Akhilesh Gupta (1969)
He is a typographical engineer.
| 1987 | Started learning Computer Fundamentals & BASIC. |
| 1989 | Started learning C. |
| 1991 | Wrote 'Sugam' (ISCII <-> Proprietary-Code Converter) in C. |
| 1992 | Wrote a bitmap PCL font editor in C. |
| 1993 | Started developing a small DevaNagari editor 'LeKhaNi' (Lekhni). |
| 1995 | Designed a DevaNagari-Latin font. Probably this was the first Hindi English font! |
| 1996 | Finalised version 1.1 of 'Lekhni'. |
| 1997 | Designed more DevaNagari-Latin font(s). |
| 1998 | Finalised version 1.2 of 'Lekhni'. |
| 2000 | Learned Java. |
| 2001 | Finalised version 2.0 of Lekhni |
| 2002 | Wrote notes on Saral Nagari etc. |
| 2003 | Started developing a Unicode based OpenType font. |
| 2004 | Finished our first Unicode based OpenType font. |
| 2005 | Developed Sugam 98 - for entering Unicode DevaNagari text in Windows 98! |
| 2006 | Finalised iNagari - a keyboard layout for Indic Scripts. |
| 2008 | Developed _naagaree-128 - a transliteration scheme for converting DevaNagari text to Latin text. |
| 2012 | Developing Saras-Nāgarī - another transliteration scheme for converting DevaNagari text to Latin text. |
Apart from learning computer programming, developing DevaNagari fonts and writing software, he did following.
| 1990 | Graduated in Industrial Engineering. |
| 1991 | Started DTP business (SurNeer). |
| 1997 | Established Aditi Info. |
| 2005 | Started softfonts.com ... |
The fonts and software designed by Akhilesh don't have odd (infrequent) conjuncts. He devoted a lot of time developing his preferences about Nagari. Read about 'Saral Nagari'!
He kept on developing LeKhaNi as an intelligent(!) interface for keying in bilingual text of Nagari languages and English for years. But since 2002 he switched to Unicode based solution.
