RIT-Bahadur Malayalam typeface

Saturday, 31 May 2025 | Rajeesh K Nambiar

In 1978, a commemorative souvenir was published to celebrate the milestone of acting in 400 films by Bahadoor, a celebrated Malayalam movie actor. Artist Namboodiri designed its cover caricature and the lettering.

Cover of Bahadoor souvenir designed by artist Namboodiri in 1978.

Based on this lettering, KH Hussain designed a traditional script Malayalam Unicode font named ‘RIT Bahadur’. I did work on the engineering and production of the font to release it on the 25th death anniversary of Bahadoor, on 22-May-2025.

National daily ‘The Hindu’ has published an article about Bahadur font.

RIT Bahadur is a display typeface that comes in Bold and BoldItalic variants. It is licensed under Open Font License and can be freely downloaded from Rachana website.