OPEN-SOURCE SKILLS / BURMESE TYPOGRAPHY
KUMIHAN｜ဟန်ချက် is a set of open-source AI skills for creating and reviewing Burmese websites, articles, reports, and presentations—with care for readability, layout, and the integrity of your original content.
Every brief, audience, and message is different. KUMIHAN｜ဟန်ချက် helps AI shape typography, spacing, and hierarchy around the meaning and priorities of each piece—rather than applying one template to everything. In Burmese, that starts by asking whether a text is to be read as continuous prose, used in an interface, or shown as a headline or lettering—and whether a spoken or literary style suits its purpose.
Practical priorities for creating and reviewing Burmese content.
Myanmar script is also used for Mon, Shan, the Karen languages and Pali, so language (my) and script (Mymr) are recorded separately, and Unicode is never confused with Zawgyi—swapping the font does not fix it. Kinzi, stacked consonants, medials and vowel signs stay in logical order while the shaper places them; no spans, colour changes or tracking go inside a cluster.
Shape the layout around the information, its priority, and the reader’s goal. Body text, interface labels, headlines and lettering are designed as different roles. Spaces in Burmese mark phrases, not every word, so lines break at meaningful phrases—not with a blanket break-all or a zero-width space after every syllable—and the heading-to-body ratio changes with screen width.
Protect names, quotations, numbers, dates, codes and intended meaning. The original Unicode text, the punctuation marks ၊ and ။, Myanmar digits and look-alikes such as the letter ဝ (wa) and the digit ၀ (zero) stay as written. Converting from Zawgyi, switching between spoken and literary style and shortening copy are edits: offered as proposals with their basis, never made silently.
Check finished work and organize issues—without touching the files. Size is judged by measured extent, not point size—in the research, the base letter က set at the same size in four typefaces measured 0.463–0.640 em high—and clipped marks above and below, copying and PDF text extraction are checked separately.
DESIGNED FOR THE MESSAGE
KUMIHAN｜ဟန်ချက် doesn't dictate a finished look. It gives AI the knowledge to adapt to each medium and brief. Burmese design is not a fixed set of circles, temples and gold, and Burmese letterforms are not all round. Typefaces are compared by file version, character coverage, shaping and licence—Padauk 6.000, for example, dropped Graphite, so older setup advice no longer applies.
From scoping the work to web, documents, and review.
Scope purpose, audience, medium, text role (body, UI, headline or lettering), spoken or literary style, encoding (Unicode or Zawgyi) and authorized edits before designing.
Typography and design for Burmese websites, articles, landing pages, and UI, with guidance on line height for marks above and below, line breaks by phrase and correct language tagging.
Structure and readability for reports, business documents, and slide decks, with guidance on font versions, mixing Burmese, English and numerals, and PDF copying and text extraction.
Review typography, information, and layout without editing source files.
Setup varies by tool. Pick the guide for yours, then choose the skills you need.
v0.1.0 contains 20 rules, four skills and 15 versioned archives (published in the repository; no GitHub Release yet). Native proofreading, live rendering and AI host installation remain unverified.
KUMIHAN｜ဟန်ချက် is open source. The skills, releases, and full change history are on GitHub.