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. 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. Tamil glyph-set is based on typefaces by Modular Infotech and Latin was designed to match Sinhala glyph-set by Sol Matas. The project started off with the aim of liberating (open sourcing) FM Abhaya, the most popular Sinhala legacy-format-text-font by Pushpanada Ekanayake. 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. Abhaya Libre project aims to produce the most advanced and complete Sinhala font with coverage for complex representations in Sinhala, Pali and Sanskrit texts. අභය ලිබ්රේ අකුරු මුහුණත / Abhaya Libre FontĪbhaya Libre is a text typeface designed for communications in Sinhala, Tamil and Latin scripts.
