Devanagari TypeCooker is a simple online contraption that produces “recipes”, or a list of formal parameters related to typographic shapes, which can be used as a starting point to draw letterforms. While they may appear random, the parameters have been carefully chosen after a survey of Devanagari typefaces and lettering samples, and offer opportunities to contemplate the script’s letterforms in imaginative ways. The recipes can be of increasing levels of complexity, offering apposite challenges to novice as well as experienced practitioners. You can read about the making of Devanagari TypeCooker and how its parameters were chosen here.

Devanagari TypeCooker can be used in classes or workshops, but works equally well for solitary practices of drawing letterforms. If you use Devanagari Typecooker, I’d love to see your results and hear feedback.