Abhaya Libre是一種用於僧伽羅語、泰米爾語和拉丁語交流的字體。Abhaya Libre項目旨在生產最先進、最完整的僧伽羅字體，涵蓋僧伽羅語、巴利語和梵語文本中的複雜表示。
本著自由字體運動的真正精神，Abhaya Libre項目將現有項目和一群設計師聚集在一起，開發出一種連貫的字體。該項目一開始的目的是解放（開源）FM Abhaya，這是Pushpanada Ekanayake最流行的僧伽羅傳統格式文本字體。泰米爾語字形集基於Modular Infotech的字體，拉丁語是為匹配Sol Matas的僧伽羅語字形集而設計的。
最初的FM Abhaya的圖紙是基於政府印刷部在20世紀70年代至90年代使用的通用字體。這種風格的根源與19世紀末庫雷類型鑄造廠的N J庫雷引入僧伽羅文字的調製結構和美學有關。FM Abhaya字體在ASCII編碼中設置了有限的字形，該字體被重新繪製並擴展為具有五個字形和更多字形的家族。在嚴格的研究和社區貢獻的推動下，Abhaya Libre包括一套廣泛的連字、交替詞、文體交替詞、歷史連字和Opentype功能，以支持僧伽羅語、巴利語和梵語語言的正確表達。
拉丁文字與“Abhaya Libre Sinhala”的美學相匹配，其靈感來源於原始僧伽羅語的風格，從粗到細的獨特筆畫之間形成了鮮明的對比，並經過進一步修改，與拉丁字體的視覺邏輯共存。根據Didone字體的線條，導管參考為某些終端添加了一點僧伽羅語形式。為了優化屏幕觀看效果，增加了大型計數器以及小型升降器。
“Abhaya”這個名字來源於古代烏帕蒂薩·努瓦拉王國統治斯里蘭卡的國王Abhaya（前474年至前454年）。
這項技術的最初開發是由谷歌字體資助的。該項目由Mooniak領導，Mooniak是一個位於斯裡蘭卡科倫坡的設計師合作團體，FM Abhaya字體的設計師Pushpananda Ekanayake和拉丁設計師Sol Matas合作。
Abhaya Libre is a text typeface designed for communications in Sinhala, Tamil and Latin scripts. 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. Tamil glyph-set is based on typefaces by Modular Infotech and Latin was designed to match Sinhala glyph-set by Sol Matas.
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 wieghts 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.
The Latin characters, that match the aesthetics of ‘Abhaya Libre Sinhala’, which was inspired by the style of the original Sinhala with an eminent contrast between distinctive strokes that go from thick to thin and was further modified to co-exist with the visual logics of Latin typefaces. The ductus references according to the lines of a Didone typeface add a touch of Sinhala form to certain terminations. Large counters have been added along with small ascenders and descenders for optimized screen viewing.
The name ‘Abhaya’ comes after the King Abhaya (474 BCE to 454 BCE) who reigned Sri Lanka from the ancient kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara.
The initial development of this was funded by Google Fonts. Project is led by Mooniak, a collaborative collective of designers based in Colombo Sri Lanka with the cooperation of Pushpananda Ekanayake, the designer of the FM Abhaya font and Sol Matas as the Latin designer.
本字體以SIL Open Font License 1.1（SIL 開源字型授權版本1.1，簡稱SIL OFL 或OFL）授權協議發佈，這個授權的自由度非常高：
✔ 這款字體無論是個人還是企業都可以自由免費商用，無需知會或者標明原作者。
✔ 這款字體可以自由傳播、分享，或者將字體安裝於系統、軟件或APP中也是允許的，可以與任何軟件捆綁再分發以及／或一併銷售。
✔ 這款字體可以自由修改、改造，但修改或改造後的字體也必須同樣以SIL Open Font License 1.1授權公開。
✘ 這款字體禁止用於違法行為，如因使用這款字體產生糾紛或法律訴訟，作者不承擔任何責任。
✘ 根據SIL Open Font License 1.1的規定，禁止單獨出售字體文件(OTF/TTF文件)的行為。
關於SIL Open Font License 1.1授權協議的內容、免責事項等詳細細節，請查看詳細的License授權文件的內容。
字體來源出處1：http://mooniak.com/abhaya-libre-font/
字體來源出處2：https://github.com/mooniak/abhaya-libre-font
字體來源出處3：https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Abhaya+Libre （需要科學上網才能打開）
