[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia logo in Sinhala

[Yann Forget]

Hi Cary,

2010/6/23 Cary Bass <cary at wikimedia.org>:
> I had a rough time trying to find a Sinhala font that
>
> 1) Worked on my laptop system in Linux.
> 2) Worked in Inkscape without serious spacing errors.
> 3) Isn't way too heavy or way too light to represent Wikipedia.
>
> I found something called "Iskoola Pota" which seems to me to have
> worked.  However, not knowing Sinhala, I have no clue whether it does,
> in fact, look right, or appropriate.
>
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-si.svg>
>
> If anyone can provide any insight; I would be delighted.
>
> PS: I still haven't found an appropriate font for the Gujarati logo.
> Ideas and/or help are welcome.

I don't know about Sinhala, but there is free font for Indian
languages, including Gujarati which is called Lohit
{Bengali|Gujarati|Hindi|Kannada|Oriya|Punjabi||Tamil|Telugu}.

> --
> Cary Bass
> Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation

Regards,

Yann