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‘FM Abhaya’ was designed in 1996 and is the most widely used Sinhala typeface.
It is an interpretation of the earliest Sinhala letterpress typefaces.
The name ‘Abhaya’ comes after the King Abhaya (474 BCE to 454 BCE) who reigned Sri Lanka from the ancient kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara.
The name ‘Abhaya’ comes after the King Abhaya (474 BCE to 454 BCE) who ruled Sri Lanka in the ancient kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara.
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In the Unicode adaptation process, the FM Abhaya font was completely redrawn from the scratch to suit the modern usages in Web, Tablets and smaller sizes for Smartphones.
Abhaya Libre comes in 5 weights which enables designers to build sophisticated typographic layouts.
Lighter weights suites mostly for body text and heavier weights do best in title settings.
In the Unicode adaptation process the FM Abhaya font was completely redrawn from the scratch to suit contemporary usage at text sizes on the web, on tablets and on smartphones.
Abhaya Libre comes in 5 weights to enable designers to build sophisticated typographic layouts.
Lighter weights are suitable for body text and heavier weights do their best work in title settings.
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Each of those weights contains 925 glyphs that enables clean and precise rendering for Sinhala, Pali and Sanskrit texts.
The special compact ‘Da’ forms can be enabled using stylistic sets.
Each style contains 925 glyphs for clean and precise rendering of Sinhala, Pali and Sanskrit texts.
OpenType stylistic sets contain special compact ‘Da’ forms.
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It comes with a Latin set designed by Sol Matas to match the aesthetics of Abhaya Libre Sinhala.
The Latin set was inspired by the style of the original Sinhala, with the notable inherent contrast in between thick and thin strokes, was modified to tally with the visualization logics of Latin typefaces.
The ductus references according to the lines of a Didone typeface add some Sinhala forms to certain terminations.
After several tests and discussions we agreed on the height for uppercase and lowercase to match harmoniously with Sinhala.
The width of each character and its position on the baseline have been carefully designed to get a nice balance between both writing systems.
Its large counters and large x-height with small ascenders and descenders optimize the reading experience on small screens.
The new and original Latin design is by Sol Matas and was made to match Abhaya Libre’s Sinhala.
Thoroughly inspired by the style of the Sinhala, the inherent differences in stroke contrast (the thick and thin parts of letterforms) was modified to tally with the visualization logics of Latin typefaces.
The ductus inherits the Didone type and is accompanies by some Sinhala forms for certain terminals.
The heights of the uppercase and lowercase letters and their position on the baseline are all carefully considered to best match the Sinhala.
Equal care was taken to design the widths of Latin characters to get a nice balance between both writing systems.
The large counters and generous x-height, with small ascenders and descenders, create an excellent and highly legible reading experience on small screens.
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Thanks to Pushpanada Ekanayake for leading the design of the Sinhala and creating the original FM Abhaya;
Sol Matas for leading the design of the Latin;
and Pathum Egodawatta and Ayantha Randika for contributing to the project in consulting, managing and OpenType engineering.
Special thanks to Sumantri Samarawickrama, and Liang Hai for consultancy.
And thanks to all the testers on Twitter.
and Pathum Egodawatta and Ayantha Randika for contributing with consulting, managing and OpenType engineering.
Special thanks to Sumantri Samarawickrama and Liang Hai for consultancy, and to all the testers during development on Twitter.
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The Abhaya Libre project is led by Mooniak, a collaborative collective of designers based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.