Kimya Gandhi

Kimya Gandhi is a type designer from Mumbai, currently living in Berlin. Specialising in designing Devanagari typefaces, Kimya draws her inspiration from India’s rich and diverse visual landscape and hopes to create new and innovative designs for Indic scripts. Kimya is a partner at the type foundry Mota Italic where she along with Rob Keller designs custom and retail typefaces for clients from various parts of the world. Mota Italic has catered to a range of clients like Škoda, Audi, Google, Apple, to name a few. When not drawing typefaces she spends her time teaching, or conducting workshops on typography and type design at various design institutes. Other than letters, she likes cooking, plants and the colour black.