While typography incorporates optimising its readability, legibility and graphic balance, it is in enormous part, about its purpose and functionality. In wayfinding design, typography plays a major role by displaying information, and good typography can lead to better communication.

This practice-based research aims at understanding the readability issues of Devanagari typefaces used on LED Dot Matrix Displays in public transport of India and optimise its readability leading to effective communication. The research is approached through development of a Devanagari typeface to understand both aesthetic and technical aspects of the complex structure of Devanagari and maintain its design within the LED dot matrix systems.