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Maname began as a multiscript type family for Sinhala, Tamil and Latin, designed for the MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading in 2015–16. Its Sinhala and Latin regular is now on Google Fonts, and the rest of the family will follow over the next few years.
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Noto Sans Sinhala ships with Android and renders most Sinhala text on screens worldwide. Google commissioned Mooniak to redesign it: we improved the drawings, rebuilt how it composes Sinhala, and cut its file size by about 60%.
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Abhaya Libre is an open source text typeface for Sinhala, Tamil and Latin. We liberated FM Abhaya, the most widely used Sinhala typeface, and redrew it from scratch for screens with its original designer.
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Stick No Bills is a libre Latin, Sinhala and Tamil stencil typeface, made for a poster gallery in Galle Fort, built from the stencil structure up and released on Google Fonts in 2021.