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සිංහලයට සz අකුරක්?
සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාවට සz ශබ්දය වෙනුවෙන් අකුරක් හා සලකුණක් හඳුන්වා දීම
Sinhala
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Case study
Maname: Case Study
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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Casting Sinhala: how early printers shaped Sinhala type
The letterforms of Sinhala type were set less by scribes than by three presses: the Dutch Government Press in Colombo, the Serampore Mission Press in Bengal and the Wesleyan Mission Press in Colombo. How a script shaped by the stylus became a script cast in metal, from 1737 to the 1860s.
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සිංහල යුනිකේත
Unicode-ට පෙර පැවති අක්ෂර කේත ක්‍රම සිට සිංහල අක්ෂර සංයෝග, ZWJ සහ බැඳි අකුරු දක්වා — සිංහල යුනිකේතය පිළිබඳ විස්තරාත්මක මාර්ගෝපදේශයක්.
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Sinhala vowel signs: how pili modify a consonant
Every Sinhala consonant carries an inherent a. Vowel signs, called pili, change that vowel. This guide covers what they are, how Unicode stores them in logical order, and what a font has to do to draw them.
Case study
Noto Sans Sinhala: Case Study
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: Case Study
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: Case Study
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.
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දුස්ටකමේ සවුන්දර්ය පොතකට ගෙනා හැටි
ගෙවී ගිය සැප්තැම්බරයේ මංජුල වෙඩිවර්ධන බොහෝ කලකට පසුව කෙටි කතා එකතුවක් පළ කරන්නට යෙදුණා. වෙඩ්ඩාගේ කතා රුචි පාඨක පිරිස කාලෙකින් ලැබුණු මේ තෑග්ග වැළඳගත්තේ ඉමහත් ආදරයෙන්. ‘දුස්ටකමේ සවුන්දර්ය සහ රත්මලානේ…