This is an abridged form of an that essay first appeared as Issue 7 / A Type Tour of Indiranagar of my newsletter I Spy with my Typographic Eye. Read the original, which includes a look at Kannada newspaper nameplates, and subscribe to the newsletter. Last autumn, I found myself in Bangalore and as I spent […]

This is an abridged form of an that essay first appeared as Issue 3 / Letters of Connaught Place of my newsletter I Spy with my Typographic Eye. Read the original, which includes a list of Instagram accounts that focus on capturing street lettering from Southeast Asia, and subscribe to the newsletter. For some years now, […]

Over on Paper Planes, I wrote about the very personal story of how I began looking out for and documenting the decrepit signs of single-screen cinemas in Delhi about five years ago, and about some of my favourites from the lot. I also drew an illustration of the now-lost façade of Paras Cinema. Read my […]

For a postcard that went as part of Champaca Bookstore’s book subscription parcel focused on English translations of Kannada texts, I drew an homage to one of my favourite Kannada signs in Bangalore, that of the Bengalee Association in Ulsoor. The Kannada is part of a trio of signs, which also includes Latin and Bangla. […]

Last month I conducted my very first type walk in Bangalore. A group of us walked from Koshy’s at Anil Kumble Circle to Cauvery Emporium at the beginning of Brigade Road, and ended the morning with breakfast at India Coffee House. I spoke about a range of subjects — a bit of printing history related […]

I debuted a new walk this month in Delhi’s Nicholson Cemetery, where a group of us got the opportunity to look at some of the oldest Latin letters to be seen in the city: ranging in styles from blackletter to grotesque to tuscan, a few even dating back almost two centuries. We spotted letters on […]

For this year’s edition of #36DaysOfType, I tried to shine a spotlight on the ingenious letter designs of local sign-makers in India. Every day, the letter or number I posted was based on a sign that I have spotted in the wild. The inspiration came from signs in Udaipur (Rajasthan), Panjim and Mapusa (Goa), Mumbai […]

I was thrilled to run an updated avatar of my type walk from Delhi Walk Festival a few times this winter. It follows one of the main market streets in Paharganj, a neighbourhood that has existed since the Mughal era and dates back to the early eighteenth century. We start and finish at two important […]