Time to talk type

A panel discussion and forum on typography,
text technologies and fonts as infrastructure for culture and economy.

Themes of the discussion will cover font scarcity and limited knowledge and resources digital type and typography is affecting the design process, economic activities and the culture in Sri Lanka and the wider surrounding region.

Keywords: Unicode, Lack of fonts, typography and business, typography and local identity, critical typography problems

  • Gerry Leonidas (President of ATypI, the International Typography Association, Associate Professor of Typography)
  • Pooja Saxena (Typeface designer, India)
  • Lalindra Nanayakkara (Executive Creative Director, Leo Burnett Sri Lanka)
  • Muthu Nedumaran (Typographer, Founder of Murasu System Sdn Bhd, Malaysia)
  • Moderated by Pathum Egodawatta (Typeface designer, Sri Lanka)



Organised by FARU (Faculty of Architecture Research Unit), University of Moratuwa
and Akuru Collective in collaboration with International Advertising Association (IAA Sri Lanka)
and ATypI, the International Typography Association

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Where does the event happen? Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka,
100/20, Independence Avenue
Colombo 07.

WV38+PF Colombo

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LKR1,000.00