Catamaran
Designed by Pria Ravichandran. 1 style · sans
Regular · 400
யாதும் ஊரே யாவரும் கேளிர்
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About Catamaran
Catamaran is a Tamil and Latin sans by Pria Ravichandran, named after the twin-hulled boat that South Indian fishermen used long before it reached Western boatyards. The Tamil is monolinear and was drawn alongside the Palanquin family, so the two scripts share a calm, modern texture.
Nine weights, from Thin to Black, in one variable file make it one of the most complete Tamil families available — enough to build a full hierarchy of headings, body and captions from one design.
Use it for Tamil websites, apps, reports and signage. The light weights are elegant at large sizes; for small text, stay at Regular or heavier.
Licence
Catamaran is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which permits use in personal and commercial work. Read the licence before redistributing the files or selling them on.
Installing it
- Windows.
- Right-click the downloaded file and choose Install, or drop it into Settings → Personalisation → Fonts.
- macOS.
- Double-click the file and press Install Font in Font Book.
- On the web.
- Self-host the WOFF2 and declare it with an
@font-facerule rather than linking to this page. - Tamil text.
- Tamil needs a text engine that places vowel signs, some of which sit before their consonant. Word and current browsers handle it. In Photoshop, switch to the Middle Eastern and South Asian text engine under Preferences → Type.