OPEN-SOURCE SKILLS / TAGALOG TYPOGRAPHY
KUMIHAN｜Tugma is a set of open-source AI skills for creating and reviewing Tagalog 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｜Tugma helps AI shape typography, spacing, and hierarchy around the meaning and priorities of each piece—rather than applying one template to everything. In Tagalog, that starts by asking whether a text is to be read through, seen as a lead line or logo, or used—as a button, a price or a date.
Practical priorities for creating and reviewing Tagalog content.
Tagalog is the core of Filipino, but the two names are not interchangeable: Tugma works with an explicit tl or tl-PH and never silently substitutes fil. Modern Latin script comes first; Baybayin conversion is a separate editorial task, done only on explicit request. Ñ and Ng belong to the 28-letter alphabet, yet Ng is two characters, and accents as in tugmâ stay exactly as written.
Shape the layout around the information, its priority, and the reader’s goal. Size, measure and leading are trialled with real Tagalog copy—headings at 1.5× and 2× body size, for example—rather than borrowed from an English template. Short words such as na, pa, ba and po are never dropped to save space, and in-word hyphens as in araw-araw are kept apart from line-end hyphenation.
Protect names, quotations, numbers, dates, codes and intended meaning. Accents, ñ, in-word hyphens as in pag-ibig and the apostrophe ’ stay as written, and Taglish such as i-save is kept as a register, not treated as a failed translation. Ng/nang, din/rin and po are editorial calls: recorded as proposals, never changed silently.
Check finished work and organize issues—without touching the files. Fonts are judged by file version and actual glyphs, not by name—in the research, Noto Sans Tagalog 2.002 covered Baybayin but had no ₱, while Source Sans 3 had ₱ but no Baybayin—and 200% zoom and 320 CSS px reflow are checked separately in a real browser.
DESIGNED FOR THE MESSAGE
KUMIHAN｜Tugma doesn't dictate a finished look. It gives AI the knowledge to adapt to each medium and brief. There is no single “Filipino look”: the typefaces studied take their shapes from hand-lettered transport and market signs or the melody of the kundiman, each for a reason. Typefaces are compared by version, character coverage and licence—Kundiman, for example, is free for personal use only.
From scoping the work to web, documents, and review.
Scope purpose, audience, medium, text role (reading, display, UI or logo), an explicit tl or tl-PH, script (Latin or Baybayin), register and authorized edits before designing, then route the work to web, documents or review.
Typography and design for Tagalog websites, articles, landing pages, and UI, with guidance on Taglish, language markup, heading-to-body size trials, 200% zoom and narrow-screen reflow.
Structure and readability for reports, business documents, and slide decks, with guidance on font licences, coverage of ₱ and accented letters, contextual review of ng/nang and din/rin, and PDF text extraction.
Review typography, information, and layout without editing source files, with findings tied to rule and source IDs.
Setup varies by tool. Pick the guide for yours, then choose the skills you need.
v0.1.0 contains 31 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｜Tugma is open source. The skills, releases, and full change history are on GitHub.