive neighborhood names for every with the nine Indic Scripts. Every single font supports 1 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
Properly fed and thoroughly nourished across just about every script, it took a team of committed kind designers to rear Baloo and raise it to become the typeface we like. Baloo Devanagari is created 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 created by Ek Type. Form design help and font engineering by Girish Dalvi.
Baloo is grateful to Sulekha Rajkumar, Vaishnavi Murthy, Gangadharan Menon, Vinay Saynekar, Dave Crossland and others for their involvement, recommendations and feedback.
