Maname
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
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1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/maname 2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Maname", serif;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* Please select at least one weight and style */ Background & Story
Maname is a text typeface made for Sinhala script with quirky stroke modulation. Maname Latin is informed by the modulation of Sinhala companion and takes a versatile lively form.
This project was orignally conceptualised and prototyped by Pathum Egodawatta as a superfamily with many styles and scripts in partial fulfilment for the requirements for the Master of Arts in Typeface Design (MATD) at the University of Reading, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication in 2016. Since then selected Latin and Sinhala components from the academic project were extended to include support for wider Latin character set and full Sinhala support under the name Maname.
To contribute, please see github.com/mooniak/maname-font.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource/maname Designed by
Pathum Egodawatta, Mooniak
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License
OFL-1.1