Stick No Bills Font

Stick No Bills - was developed as the bespoke Libre typeface of Stick No Bills Poster Gallery in Galle, Sri Lanka. The font supports Latin, Sinhala and Tamil languages.

Martyn Hodges developed the first drawings for the typeface for uppercase. In February 2015, Meg Baber, co-founder of Stick No Bills gallery, commissioned Mooniak took up the project in 2015 and is working on further refining and developing a comprehensive font with support for more languages. Post No Bills family contains six weights from Extra Light to Extra Bold intended for headlines. Post No Bills contains Sinhala and Latin glyphs sets and Post No Bills Jaffna contains Tamil and Latin glyph sets. The stencil is the solutions for creating a reproducible, replicable lettering. Sinhala stenciled letters are common in Sri Lankan Railway cars and busses. There is no accepted style or universal consensus on the cuts, and that is the beauty of stencil. All of these have different stencil cuts in very different places without an aim to overall make-up harmony. This project is inspired partly by existing Sinhala and Tamil stencil lettering around us. But we built the letters of all three alphabets in thinking about the stencil structure ground up. Therefore, it is a fresh face but a readable face.

The designers of Mooniak, the collaborative collective of creatives based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, led the project.

සිංහල, දෙමළ සහ ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂා තුනේම අකුරු අැති ෆොන්ටයක් ලෙස එළිදකින ‘ස්ටික් නෝ බිල්ස්’ ගාලු කොටුවේ ස්ටික් නෝ බිල්ස් පෝස්ටර් ගැලරියේ අවශ්‍යතාව මත නිමවූ ස්ටෙන්සිල් අාකාර හැඩහුරුකම් ගත් අකුරු මෝස්තරයකි.

ස්ටික් නෝ බිල්ස් පැහැ අන්තර 6කින් සමන්විත අතර කෙටි මාතෘකා සහ විවිධ ආකාරයේ පෝස්ටර් වැනි නිර්මාණ කටයුතු සඳහා වඩා ගැලපේ. ලංකාවේ දකින්නට ලැබෙන විවිධ ස්ටෙන්සිල් ආකාරයේ අකුරු රටාවලින් අභාෂය ලබමින් මෙය නිර්මාණය කෙරිණි. මුල් ලතින් ලොකු අකුරු සහ ඉලක්කම් මෝස්තරය ශිල්පි මාටින් හොජස් මහතාගේ නිමැවුමක් වන අතර පසුව එක් කරන ලද ලතින් කුඩා අකුරු සහ සිංහල දෙමළ අකුරු මෝස්තර මූූනියැක් නිමැවුමකි.

මූනියැක්, නිර්මාණවේදීන්ගේ සහයෝගීත්ව සාමූහිකය, වඩාත් දියුණු ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය ජාතියක් උදෙසා නිර්මාණවේදයේ උපයෝගීතාවයන් සොයන තරුණ ක්‍රියාකාරිකයන් සමූහයකි.

"ஸ்டிக் நோ பில்ஸ்" என்ற பெயரில் வெளியிடப்படும் இந்த எழுத்துரு, காலி கோட்டையிலுள்ள "ஸ்டிக் நோ பில்ஸ்" கலாபவனத்தின் தேவையின் நிமித்தம் உருவாக்கப்பட்டதாகும். இது தமிழ், சிங்களம் மற்றும் ஆங்கிலம் ஆகிய மூன்று மொழிகளின் எழுத்துக்களைக் கொண்ட நிலையில் வடிவமைப்புச் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ள ஸ்டென்சில் வகையைச் சார்ந்த எழுத்துருவாகும்.

வித்தியாசமான 6 அளவுநிலைகளில் "ஸ்டிக் நோ பில்ஸ்" எழுத்துரு கிடைப்பதோடு, இதனை சிறு தலைப்பு முதற்கொண்டு, பல்வேறுபட்ட சுவரொட்டி வடிவமைப்புகளுக்காக உபயோகிக்க முடியும். இலங்கையில் பல்வேறு பகுதிகளில் காணப்படுகின்ற ஸ்டென்சில் வகையான எழுத்துரு மாதிரிகளை அடிப்படையாகக் கொண்டு, இந்த எழுத்துருவின் உருவாக்கம் சாத்தியமாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. மார்டின் ஹஜஸ் என்ற வடிவமைப்பாளரால் இந்த எழுத்துருவின் லத்தின் மொழியின் ஆரம்ப நிலை வடிவமைப்புகள் மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்டன. பின்னர் மூனியெக் நிறுவனத்தின் மூலம் மெருகேற்றப்பட்டு, தமிழ் மற்றும் சிங்களம் ஆகிய மொழிகளின் எழுத்துருக்கள் சேர்க்கப்பட்டன.

மூனியெக், இலங்கையில் கொழும்பை மையமாகக் கொண்டியங்கும் ஆக்கபூர்வமான வடிவமைப்பாளர்களின் குழுநிலை முயற்சியின் மூலம் தோன்றிய நிறுவனமாகும்.

See the web specimen page here. See /documentation for notes information on development of the project. Report any issues or bugs in issues.

Repository Structure

This repo is the active devleopment repo of the project. So files move here and the sometimes. See live testing page to see work in progress.

• See Realases to Download released clean font versions, sources and specimens at the relase point.

• /sources/ contains dirty and incomplete .ufo files which opens in all major font editors. These files are generated in intervals in between development. See Realases for clean sources.

• See /documentation for screenshots, correspondence and test documents.

How To Build

TODO

Credits

Special thanks to STICK NO BILLS Gallery and Stick No Bills co-founder/directors, Meg and Philip James Baber for their interest in making this font open and free for all. See CONTRIBUTORS.md for details on contributions.

• Martyn Hodges
• Kosala Senevirathne (@kosalaya)
• Lasantha Premarathne (@lazpremarathna)
• Siva Puranthara
• Tharique Azeez (@enathu)
• Ayantha Randika (@paarandika)
• Pathum Egodawatta(@pathumego)

License

Stick No Bills Font is released under the SIL Open Font License

For information on what you're allowed to change or modify, consult the OFL-1.1.txt and OFL-FAQ.txt files. The OFL-FAQ also gives a very general rationale and various recommendations regarding why you would want to contribute to the project or make your own version of the font.