📅 Friends of Figma Kochi
This Saturday, September 29th, Friends of Figma, Kochi is hosting a session where I’ll be talking about typography, FOSS, and enterprise design. I’ll share stories from working on type design, building FOSS tools, and what I’ve learned about systems and teams. It’s a causal conversation and if you’re around, I’d be glad to see you there.
🎊 Two Celebrations
Narayana Bhattathiri sir is now the honorary director of the World Calligraphy Association. Ershad, a friend, fellow SMC contributor, and former-colleague, is now the CEO of Gumroad! The internet is buzzing about it, and I couldn’t be happier for them.
#️⃣ Tamil Numbers in Font-Making
Here is an article on Tamil arithmetic figures that explains how Tamil numbers are more than just digits. The author walks through the history of Tamil numerals and why making fonts for them is both demanding and rewarding.
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Bangalore is event-central in early December: Bangalore Literature Festival (Dec 6-7 at Freedom Park) and Craft Chocolate Festival 2025 (Dec 5-7 at Sabha Bangalore). Books and chocolate in the same weekend.
Canva bought Affinity last year, and just released the all-new Affinity V3. It combines Photo, Designer, and Publisher into one app. The big news? It’s now completely free. Will it stay that way?
SEBI isn’t playing around with digital gold. They’ve issued a clear warning. Worth reading if you’re dabbling in that space.
Kevin Kelly wrote an amazing note on self-publishing. Bookmark it if you’re thinking about going that route.
SVGL is a beautiful collection of optimized SVG logos with ready-to-use code snippets for developers and designers. Clean, scalable, ready to use.
DiagramChasing ran an experiment on how Bangalore uses the metro. A Data Visualization that represents us.
If you are in a mood to try different coffee roast profile, check Aramse, they offer coffee subscriptions.
Meta will start reading your DMs to train AI from December 16. Here’s how to opt out.
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