OPEN-SOURCE SKILLS / SANSKRIT TYPOGRAPHY
KUMIHAN｜विन्यास is a set of open-source AI skills for creating and reviewing Sanskrit 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｜विन्यास helps AI shape typography, spacing, and hierarchy around the meaning and priorities of each piece—rather than applying one template to everything. In Sanskrit, that starts by asking whether a text is to be read continuously, chanted aloud, or seen as a heading or logo.
Practical priorities for creating and reviewing Sanskrit content.
Sanskrit has never been written only in Devanagari, and Devanagari on screen does not make a text Hindi, so language (sa) and script (Deva, Latn/IAST) are recorded separately. Conjuncts and pre-base vowel signs, as in कि, stay in logical order while the shaper handles the visual order; no spaces or tracking go inside clusters, and long compounds are not broken by force.
Shape the layout around the information, its priority, and the reader’s goal. Continuous reading, chanting and display—headings, logos—are designed as different ways of reading, and source, transliteration and translation are aligned by meaning rather than forced into the same number of lines.
Protect names, quotations, numbers, dates, codes and intended meaning. Conjuncts, vowel signs, IAST diacritics (ā ṛ ṣ ṃ ḥ), Vedic accent marks, danda (। ॥) and avagraha (ऽ) stay as written, and the source is kept apart from the edited text. Undoing sandhi, splitting compounds and reordering words are edits: recorded as proposals, never made silently.
Check finished work and organize issues—without touching the files. Size is judged by measured width, not point size—in the research, one word set at the same size in four typefaces differed by about 21% in width—and rendering, copying and PDF text extraction are checked separately.
DESIGNED FOR THE MESSAGE
KUMIHAN｜विन्यास doesn't dictate a finished look. It gives AI the knowledge to adapt to each medium and brief. Sanskrit has no single colour scheme and is not limited to religious use. Typefaces are compared by file version, character coverage, shaping and licence—Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit and Murty Sanskrit, though related, come under different terms.
From scoping the work to web, documents, and review.
Scope purpose, audience, medium, reading mode (prose, verse, commentary, chanting or display), script and transliteration (Devanagari, IAST) and authorized edits before designing.
Typography and design for Sanskrit websites, articles, landing pages, and UI, with guidance on line height for marks above and below, long compounds and IAST beside Devanagari.
Structure and readability for reports, business documents, and slide decks, with guidance on aligning source, transliteration and translation, font licences and PDF 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｜विन्यास is open source. The skills, releases, and full change history are on GitHub.