Maldives' first and only dedicated font studio

Dhivehi font design, engineered for Thaana.

A desktop font design and font engineering environment with first-class Dhivehi / Thaana RTL workflows - from outlines and spacing to kerning, fili attachment, OpenType shaping, proofing and TTF / OTF export.

Native Thaana RTLBezier + Power BrushGSUB / GPOSTTF + OTF
Dhivehi Font Studio start screen
DrawingBezier, pencil, brush, cutouts, components
Thaana EngineeringRTL kerning, fili, anchors, ligatures
TestingProofing, live compile, QA and font testing
OutputTrueType TTF and CFF OpenType OTF
Complete workflow

One studio for real Thaana font work.

Built around the way Dhivehi type actually behaves - not a Latin-first editor with Thaana added later.

01

Glyph drawing & editing

Bezier paths, direct node editing, freehand pencil, Power Brush presets, cutouts, shapes, eraser, knife, components, transforms and vector cleanup.

02

Spacing & metrics

Advance width, LSB / RSB, font-wide metrics, Thaana metrics, guides, measurement tools and repeated RTL spacing preview.

03

RTL kerning

Logical and visual pair review, independent reverse pairs, automatic starting values, multi-pair editing and GPOS kerning designed to work across fili marks.

04

Fili & anchors

Top / bottom anchor systems, Fili Matrix diagnostics, Fili Manager alignment tools and Anchor Manager controls for reliable mark-to-base attachment.

05

OpenType & ligatures

Thaana-oriented GSUB / GPOS engineering with liga, rlig, ccmp, kern and mark workflows, including ligatures created from real text selections.

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Proofing & export

Live compiled testing, small-size proofing, raster comparisons, feature toggles, font health checks, validation and native TTF / OTF export.

RTL pair engineering

Kerning that understands Thaana order.

The pair system distinguishes logical OpenType order from visual RTL order, keeps reverse pairs independent and uses IgnoreMarks-aware GPOS so base-to-base spacing can continue across combining fili.

Logical First → Second pair model Visual RTL pair preview Auto Kern All / selected pairs Live preview across full sample strings
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Dhivehi Font Studio kerning workspace
Script-specific systems

Fili, anchors and ligatures are first-class tools.

The studio exposes the relationships that matter in Thaana instead of hiding them behind generic font-editor panels.

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Fili Matrix

Review bases against top and bottom fili with attachment and gap diagnostics, missing-anchor warnings and shared-level tools.

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Anchor Manager

Manage top, bottom, _top and _bottom anchors while preserving per-glyph X positions and manual overrides.

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Ligature system

Create and engineer base or exact-mark ligatures, keep source references visible and compile substitutions for robust Thaana shaping.

Dhivehi Font Studio export dialog
Professional output

Compile, validate and export real font binaries.

Export TrueType TTF or real CFF OpenType OTF from the live project, including available GDEF, GPOS, GSUB, cmap, hmtx, name and OS/2 data.

TTFTrueType quadratic outlines
OTFReal CFF OpenType cubic outlines
Layoutmark, kern, liga / rlig / ccmp
ValidationGlyph-level checks before export