Tiro Tamil
Designed by Tiro Typeworks, Fernando Mello, Fiona Ross, Kaja Słojewska. 2 styles · serif
Regular · 400
யாதும் ஊரே யாவரும் கேளிர்
Italic · 400
யாதும் ஊரே யாவரும் கேளிர்
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About Tiro Tamil
Tiro Tamil draws on the metal types cut in Madras — now Chennai — in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which themselves echoed palm-leaf manuscripts and the handwriting of the day. It was first made for the Murty Classical Library of India.
Its stroke modulation gives Tamil a lively, bookish rhythm, and traditional ligature forms can be switched on through OpenType features. The release includes an italic for the slanted style of traditional Tamil typography, and a Latin set with diacritics for transliteration.
Choose it for literature, classical poetry, scholarship and print. For screens and interfaces, Catamaran or Mukta Malar are the simpler choices.
Licence
Tiro Tamil 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.