A single-weight experimental Devanagari display typeface that balances geometric abstraction with legibility, rooted in a commission for an Indian modern art publication.
About
Developed from lettering created for Drukchintan, a book of essays on modern Indian and international artists, Vilom pushes Devanagari script into modernist territory. Solid rectangles and circles dominate the dandas and bindus whilst thin strokes define the remaining character shapes, creating a deliberate tension between abstraction and readability. Available in one weight and one style, it is built for display contexts where formal experimentation is the point.
Classification
Vilom is a display typeface that uses geometric abstraction — solid rectangles, circles and thin lines — to render Devanagari script, departing from traditional letterform conventions in favour of a modernist visual language.