Pathum Egodawatta

Typeface designer and researcher.
#Typography #Design #SouthAsianScripts #FreeCulture #Sinhala #Tamil

[Michel Bauwens @mbauwens]

A concept you should know about:

* cosmo-autopoiesis:

"a cosmos that sustains itself through nested, self-producing cycles of transformation"

For the integral theory buffs:

* Spiritual Biology and Cosmo-autopoiesis. A story of fractal subsystems, By Joe Corbett.

"Biology and mythic storytelling often move in parallel rhythms: systems transform what they take in, produce something new, and move toward a regenerated state that sustains the whole. The Krebs cycle is one of the central metabolic loops of the cell, turning nutrients into usable energy and essential building blocks. The hero’s journey is a time-honored narrative arc that reframes personal transformation as a shared cultural process. This essay explores the likenesses among the stages, the products, and the purposes of the Krebs cycle and the hero’s journey, and then enlarges the view to consider how each functions as a subsystem within a broader complex adaptive system—one biological, the other cultural. Finally, it proposes a speculative vision in which these patterns point to a universal form, which we might call cosmo-autopoiesis: a cosmos that sustains itself through nested, self-producing cycles of transformation."

[Drew @mil_itia]

Imagine 38% of ALL books vanishing. 📚🔥 That's happening to the web. @ArweaveEco offers a solution to prevent this digital amnesia.

[Pathum Egodawatta @pathumego]

@NewsWireLK Hmm, got the facts wrong here. Bruno was released from the ICCPR chargers before Nathasha on the 21st of June 2023 at the Colombo Magistrate and was granted bail while Nathasha remained in prison for two more weeks before she was granted bail by Colombo HC

[sarah guo @saranormous]

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon:

[Behdad Esfahbod @behdadesfahbod]

I'd like to share with you the "State of Text Rendering 2024", a survey of the Free & Open Source fonts & text rendering landscape advancements since 2009.

https://t.co/bsAERTzzgh

@harfbuzz @FontTools @googlefonts

[Pathum Egodawatta @pathumego]

@vigsun @onemai_fdn @eliheuer this is interesting :)

[Amnesty International South Asia, Regional Office @amnestysasia]

🇱🇰Sri Lanka’s ICCPR Act, meant to protect human rights, cannot be used as a tool of repression. Any pending charges against comedian Nathasha Edirisooriya must be dropped immediately.
The case will come up next on 15 November at the Colombo Fort Magistrates Court.

[Gehan Gunatilleke @GehanDG]

Happy that this article is now open access:

https://t.co/C3JCBzuXmu

#lkr #FoRB #FreeSpeech

[Google Fonts @googlefonts]

Designers! You can now use the fontbakery Quality/Assurance tool in your web browser. Drag and drop your files onto https://t.co/dhySxKPNG7 to find common font problems 🧁

[Bahman Eslami بهمن اسلامی @bahmantype]

You wanna play a fun game? Try selecting the last word in Perisan or any RTL text in a Mac OS or iOS app. The next level is to select a whole word in bi-directional text. The funniest game from the most profitable multi-billion dollar company! 🙃

#bidirectional #RTL

[Anuruddha Bandara @anuruddha_lka]

උඩුව වෙනුවෙන් අපි
බොරැල්ල පොලීසිය
2023.07.29 | 01:10AM

#ReleaseTharindu

[Pathum Egodawatta @pathumego]

@TiroTypeworks Govt. press and schoolbooks didn't use this fused ligature and instead fප until ෆ was standardized. But two major type foundries in Colombo had this as a separate sort and you can find in text and display. To my knowledge Abhay Libre is the only font that added this so far.

[Pathum Egodawatta @pathumego]

@TiroTypeworks This is the glyph I made for Abhay Libre. Added the whole set, was super fun to make em :)

[Shamara Wettimuny @shamara4w]

Dr. Nadeera Rupesinghe did something unexpected yesterday. To a packed room full of historians and other researchers, she formally apologized for the inaccessibility of the Sri Lanka National Archives, in her capacity as its Director-General. @SL_Archives #lkahistory

[Pathum Egodawatta @pathumego]

@ChamaraVFX Fixed

[Pathum Egodawatta @pathumego]

@TiroTypeworks Fixed

[mikipopaeth @mikipopaeth]

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