Aksana Indonesia Kaya

Indonesia Kaya 2025: Aksara Nusantara Reimagined for a New Generation

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.

He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections.

The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.

Whats happened to me? he thought. It wasn not a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls.

A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame.

It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather.

About Font

Introduced alongside Indonesia Kaya’s new visual identity in 2025, Aksana was developed in collaboration with Evan Wijaya, the designer behind the identity’s logo and branding, extending that rebrand under the ADGI Hub program for the cultural initiative supported by Bakti Budaya Djarum Foundation.

Aksana draws its forms from Indonesia’s traditional scripts, weaving the character of Hanacaraka, Kaganga, Balinese, Batak, and Lontara letterforms into a Latin display sans, finished with a subtle inscriptional edge that recalls the feel of carved, timeless characters. Built as a single style meant to carry weight and presence, the typeface is designed to make ancestral heritage feel immediate again, a bridge for younger generations discovering the richness of Nusantara’s written traditions through a contemporary lens, standing as an answer to a question at the heart of Indonesia Kaya itself: how tradition can move forward without losing its roots.

Font Information

Commissioned ByEvan Wijaya
ClientIndonesia Kaya
ClassificationDisplay Sans
Principal DesignBeni Mustafa Kamal
Type DesignGha Arizal, Abdurrahman Hanif
Font Release2025

Language Supports:

Afrikaans • Albanian • Asu • Basque • Bemba • Bena • Cebuano • Chiga • Cornish • Corsican • Czech • Dutch • English • Estonian • Filipino • Finnish • Friulian • Galician • German • Gusii • Haitian Creole • Ido • Indonesian • Interlingua • Irish • Iskonawa • Italian • Javanese • Jju • Kabuverdianu • Kalenjin • Kinyarwanda • Lojban • Luo • Luxembourgish • Luyia • Machame • Makhuwa-Meetto • Makonde • Malagasy • Malay • Manx • Morisyen • North Ndebele • Northern Sotho • Nyanja • Nyankole • Occitan • Oromo • Portuguese • Romansh • Rombo • Rundi • Rwa • Samburu • Sango • Sangu • Sardinian • Scottish Gaelic • Sena • Shambala • Shipibo-Konibo • Shona • Slovak • Slovenian • Soga • Somali • South Ndebele • Southern Sotho • Spanish • Sundanese • Swahili • Swati • Swedish • Swiss German • Taita • Taroko • Teso • Tsonga • Tswana • Turkmen • Vunjo • Welsh • Wolastoqey • Xhosa • Zulu

Scripts: Latin