User:Mohantysk

S. K. Mohanty has over 25 years of experience in leading development of Digital Font Design, Multilingual Technology products, Visual communication and Calligraphy. Having graduated in Applied Art from Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai, he did post graduation in Visual Communication (M. Des) from Industrial Design Center from IIT, Mumbai. Mr. Mohanty founded and headed the font design and script and glyph standardization activities at C-DAC, Pune for 10 years. During this time, he has authored the ISFOC and ISCLAP standards for the print and multilingual pager needs respectively.

Mr. Mohanty has carried out revolutionary developments of clear and legible font designs for the widest range of needs and platforms starting from the early 9 & 24 pin printers, low resolution monitors, pagers, laser printers to TV (NTSC, PAL and HD). Fonts developed by Mr. Mohanty are available through multilingual products from C-DAC and have gained popularity in various industries like print media, TV channels, official communications and outdoor hoardings in almost every part of the country.

Mr. Mohanty has authored many national and international publications and has also been recognized through many National and International awards like the FIE Foundation National Awards in India 1993, Ulka Advertising Research Fellowship in Art, Fellow at J. J. Institute of applied Art and design excellence award by EPSON, Japan. His Type design work covers a wide range of Indic (Devanagari, Gujariti, Punjabi, Assamese, Bengali, Oriya, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada & Malayalam) as well as some of the south Asian scripts ''(Tibetan, Bhutanese and Sinhalese).

References:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/h9mj5n65mj4ucxu8/

www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~tjun/data/gicas/koba.pdf