Pathum Egodawatta
Type Director Co-founder at mooniak
Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolPathum Egodawatta is a type director and co‑founder with 12 years’ experience specialising in fonts, encoding technologies, and typographic design, based in Sri Lanka. He leads mooniak and co‑founded Akuru Collective, bridging type design, open‑source tooling and community building for South Asian scripts. His work on Sinhala generation rules for ICANN and leadership of the Google Fonts Sinhala effort show a rare mix of script standardisation, cross‑script variant resolution, and collaborative engineering. Trained with distinction in typeface design at the University of Reading, he pairs academic rigour with practical foundry and web font delivery experience. An often‑unseen strength is his ability to translate complex encoding and variant issues into implementable font engineering and policy proposals.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Typeface Design, Distinction, Master of Arts (M.A.), Typeface Design, Distinction at University of ReadingBachelor of Arts (BA), Graphic Design, First Class, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Graphic Design, First Class at Northumbria UniversityRoyal College, ColomboB.A. (Hons) in Graphic Design, Graphic Design, B.A. (Hons) in Graphic Design, Graphic Design at Academy of Design
Sinhalese, English, Tamil
Github Skills (131)
interpretation10
font-manager10
google-font10
phonetics10
cjk10
latin10
stencil10
input-method10
inkscape10
opentype-fonts10
opentype10
fonts10
templeos10
fontforge10
tamil10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
CodeLanka/sinhala-web
May 2015 - Oct 2018
A directory of Sinhala Websites, and instruction to set up Sinhala Web Fonts
Contributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 4 months
webfonts
pathumego/essential-ppa-list
Mar 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:90 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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