Presents

Have you ever felt your eyes glaze over as you appreciated the subtle textures of Sanskrit writing? The unified line which connects all the letters, and the slashes and swirls which dance around this constant backbeat? Well I have. So I decided to create a typeface to capture the flavor of Sanskrit, but with English letters.

Some of the more challenging details had to do with the apparent use of diacritical marks in Sanskrit, which I have attempted to match for frequency by attaching them to certain letters which occur in English with approximately the same frequency. I have also added flourishes to mark the ends of phrases and sentences, and the beginnings of new words, through design details and extended punctuation characters. You'll get the idea once you read a sentence or two in Raj.

This font looks great in 10- or 12-point, filling a page in such a way that it appears completely foreign to American eyes unless a reader takes that extra moment to notice that the letters are actually English. I have also used Raj lettering as a design element in larger sizes, to add an exotic touch to otherwise dry documents.

This font was designed on Macintosh using Apple's TrueType technology, and is being distributed in Macintosh and Windows formats. If you would like to use Raj in your electronic or printed publications and correspondence, just send me some of your favorite Indian recipes as a shareware licensing fee, and you may consider yourself legitimate. Feel free to share Raj with others, as long as this note accompanies it when you send it out. Raj may be included in font collections for redistribution as long as this note is included with the font, any fee charged is nominal, and Raj is not represented as anything other than a shareware product.

                                        -Zill*