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Pathum Egodawatta is an interdisciplinary designer, thinker, and catalyst working at the intersections of type, text, design, code, and culture.

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Heritage 2020

Digital revival of Sinhala letterforms from the 18th-century Dutch Press in Ceylon.

Conference 2018

International typography conference celebrating 280 years of movable type in Sri Lanka.

Community 2017–2025

Regular typography community meetups in Colombo — a space for letterform enthusiasts.

Conference 2017–2017

International typography conference co-organised in Colombo, Sri Lanka — a founding moment for the Akuru Collective.

Education 2017

Conceptualised and orgnised a forum for design educators to develop and share techniques for teaching typography.

Community 2017–2025

Co-founder of Akuru Collective — Sri Lanka's typography community, 2017–2025.

Typeface design 2015–2099

Co-founder and Managing Director of Sri Lanka's leading multilingual type foundry.

Article 2015

Article on the free and open-source font movement — published in Pool India.

Designer 2014

Was the designer for No More July, a festival against extrimism in Sri Lanka.

Media production 2009–2009

Editing, desinging and producing Kirula, a trilingual magazine at Royal College, Colombo.