Vinay Saynekar is a type designer, calligrapher and a design educator. He completed his graduation from

Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art is an Indian applied art institution based in Mumbai. It is a state government college that was started through its sister school, the Sir J. J. School of Art. The "Sir J. J." in the name stands for Sir Jamse ...

, Mumbai University and joined a paper company, Chimanlal’s Pvt Ltd, as Chief Design Consultant in 1981. He worked for some time and then returned to his college to teach and has been a teacher of

typography Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing ( leading), and ...

and

calligraphy Calligraphy (from el, link=y, καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument. Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as "t ...

in JJ since 1984. He has taken several lectures in various Art and Design Colleges, on typefaces and their design. He also visited West Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain for the same purpose in 1988. Saynekar has been honoured as the Communication Arts Guild "Guru of the Year" for three consecutive years in 2007–2008, 2008–2009 and 2009–2010. He participated in a group show called ‘3 Calligraphers’. He is a member of Aksharaya – an organisation for the 'Letter Conscious' People. He wrote a book for calligraphy enthusiasts – ''Aksharsaundarya: Nirmiti ani Itihas'' (Beautifying Letters: Creation and History). He has organized workshops for children to introduce them to the world of calligraphy.

Designed fonts

In his association with the typographer Prof

R K Joshi Professor R K Joshi (1936, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India – 5 February 2008, in San Francisco, USA) was an academic type designer and calligrapher. He designed the core Indian fonts used in Microsoft Windows. Early life Joshi was born into ...

, he designed fonts for Microsoft Corporation including Tunga for

Kannada script The Kannada script (IAST: ''Kannaḍa lipi''; obsolete: Kanarese or Canarese script in English) is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used to write Kannada, one of the Dravidian languages of South India especially in the state of Karnataka. Ka ...

and Vrinda for

Bengali script Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

. He was a member of the Font Design Team in the

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(CDAC) for almost 15 years from 1992–2007. He has been a part of font designs in

Devanagari Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental syste ...

Assamese Assamese may refer to: * Assamese people, a socio-ethnolinguistic identity of north-eastern India * People of Assam, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious people of Assam * Assamese language, one of the easternmost Indo-Aryan language ...

, Bengali, and Kannada. The fonts made for

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are Jan Marathi, Jan Bengali and Jan Kannada. His recent works include typefaces designed in Bengali and Kannada Script for

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and Virgin Mobile ads in Indian regions.

References

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