Designers
John Hudson and Fiona Ross, assisted by Kaja Słojewska and Paul Hanslow
Supports
Sinhala, Latin
Release history
2025
Version 1.00
License Agreement
Tiro Sinhala is designed to be comparable in weight and proportion with other Tiro Indic fonts, and like them is especially well-suited to traditional literary publishing but also made with the needs of today’s multiple print and screen media in mind. The design is informed by the conventions of 19th Century metal types, but particularly inspired by handwritten and engraved lettering of that period, reflecting the transition from Sri Lankan palm leaf manuscripts to writing with European pens. The fonts support the modern, simplified orthography as defined as default behaviour in the Unicode Standard, but also use of the ZWJ formatting control character to affect traditional conjunct forms. In additional to Sinhala language, the fonts can be used for Sanskrit and Pāli texts.
Designer
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Italic adaptation
Italic adaptation