You can incorporate strikethrough text into social media posts or captions, infusing written content with a distinctive and attention-grabbing aesthetic. To incorporate strikethrough text in social media, our strikethrough text generator utilizes Unicode, enabling copy-and-pasting anywhere on the web. While the crossed out text generated by YayText may look similar to text generated using the HTML tag or the CSS attribute text-decoration: line-through, it isn't. In modern times, the use of a strikethrough font remains significant, allowing writers to express irony, present alternative perspectives, or indicate discontinued information. The strikethrough effect adds contrast and depth to the message, emphasizing modified or substituted content. The name ‘Abhaya’ comes after the King Abhaya (474 BCE to 454 BCE) who reigned Sri Lanka from the ancient kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara.Strikethrough text has its origins in typewriters and handwritten editing, serving as a practical solution for denoting crossed-out or deleted content without rewriting. Large counters have been added along with small ascenders and descenders for optimized screen viewing. The ductus references according to the lines of a Didone typeface add a touch of Sinhala form to certain terminations. The Latin characters, that match the aesthetics of ‘Abhaya Libre Sinhala’, which was inspired by the style of the original Sinhala with an eminent contrast between distinctive strokes that go from thick to thin and was further modified to co-exist with the visual logics of Latin typefaces. Driven by rigorous research and community contributions, Abhaya Libre includes an extensive set of ligatures, alternates, stylistic alternates, historical ligatures and Opentype features to support proper representation of text in Sinhala, Pali and Sanskrit langauges.

FM Abhaya font which had a limited glyphs set in ASCII encoding was redrawn and expanded into a family with five weights and more glyphs. The roots of this style relates to the modulation structure and aesthetics introduced to Sinhala script by the N J Cooray of the Cooray Type Foundry in the late 1800s. The drawings for the original FM Abhaya was based on the common text typeface used by the Department of Government Printing in the 1970s-1990s. The project started off with the aim of liberating (open sourcing) FM Abhaya, the most popular Sinhala legacy-format-text-font by Pushpanada Ekanayake. In the true spirit of Libre Fonts movement Abhaya Libre project brought together existing projects and a group of designers to develop a coherent typeface.

Abhaya Libre is a text typeface designed for communications in Sinhala, Tamil and Latin scripts.Ībhaya Libre project aims to produce the most advanced and complete Sinhala font with coverage for complex representations in Sinhala, Pali and Sanskrit texts.

Sinhala script fonts