Re: [sinhala-technical] LKLUG Font Update and Packaging Abhaya for Linux

[A. R.W. <ar...@uc...>]

I guess what Pathum hasn't mentioned, and why Harshula may have asked the
3rd question, is that the font is done with the blessings and active
collaboration of Pushpananda who's the owner of the FM Abhaya font.

I fully support an initiative to get a better font into the Linux distros:
at Gnome level would be best right?

Ruvan.


On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Pathum Egodawatta <pa...@mo...>
wrote:

> CC Randika, a friend at Mooniak, working on opentype and build system for
> fonts.
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:27 PM Harshula <har...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hi Pathum,
>>
>> 1) I think I added you to the sinhala-technical mailing list a few
>> months ago. Feel free to request feedback on your font on that list.
>>
>> Will do.
>
>
>> 2) LKLUG font is deprecated and not recommended.
>>
>> Yes,  But there is not other Sinhala Font Family for GNU/Linux at the
> moment. All the GNU/Linux distors depend on LKLUG for Sinhala support from
> what I've seen. Packaging Abhaya Libre would be the immediate
> solution. Dhanishka has offered to do this for Fedora. Im not familiear
> with how to do this (Im a designer :) But Ideal solution would be to do a
> custom GPL/OFL licensed font for GNU/linux UI. We could do a Sinhala
> version for Fedora's Lohit family, or GNOME's Cantrell font family.
>
>
>> 3) The glyphs in your Abhaya font look remarkably familiar? Can you tell
>> me a bit about its origins?
>>
>> Its the FM Abhaya font, refactored and optimised for web and screen.
> http://mooniak.com/abhaya-libre-font/tests/
>
> We expanded it into 5 weights and now it has its own custom Latin glyph
> set as well.  You can see a comprehensive description here:
> https://github.com/mooniak/abhaya-libre-font
>
>
>> cya,
>> #
>>
>> On 23/09/15 00:35, Pathum Egodawatta wrote:
>> > Hi Harshula,
>> >
>> > I am font designer and a free software enthusiast. Would love to have a
>> > chat with you :) Have some questions about your early work with LKLUG
>> > and would like to discuss about future of LKLUG font.
>> >
>> > You can see some of our projects here.
>> > https://github.com/mooniak/
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Pathum
>>
>
>
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