Tamil Unicode Fonts (original) (raw)

aAvarangal [ show all samples ] (aava1.ttf)
Source: Free download from Jainworld TAMIL. Look for "please Click Here to download the font".
Stats: Version 2.3 2000 has 548 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Tamil, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

Aks Tamil Cheran [ show all samples ] (aksCheran.ttf)
Source: Installed with the free edition of Aksharamala 2004. Requires registration.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 293 glyphs and 2 kerning pairs
Support: Tamil, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

Akshar Unicode [ show all samples ] (Akshar.ttf)
Source: Free download from Kamban Software.
Stats: Version 0.07 December 23, 2004 has 1,751 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Devanagari, Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Kannada, Malayalam (old style), Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu

Arial Unicode MS [ show all samples ] (arialuni.ttf)
Source: Comes with Microsoft's Office 2000, FrontPage 2000, Office XP and Publisher 2002.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 50,377 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Balochi, Persian, Shahmukhi, Urdu), Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Kannada, Korean (Hangul only), Latin, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Farsi, Urdu), Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic (default, Japanese, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional), Kana (default, Japanese), Kannada, Korean, Tamil

ArulMathiUnicode [ show all samples ]
Note: This font works only with Murasu Anjal software - it is not a general use Unicode font - no .ttf / .otf file will be installed.
Source: Free download of unifp.exe from the Murasu Anjal User forum (after you sign up)
Support: n/a

Code2000 [ show all samples ] (code2000.ttf)
Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage.
Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai

ETTamilNew [ show all samples ] (ETTamilNew.ttf from TamilFiles.zip)
Source: Free download from Ernst Tremel. (Click "Tamil" on the left to get to the download page.)
Stats: Version 1.000... has 289 glyphs and 4 kerning pairs
Support: Tamil
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

Free Serif [ show all samples ] (FreeSerif.ttf, FreeSerifBold.ttf, FreeSerifItalic.ttf, and FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz)
Note: Bold and italic styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font.
Source: Free download from Savannah.
Stats: Version 1.52 has 3,914 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Malayalam, Tamil, Thaana, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Latin, Malayalam (traditional), Tamil

InaiKathir_Unicode and InaiMathi_Unicode [ show all samples ]
Note: These fonts work only with Murasu Anjal software - they are not general use Unicode fonts - no .ttf / .otf files will be installed.
Source: Free download of unifp.exe from the Murasu Anjal User forum (after you sign up)
Support: n/a

JanaTamil [ show all samples ] (RRJanaTamil.TTF from JanaTamil.zip)
Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.
Stats: Version 0.99.1 July 2004 has 205 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Tamil
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

Latha [ show all samples ] (latha.ttf)
Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000. Also available from devanaagarii.net.
Stats: Version 1.21 has 193 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Tamil
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

Lohit Tamil [ show all samples ] (lohit_ta.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz)
Source: Free download from Ubuntu.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 287 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Tamil
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

RaghuTamil [ show all samples ] (RRRaghuTamil_ship.ttf)
Source: Free download from IndiX: Indian Language support for the Linux Operating System.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 205 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Tamil
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

SamyakSans [ show all samples ] (SamyakSans.ttf)
Source: Free download from gnowledge.org.
Stats: Version 1.0 has 2,045 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil

Saraswati5 [ show all samples ] (SaraswatiNormal.ttf and SaraswatiBold.ttf)
Note: This font does not have the OpenType tables necessary for Tamil.
Source: Free download from Sun Microsystems (after registration).
Stats: Version 1/17/03 has 1,803 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Latin

SooriyanDotCom [ show all samples ] (SooriyanDotCom.ttf)
Source: Free download from Sooriyan.com.
Stats: Version 1.00 March 19, 2004 has 288 glyphs and 146 kerning pairs
Support: Tamil, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

Swaminatha [ show all samples ] (swaminatha.ttf)
Source: Free download from the Flowers of Devotion page.
Stats: Version 1.0 has 152 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Tamil
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

TAMu_Kadambri [ show all samples ] (TAMu_Kadampari.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz)
Source: Free download from Ubuntu.
Stats: Version 20th Nov 1999 has 221 glyphs and 113 kerning pairs
Support: Tamil (Tamil characters also mapped to Latin codepoints)
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

TAMu_Kalyani [ show all samples ] (TAMu_Kalyani.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz)
Source: Free download from Ubuntu.
Stats: Version 19th Nov 1999 has 227 glyphs and 113 kerning pairs
Support: Tamil (Tamil characters also mapped to Latin codepoints)
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

TAMu_Maduram [ show all samples ] (TAMu_Maduram.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz)
Source: Free download from Ubuntu.
Stats: Version 1.00 19/11/1999 has 223 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Tamil (Tamil characters also mapped to Latin codepoints)
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

TAU_1_ELANGO_Barathi [ show all samples ] (tau1_bar.ttf)
Source: Free download from Cadgraf Digitals. Click the "Free Download" button and pick "TAU_ELANGO_Barathi". Note that the TAB... and TAM... fonts are not Unicode.
Stats: Version 1 has 239 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Tamil
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

ThendralUni [ show all samples ] (ThendralUni.ttf)
Source: Free download from csd_one.
Stats: Version 1.0 May 2003 has 231 glyphs and 2 kerning pairs
Support: Tamil, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

TheneeUni [ show all samples ] (TheneeUni.TTF)
Source: Free download from csd_one.
Stats: Version 3.001 has 261 glyphs and 37 kerning pairs
Support: Tamil, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

TSCuthamba [ show all samples ] (TSCuthamba.ttf)
Source: Free download from www.chennainetwork.com.
Stats: Version 1.00 Sept 5, 2003 has 239 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Tamil
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

TSCu_Comic [ show all samples ] (TSCuComic.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz)
Source: Free download from Ubuntu.
Stats: Version 1.00 Sep 06 1999 has 230 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Tamil, Latin; Tamil characters also mapped to some codepoints outside of the Basic Latin and Tamil blocks.
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

TSCu_Paranar [ show all samples ] (TSCu_Paranar.ttf [regular], TSCu_Paranarb.ttf [bold], and TSCu_Paranai.ttf [italic] from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz)
Source: Free download from Ubuntu.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 225 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Tamil, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

TSCu_Times [ show all samples ] (TSCu_Times.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz)
Source: Free download from Ubuntu.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 231 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Tamil, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil

VaigaiUni [ show all samples ] (VaigaiUni.TTF)
Source: Free download from csd_one.
Stats: Version 1.00 January 12 2004 has 228 glyphs and 15 kerning pairs
Support: Tamil, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil