
1Yellow Pencil
Co-Founder & TypeDesigner
Type Design & Lettering Jury 2026

1Yellow Pencil

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Ek Type
Noopur Datye is a type designer and calligrapher from Mumbai, India. She is one of the co-founders of Ek Type, a collaborative, multi-script type foundry that has designed typefaces in seventeen of the many writing systems used in India. Her work includes custom Bengali and Devanagari typefaces for television channels Star Jalsa and LifeOk, open source typefaces Mukta Vaani (Gujarati), Mukta Mahee (Gurmukhi), Baloo (Gujarati, Bangla), Noto (Dogra, Gunjala Gondi and Masaram Gondi), the Anek Mukti-script Family, Honk, and Nithya Ranjana. Her work has won several awards including the Yellow Pencil at D&AD, Best of Show at TDC, CA’s Awards of Excellence and Black Elephants at Kyoorius Design Awards. Noopur has presented her work in several international conferences and has conducted workshops on calligraphy and letterform design at design schools and conferences in India.
Ek Type
Noopur Datye is a type designer and calligrapher from Mumbai, India. She is one of the co-founders of Ek Type, a collaborative, multi-script type foundry that has designed typefaces in seventeen of the many writing systems used in India. Her work includes custom Bengali and Devanagari typefaces for television channels Star Jalsa and LifeOk, open source typefaces Mukta Vaani (Gujarati), Mukta Mahee (Gurmukhi), Baloo (Gujarati, Bangla), Noto (Dogra, Gunjala Gondi and Masaram Gondi), the Anek Mukti-script Family, Honk, and Nithya Ranjana. Her work has won several awards including the Yellow Pencil at D&AD, Best of Show at TDC, CA’s Awards of Excellence and Black Elephants at Kyoorius Design Awards. Noopur has presented her work in several international conferences and has conducted workshops on calligraphy and letterform design at design schools and conferences in India.
Website
www.ektype.in