Padyakke Expanded One - Google Fonts

About

Padyakke is a wide, airy, and friendly font for the Kannada writing system. Its gracefully balanced thin strokes rise up over sumptuously swollen bottoms. Padyakke was designed to pair with Aoife Mooney’s latin typeface BioRhyme Expanded; thus BioRhyme’s idosyncratic bowls, not-quite-perpendicular stroke terminals, and teardrop terminals are also in Padyakke.

Padyakke’s Kannada glyphs were designed by James Puckett. Padyakke’s Latin glyphs were designed by Aoife Mooney.

To contribute, see github.com/DunwichType/Padyakke_Libre

Designer

James Puckett

James studied graphic design at the Corcoran College of Art where he graduated with honors. He designed the Armitage, Ironstrike, and Lorimer type families, and has worked on custom type designs for clients including Mucca, Mutt Industries, and Google. In 2009, he started Dunwich Type Founders.

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