ICTA is promoting the use of ICT in Sinhala and Tamil, and is addressing issues relating to enabling ICT in local languages such as the relevant standards with regard to encoding, keyboard layouts, collation sequences and also the availability of standards based (Unicode compliant) fonts. At present there is a wide choice with regard to standards based English fonts, but a dearth of standards based Sinhala and Tamil fonts.
The objective of the assignment is to provide a fonts development program targeted to interested font developers on developing and designing aesthetically correct standards-conformant fonts of good quality.
Areas covered will include: personality of fonts and their recommended use; shapes of contemporary and fancy fonts used in print, name boards and hoardings; typography of fonts; introduction to Open Type fonts - fonts, font families, glyphs, features of Open Type Fonts - the freedom to the designer, selecting the glyph set based on use; using a font development program etc.
It is intended that the program will be held in early September 2009.
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