![]() ![]() The large counters and generous x-height, with small ascenders and descenders, create an excellent and highly legible reading experience on small screens. Equal care was taken to design the widths of Latin characters to get a nice balance between both writing systems. ![]() The heights of the uppercase and lowercase letters and their position on the baseline are all carefully considered to best match the Sinhala. The ductus inherits the Didone type and is accompanies by some Sinhala forms for certain terminals. 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 new and original Latin design is by Sol Matas and was made to match Abhaya Libre’s Sinhala. The name ‘Abhaya’ comes after the King Abhaya (474 BCE to 454 BCE) who ruled Sri Lanka in the ancient kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara. It is an interpretation of the earliest Sinhala letterpress typefaces. ‘FM Abhaya’ was designed in 1996 and is the most widely used Sinhala typeface. Abhaya Libre Free Font Family is the Unicode compliant and complete libre version of Pushpananda Ekanayakes’s FM Abhaya font, the most popular Sinhala typeface on Earth, with a new and original Latin designed by Sol Matas.
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