Open Source · Typography
Terma Foundry
termaUI
Render beautiful Tibetan typography without ever leaving your HTML. A utility-first CSS framework packed with classes like tr-jomolhari, tr-guard, and tr-text-rainbow — composed directly in your markup.
36
Tibetan Typefaces
6
CSS Utility Modules
1
Stylesheet to Import
0
Build Tools Required
What it is
termaUI puts Tibetan typography on equal footing with the rest of the web — one class per typeface, one class per effect, one class to fix every rendering bug the browser throws at Tibetan script.
Zero Config
Import one stylesheet. Add lang="bo" and a class. That's the entire API.
<!-- 1. Add the stylesheet -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="termaui.css">
<!-- 2. Use lang="bo" + termaUI classes -->
<h1 class="tr-jomolhari tr-text-rainbow tr-guard"
lang="bo">
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།
</h1>6 Utility Modules
One class per typeface — tr-jomolhari, tr-noto, tr-machine-uni, tr-drutsa, tr-monlam and 31 more. All fonts are WOFF2-subsetted and loaded on demand via unicode-range.
Modern CSS effects tuned for Tibetan script: tr-text-rainbow, tr-shimmer (animated metallic gold sweep), tr-text-fire, and tr-glow-aurora.
Tibet's traditional long-leaf book format — title margin, body column, folio number, red rules — rendered in CSS via tr-pecha, tr-pecha-dark, and companion classes.
tr-guard prevents vowel marks and stacked consonants from clipping. tr-break enables syllable-aware line wrapping at tsheg boundaries. tr-scale-up and tr-baseline handle optical scaling and mixed-language baseline alignment.
Inline Tibetan inside English prose, bilingual nav menus, and multilingual documents — all harmonized with a single span and two classes.
Dropdown menus, nav bars, monastery site templates, and one-liners — working Tibetan UI, not screenshots.
Why it Matters
🏠 Native Comfort
People are 75% more likely to engage with content in their native script. termaUI makes Tibetan websites feel like home.
🧓 Accessible to Elders
Standard web fonts are too thin for Tibetan. tr-scale-up and tr-noto let elders read dharma teachings without straining.
✨ Professional Voice
Monasteries, artists, and small businesses can present their work with the same polish as a global brand.
🛠 End to Unicode Fighting
Developers no longer manually write complex CSS to stop vowels from clipping. Focus on features, not fonts.
📈 Faster Time to Market
Build a fully localized Tibetan app in days instead of months.
🏔 Community-Defined Aesthetics
Most languages depend on big tech to define their script's look. termaUI lets Tibetans own that definition.
Status
termaUI is a working prototype — the entire termafoundry.com site runs on it. We are actively seeking funding to bring it to full production as a single npm install.