Akhilesh Gupta (23-2-1969)
Our director Akhilesh Gupta is a typographical engineer. He is not a regular typographer or type-designer.
| 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 in C. Named it 'Emend'. |
| 1994 | Kept on developing 'Emend' and renamed it to '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'. |
| 1999 | Started marketing and promoting Lekhni! |
| 2001 | Finalised version 2.0 of Lekhni |
| 2002 | Wrote notes on Saral Nagari etc. |
| 2003 | Started converting one of our TrueType font to Unicode encoded OpenType font. |
| 2004 | Finished our first Unicode encoded OpenType font. |
| 2005 | Developed iNagari - a keyboard layout for Indic Scripts. |
| 2007 | Developed xNagari - a transliteration scheme for converting Devanagari Text to Latin Text. |
Developing Nagari (aka Devanagari) fonts and software wasn't rewarding for us! May be because we operate from a small town (Gondia) and don't have inclination towards marketing.
Apart from learning computer programming, developing DevaNagari fonts and writing software, he did following.
| 1990 | Graduated in Industrial Engineering. |
| 1991 | Started DTP business (SurNir Printek). |
| 1997 | Established Aditi Info. |
| 2000 | Learned Java. |
| 2004 | Floated ISE... |
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 alas, in 2002 we stopped promoting it and started working on Unicode based solutions. Now we promote and sell our Unicode solutions Sugam-98 and Sugam-2K!