Open-source tools and standards from the studio for designing, building and understanding Sinhala and Tamil type.
Web appFeatured
Design research and browser tools for drawing Sinhala type: a dependency-based drawing order, spacing and composite models, a glyph chart tester, a test-text generator and side-by-side font comparison.
License: GPL-3.0Sinhala
Glyphs scripts
Python scripts for the Glyphs font editor from the studio's font production, including tools for .glyphspackage sources and for setting mark categories.
License: GPL-3.0Sinhala · Tamil
SpecificationFeatured
An open standard for trilingual text: a plain-text format, built on Markdown, for writing Sinhala, Tamil and English versions of a document side by side in one file.
License: MITSinhala · Tamil · Latin
DatasetFeatured
The glyphset standard for Sri Lankan fonts: cumulative Sinhala levels (Kernel, Core, Plus, Pro) mapped to ICTA levels, a Tamil glyphset and a glyph-naming standard. Published as @mooniak/lankaglyphsets on npm and mnik-lankafea on PyPI.
Sinhala · Tamil
Web app
An interactive kiosk from the Akurugraphy exhibition that shows how a computer sees language: type in Sinhala, Tamil or Latin and watch each word break down into Unicode code points, shaped glyphs and outline geometry.
Sinhala · Tamil · Latin