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Fontwala, A Solo Play About Language, Technology and South Asian Identity
January 31 @ 7:30 PM PST
In 1990s India, Fontwala is an aspiring typographer and font designer of Indian languages who designs the Anglo Nagari Keyboard, one of the first software that allows typing of Indian scripts on the Latin-based keyboard. In the present time, Shilpi, Fontwala’s niece, has returned to India after spending two decades as an immigrant in the US to write the story of her uncle, Fontwala. Shilpi discovers what it means for a “complex” script to survive in a digital world and for a person with complex history to try and tell one story. Inspired by the story of typographer and font designer of Indian scripts, Rajeev Prakash.
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