Big counters happen to be added as well as tiny ascenders and descenders for optimized screen viewing. This font was named using the name 'King Abhaya', who ruled from 474 BC to 454 BC. Most Newspapers and books use this as the main font for the body text. The ductus references in line with the lines of a Didone typeface add a touch of Sinhala form to certain terminations. At present FM Abhaya is the most widely used Sinhala Font in desktop publishing industry in Sri Lanka. The Latin characters, that match the aesthetics of ‘Abhaya Libre Sinhala’, which was inspired by the style from the original Sinhala with an eminent contrast amongst distinctive strokes that go from thick to thin and was further modified to co-exist with the visual logics of Latin typefaces. Compact ‘Da’ forms can be enabled by utilizing stylistic sets. Each of these weights consists of 925 glyphs that enables clean and precise rendering for Sinhala, Pali and Sanskrit texts.

Available in five weights, Abhaya Libre enables designers to create sophisticated typographic layouts by utilizing lighter weights for body text and heavier weights for headlines and subheadings. The name ‘Abhaya’ is derived from the King Abhaya (474 BCE to 454 BCE) who reigned Sri Lanka from the ancient kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara.Ībhaya Libre’ was fully redrawn from scratch depending on FM Abhaya to comply with modern day usages in terms of internet, tab and smaller sized sizes for smartphones. Developed in 1996, ‘FM Abhaya’ is an interpretation with the Sinhala letterpress typefaces from 1960s. Abhaya Libre will be the unicode compliant, complete libre version of the most broadly utilised Sinhala typeface ‘FM Abhaya’ and includes Sinhala and Latin assistance.

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