Vinay Saynekar is a

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, calligrapher and a design educator. He completed his graduation from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai University and joined a paper company, Chimanlal’s Pvt Ltd, as Chief Design Consultant in 1981. He worked for some time and then returned to his college to teach and has been a teacher of

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and

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in JJ since 1984. He has taken several lectures in various Art and Design Colleges, on typefaces and their design. He also visited West Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain for the same purpose in 1988. Saynekar has been honoured as the

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"Guru of the Year" for three consecutive years in 2007–2008, 2008–2009 and 2009–2010. He participated in a group show called ‘3 Calligraphers’. He is a member of Aksharaya – an organisation for the 'Letter Conscious' People. He wrote a book for calligraphy enthusiasts – ''Aksharsaundarya: Nirmiti ani Itihas'' (Beautifying Letters: Creation and History). He has organized workshops for children to introduce them to the world of calligraphy.

Designed fonts

In his association with the typographer Prof

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, he designed fonts for

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including Tunga for

Kannada script The Kannada script ( IAST: ''Kannaḍa lipi''; obsolete: Kanarese or Canarese script in English) is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used to write Kannada, one of the Dravidian languages of South India especially in the state of Karnataka. I ...

and Vrinda for

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. He was a member of the Font Design Team in the

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(CDAC) for almost 15 years from 1992–2007. He has been a part of font designs in

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, Assamese, Bengali, and Kannada. The fonts made for

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are Jan Marathi, Jan Bengali and Jan Kannada. His recent works include typefaces designed in Bengali and Kannada Script for

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and

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ads in Indian regions.

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