Rajeesh KV: ICFK 2026: Calligraphy Festival
This year’s edition of International Calligraphy Festival Keralam was yet another great experience, consisting of workshops, demonstrations and talks surrounding calligraphy & typography, much like the last time .
Executive Summary
This year’s edition of International Calligraphy Festival Keralam was yet another great experience, consisting of workshops, demonstrations and talks surrounding calligraphy & typography, much like the last time . Eminent calligraphers of about a dozen scripts shared their expertise and experience. Pictures of a sample collection of the calligraphy works at the exhibition below. For my talk, I presented the historical evolution of Malayalam script from rock inscriptions to the digital age, and how the vigilant volunteer community reclaimed the script with its rich conjuncts and conjoined reph/matra shapes, and made all the foundational digital technologies openly...
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