However, Maharjan’s typeface designs aren’t limited to Devanagari fonts only. Till now, Maharjan has designed more than 30 fonts, among which a few are available on the internet free for public use.
Maharjan, who has been working in the graphic designing industry for the past 17 years, is among the handful number of typeface designers who are actively working in designing fonts in Nepal. But the lack of Nepali font restrained me from doing it, due to which I developed my own so I had more fonts to incorporate in my design,” says Maharjan. And for Maharjan, who loved experimenting with different fonts, the lack of Nepali fonts was stumbling his creative process.Īnd like how necessity is the mother of invention, he combined his designing skills to create his first-ever Nepali font, called Ananda 1 HV, to have more fonts to work with. It was back in 2003, while designing reports, brochures, books, and various other publication materials for NGOs and INGOs, that the unavailability of Nepali fonts immensely bothered Ananda Maharjan.Īs someone who had to be handy in graphic designing, the need to work with Nepali fonts was a requirement of the job, as he had to also design the materials in the Nepali language.
