Workshop on type design in Singapore as part of the Crafting Type workshop series.
All projects and work
This is meant to be a complte archive of all work that I did and I will do in the future. Work in the wide sense encompassing projects, experiments, writings, talks, collaborations, and more across all domains and disciplines. The filters are provided to navigate through the archive and find specific subsets of work based on different intersections of my identity, the type and context of work, and the epoch in which it was done. The archive is a work in progress and will be updated as I continue to create and document my work.
As of today, it contains 35 items spanning from 2004 to the present, and will continue to grow as I add more past work and new work in the future. Pathum Egodawatta;
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35 projects
Talk at Sri Lanka Design Festival on building a sustainable fonts industry in Sri Lanka.
Was a founding member of the DesignAct community in Sri Lanka.
Chief Curator of the W A Silva Museum — preserving Sri Lanka's language and typographic heritage.
Director of the Institute of Typography — Sri Lanka, overseeing the W A Silva Museum.
Digital revival of Sinhala letterforms from the 18th-century Dutch Press in Ceylon.
Workshop on type design in Singapore as part of the Crafting Type workshop series.
ATypI's first Working Seminar in 27 years — hosted in Colombo with a focus on teaching typography.
Workshop on typography for Sinhala children's book design, organised by IBBY Sri Lanka.
A talk examining how colonial typographic conventions persist in South Asian design practice.
Knowledge exchange exploring shared typographic heritage between Sri Lanka and the Netherlands.
International typography conference celebrating 280 years of movable type in Sri Lanka.
Research into the historical disappearance of Kundaliya — the traditional Sinhala paragraph mark.
Regular typography community meetups in Colombo — a space for letterform enthusiasts.
International typography conference co-organised in Colombo, Sri Lanka — a founding moment for the Akuru Collective.
A survey and assessment of the state of Sinhala typography on the web and in digital environments.
Cofounded and produced Kolonbiya, a popular Sinhala Youtube series in Sri Lanka
Conceptualised and orgnised a forum for design educators to develop and share techniques for teaching typography.
Co-founder of Akuru Collective — Sri Lanka's typography community, 2017–2025.
A historical survey of key developments in Sinhala typography during the 19th century.
MA in Typeface Design with Distinction, University of Reading, UK (2016).
Essay marking International Mother Language Day, on the duality of linguistic identity in Sri Lanka.
Reconciliation and revival through letterforms — published in Communication Arts.
Talks at Libre Graphics Meeting in Toronto (2015) and London (2016) on Indic text in free software. LGM 2016, London, UK
Talks at Libre Graphics Meeting in Toronto (2015) and London (2016) on Indic text in free software.
Article on the free and open-source font movement — published in Pool India.
Contributions to Unicode and SLS1134 standards for Sinhala script encoding and text rendering.
Examining how typography was used as a tool of political identity and conflict in Sri Lanka.
Was the designer for No More July, a festival against extrimism in Sri Lanka.
Cofounded Scribble! a designer stastationary bussiness in Sri Lanka
Ongoing contributions to free and open-source font projects for Sinhala and South Asian scripts.
Type design and consultancy for Google Fonts covering the South Asian / Indian region.
A graduation typeface project exploring the shared visual space between Sinhala and Tamil letterforms.
Editing, desinging and producing Kirula, a trilingual magazine at Royal College, Colombo.