Malayalam first.
The script is the starting point, not an afterthought. Forms are designed around Malayalam's own shapes, proportions, and conjuncts, rather than adapted from a Latin idea.
Fontastic Foundry is an independent Malayalam type foundry based in Kerala, India. Every typeface here is drawn by one person, with one belief: Malayalam deserves letterforms as expressive as the ideas it carries.
I'm Vidhyapriya KS, an independent type designer and the founder of Fontastic Foundry. My work explores Malayalam letterforms through original typeface design and digital font development, creating more ways for designers to express ideas in our script.
Malayalam is a script of curves, loops, and rhythm, with a visual history that belongs to Kerala. Yet designers working in it have often had far fewer typographic choices than those working in Latin. Fontastic Foundry exists to widen that choice, one carefully drawn family at a time.
A typeface is not just a tool. It is a tone of voice.
Each typeface in the collection starts from a feeling or an idea: a bold voice for short, striking messages, a storytelling family for headlines, a set of contrasting forms for display work. From there it is drawn, refined, and built into a working font that designers can use in real projects.
The foundry is independent by design. That means every release carries a single point of view, and every enquiry, whether about a font, a licence, or a custom project, is answered by the person who made the work.
അക്ഷരങ്ങൾക്ക് സ്വന്തം ശബ്ദമുണ്ട്.
The ideas behind every glyph, and the reasons the foundry looks and works the way it does.
The script is the starting point, not an afterthought. Forms are designed around Malayalam's own shapes, proportions, and conjuncts, rather than adapted from a Latin idea.
The same words can whisper, shout, or tell a story depending on the letters used. Each family is built to carry a particular mood, so your message arrives with the right feeling.
A beautiful specimen is only half the job. Fonts are produced as working files, in Unicode for modern software and FML for legacy workflows, so they fit how designers actually work.
No committee, no template. A small foundry means a clear point of view, direct conversations, and typefaces that feel personal rather than generic.
The Fontastic Foundry collection spans bold display faces, storytelling families, contrasting square and rounded forms, and multi-style families like FC-ZINDAGI, which holds six styles from condensed to bold italic.
Fonts are priced between ₹300 and ₹400, and each can be enquired about directly on WhatsApp, where licensing, files, and delivery are confirmed before purchase.
Type directly in modern apps, browsers, and devices with standard Malayalam text input.
Legacy-encoded fonts for established Malayalam design workflows, with encoding-specific specimen text.
Whether it is one of the foundry's own releases or a custom commission, the path from a first sketch to a usable font follows the same four stages.
Understand the mood, the audience, and the technical needs: the glyph set, the encoding, and where the font will be used.
Sketch and refine letterforms until the family has a consistent character across every glyph.
Turn the artwork into working OTF/TTF font files with the spacing and features the design needs.
Share the files with clear licensing terms and stay available for questions once you start using them.
Beyond the ready-made collection, the foundry takes on a small number of custom projects.
Typeface design and font generation based on an agreed glyph set, design direction, and technical requirements.
Projects from ₹25,000 · scope-based quotationRequest a quotation ↗Have a complete glyph set ready? We can help convert supplied AI, PNG, or PDF glyph artwork into functional OTF/TTF font files. Glyph design is not included.
Starting at ₹5,000 · artwork review requiredDiscuss font generation ↗Typography-led design support for posters, campaign creatives, font specimens, and selected visual communication needs.
Quoted according to project scopeShare your design brief ↗New typefaces, process, and Malayalam typography appear across these channels first.
From custom Malayalam typeface design to font generation from completed glyph artwork, let's talk about what your project needs.