Ekanayaka explains that publishing software not fully supporting Sinhala is an impediment, especially towards adherence to the Unicode standard. Ekanayaka set up the Company “The FontMaster”, through which he continued to design and develop Sinhala fonts. Ekanayaka gave this font to ICTA, to be given freely to users. One such font that he designed is the MalithiWeb, a light font mainly intended to be used in websites. Ekanayake later developed fonts compliant to the international encoding standard Unicode. Consequently, he designed and developed 12 Sinhala fonts of different designs. Thereafter, it was necessary to design and develop Sinhala fonts of various styles intended for different purposes. Ekanayake designed the hugely popular Sinhala ASCII font FM Abhaya.
There was a necessity for a text font and consequently Mr. Ekanayaka released 10 fonts which he had developed, but these did not include a text typeface font.
Pushpananda Ekanayaka has been designing letters of the Sinhala script, in different shapes from the time he was a young child.
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