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Pushpananda Ekanayaka

Creator of the Sinhala font FMEconbldBold (1998) and known for his FM Abhaya (1996), the most widely used Sinhala typeface, an interpretation of the earliest Sinhala letterpress typefaces. The name Abhaya comes after the King Abhaya (474 BC to 454 BC) who ruled Sri Lanka in the ancient kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara. This site offers FMArjunnx, FMBasurux, FMDeranax, FMEmaneex, FMGanganeex, FMGemunux, FMSamanthax, all made in 1998. Here we have FMBasurux, FMBindumathix, FMDeranax, FMEmaneex, FMGanganeex, FMGemunux, FMMalithix, FMRajanthax, FMEconbldBold, FMAbhayax, FMArjunnx. His MalithiWeb (2004) is here.

In 2016, Abhaya Libre was published by Google Fonts, which writes: Abhaya Libre 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 [didone style] designed by Sol Matas. For the Opentype engineering, Matas and Ekanayaka were helped by Pathum Egodawatta and Ayantha Randika. All was supervised by Mooniak, a collective of designers and creatives based in Sri Lanka. The Mooniak type studio works with designers to produce quality fonts for South Asian scripts, and supports free culture by releasing almost all of their work under libre licenses.

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Sinhala fonts ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿