The creation of Bengali typeface
Panchanan Karmakar (Mallick) holds the acclaim of creating the first Bangla typeface for the presses, while assisting English typographer Charles Wilkins. https://zeenews.india.com/bengali/state/serampore-press-town Type-casting is a technique of casting individual letters in hot metal typesetting. The need for the Bengali typeface arose during the printing of A Grammar of the Bengal Language by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed. The mission was undertaken to teach organised Bengali grammar to the common masses. Halhed took the initiative of making the Bengali typeface in England, however this proved to be a failed and expensive effort. This was because Bengali have a combination of alphabets that can run into thousands and have more intricacies compared to the English alphabets. Nathaniel Halhed and Charles Wilkins It is believed that Karmakar completed 700 punches for Devanagari letters. Karmakar’s Bangla alphabet and typeface were in use and later replaced by a simpl...