Abhaya Libre font

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Abhaya Libre Serif Font

It’s a sophisticated serif with high contrast. This typeface has been made carefully to make sure its premium quality and luxury feel. Abhaya Libre is designed for all your stylish fashion​ magazines, clothing brands and logos as well as your elegant blogger themes.

Abhaya Libre project aims to produce the most advanced and complete Sinhala font with coverage for complex representations in Sinhala, Pali and Sanskrit texts. In the true spirit of Libre Fonts movement Abhaya Libre project brought together existing projects and a group of designers to develop a coherent typeface. The project started off with the aim of liberating (open sourcing) FM Abhaya, the most popular Sinhala legacy-format-text-font by Pushpanada Ekanayake.

The drawings for the original FM Abhaya was based on the common text typeface used by the Department of Government Printing in the 1970s—1990s. The roots of this style relates to the modulation structure and aesthetics introduced to Sinhala script by the N J Cooray of the Cooray Type Foundry in the late 1800s. FM Abhaya font which had a limited glyphs set in ASCII encoding was redrawn and expanded into a family with five weights and more glyphs. Driven by rigorous research and community contributions, Abhaya Libre includes an extensive set of ligatures, alternates, stylistic alternates, historical ligatures and Opentype features to support proper representation of text in Sinhala, Pali and Sanskrit langauges.

Thanks Mooniak, Sol Matas for creating such a great font! Abhaya Libre Serif Font is free for personal & commercial use. Please download and enjoy, or can search more similar fonts on befonts.