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Noopur Datye
Type Designer / Co-founder
Type Design & Lettering Jury 2023 — President
Profile
Company
Ek Type
About
Noopur Datye is a type designer and calligrapher from Mumbai, India. A graduate of Sir J J Institute of Applied Art, she is one of the co-founders of Ek Type, a collaborative type foundry that has designed typefaces in sixteen of the many scripts used in India. She mostly works with Devanagari and Bengali scripts. 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) and the Anek Mukti-script Family. Her work has won several awards including Graphite and Wooden pencils at D&AD, the Black Elephant at Kyoorius Design Awards and has been featured in 365 typo and in Typografica’s favourite typefaces of 2015 and 2016. Noopur is an active member of Aksharaya and regularly conducts workshops on calligraphy and letterform design at design schools and conferences in India.
Countries
Company
Ek Type
About
Noopur Datye is a type designer and calligrapher from Mumbai, India. A graduate of Sir J J Institute of Applied Art, she is one of the co-founders of Ek Type, a collaborative type foundry that has designed typefaces in sixteen of the many scripts used in India. She mostly works with Devanagari and Bengali scripts. 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) and the Anek Mukti-script Family. Her work has won several awards including Graphite and Wooden pencils at D&AD, the Black Elephant at Kyoorius Design Awards and has been featured in 365 typo and in Typografica’s favourite typefaces of 2015 and 2016. Noopur is an active member of Aksharaya and regularly conducts workshops on calligraphy and letterform design at design schools and conferences in India.
Countries
D&AD achievements
- Statistics
- 1 D&AD Award
- Participation
- Type Design & Lettering Jury 2023 — President
- Typography Jury 2021
- Statistics
- 1 D&AD Award
- Participation
- Type Design & Lettering Jury 2023 — President
- Typography Jury 2021
Website
www.ektype.in