Kufinagari Typography
Language is
1. The method of human commination, either spoken or written, consisting of the use if words in structure and conventional way.
2. The system of communication used by a particular community or country.
3. The manner or style of a piece of writing or speech.
For an example, A hieroglyph was a characters of the ancient Egyptian writing system.
Logographic scripts that are pictographic in form in a way reminiscent of ancient Egyptian are also sometimes called "hieroglyphs".
then the script is evolved with tools, media and time to the various forms of script and languages.
Language is a major part of structuralism and it is amalgamation of cultures.
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In India one of the most spoken language is Hindustani Language ( language of India) which is mostly made up of Urdu and Hindi
and Urdu and Hindi made up of
Hindustani is the most spoken language of the India which is amalgamation of Urdu, Hindi and other regional languages;
known in its literary forms as Hindi–Urdu (Devanagari: हिन्दी-उर्दू, Urdu: ہندی-اردو) and historically as
Hindui, Hindavi, Zaban-e Hind, Zaban-e Hindustan , Hindustan ki boli (translation 'Language of India'), Rekhta, Hindi.
Its regional dialects became known as Zaban-e Dakhani in southern India, Zaban-e Gujari (transl. 'Language of Gujars') in Gujarat, and as Zaban-e Dehlavi or Urdu around Delhi.
It is an Indo-Aryan language, deriving its base primarily from the Western Hindi dialect of Delhi, also known as Khariboli. Hindustani is a pluricentric language, with two standardised registers, Modern Standard Hindi (if script is written in Devanagari) and Modern Standard Urdu (if script is written in Arabic)
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Image credit - India in pixels
Recreation of the Square Kufic
The only inscription in Square Kufic script in the kingdom of Golconda can be found in the Qutub shahi heritage necropolis in Hyderabad. Surah Ikhlas, a Quranic chapter can be found engraved on the sarcophagus of Prince Muhammad Amin, who is buried in the same plinth as that of is father, Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah.
Kufic script is geometric and could be confused with mazes, and of late a QR code. This inscription is the symbol of Golconda's cosmopolitan outreach during the medieval times as a rare calligraphic script from Persia appeared on the tomb of a prince.
Recreation of the script
It read as
Actual Photo of the script from Golkonda
Square Kufic known as banna'i ( "masonry" script), is a bare Arabic writing form that developed in the 12th century. The calligrapher Mamoun Sakkal described its development as an "exceptional step towards simplification in Kufic styles that evolved towards more complexity in the preceding centuries. Square Kufic was originally created in architecture with bricks and tiles functioning as pixels.
As the digital media is made up of Pixel, this script will be appropriate and more readable on the screen for the Indian languages.
As Urdu script is evolved from Arabic script but it has new letters and characters.
Design of Urdu kufic script Extracted from Arabic :
Amalgamating Kufic and Devanagari script for its simplicity.
Samples and Explorations :
Devanagri Alphabates
Gamification of ISHQ
Amalgamation of Urdu and Hindi (ZINDAGI - Life)
Language as Maze.
Language as Space.
Language as QR code.
