Industry: Design

Graphik Bangla

Grotesk plainness meets Bengali script

Arya Purohit extended Christian Schwartz's 2009 Graphik to the Bengali script, with creative direction from Shiva Nallaperumal at November. The adaptation carries forward Graphik's mid-century grotesk plainness—its balance of geometric roundness and European grotesk structure—into Bengali, retaining ball terminals that make the script legible.

Set in Graphik Bangla

Insights

Graphik drew from lesser-known mid-century sources to sidestep the familiarity associations of Univers, Helvetica, or Futura.
The Bengali extension preserves ball terminals because they aid script legibility.