Maname - Google Fonts

About

Maname is a text typeface made for Sinhala script with quirky stroke modulation. Maname Latin is informed by the modulation of Sinhala companion and takes a versatile lively form.

This project was orignally conceptualised and prototyped by Pathum Egodawatta as a superfamily with many styles and scripts in partial fulfilment for the requirements for the Master of Arts in Typeface Design (MATD) at the University of Reading, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication in 2016. Since then selected Latin and Sinhala components from the academic project were extended to include support for wider Latin character set and full Sinhala support under the name Maname.

To contribute, please see github.com/mooniak/maname-font.

Designers

Pathum Egodawatta

Mooniak

Mooniak is the global leader in Sinhala type and typography. Based in Sri Lanka, it is a small studio working on Sinhala, Tamil and Thanna script type design, typography and research related. Mooniak believes in free culture and releases almost all of their work under FLOSS licenses.

mooniak.com/

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