Kannada - Font Kama Kathegalu

Her love was not for a man but for the modi (style) of each character. In the dusty printing presses of Mysore, she would arrange tiny lead blocks of Kannada vowels and consonants, kissing each into position. Printers called her Akshara Prema (Letter Love). She famously said: "Every ಎ has a curve like a lover’s embrace. You must feel it, not just see it."

are not over. They are being written right now—by you, with every keystroke. Kannada Font Kama Kathegalu

Then came (Kannada for “to type”)—a software developed by Ganapathy and his team at Kannada University, Hampi. Nudi was the matchmaker. It gave Kannada a standard keyboard layout. But the real love story was between Dr. U. B. Pavanaja (the typography pioneer) and the Unicode Consortium. Her love was not for a man but