Tamil Unicode fonts - free downloads
aAvarangal (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 pairsSupport: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
Aks Tamil Cheran(aksCheran.ttf) Source: Installed with the free edition of Aksharamala 2004. Requires registration. Stats: Version 1.00 has 293 glyphs and 2 kerning pairsSupport: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
Akshar Unicode (Akshar.ttf) Source: Free download from Kamban Software. Stats: Version 0.07 December 23, 2004 has 1,751 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Devanagari, Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Kannada, Malayalam (old style), Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu
Arial Unicode MS (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 pairsSupport: 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 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 (code2000.ttf) Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage. Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairsSupport: 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 (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 pairsSupport: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
Free Serif (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 pairsSupport: 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 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 (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 pairsSupport: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
Latha (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 pairsSupport: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
Lohit Tamil(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 pairsSupport: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
RaghuTamil (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 pairsSupport: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
SamyakSans (SamyakSans.ttf) Source: Free download from gnowledge.org. Stats: Version 1.0 has 2,045 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Bengali, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil
Saraswati5 (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 pairsSupport: Latin
SooriyanDotCom (SooriyanDotCom.ttf) Source: Free download from Sooriyan.com. Stats: Version 1.00 March 19, 2004 has 288 glyphs and 146 kerning pairsSupport: Tamil, Latin 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 pairsSupport: 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 pairsSupport: 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 pairsSupport: 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 pairsSupport: 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 pairsSupport: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
TheneeUni (TheneeUni.TTF) Source: Free download from csd_one. Stats: Version 3.001 has 261 glyphs and 37 kerning pairsSupport: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
TSCuthamba (TSCuthamba.ttf) Source: Free download from http://www.chennainetwork.com/. Stats: Version 1.00 Sept 5, 2003 has 239 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Tamil OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
TSCu_Comic (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 pairsSupport: Tamil, Latin; Tamil characters also mapped to some codepoints outside of the Basic Latin and Tamil blocks. OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
TSCu_Paranar (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 pairsSupport: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
TSCu_Times (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 pairsSupport: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
VaigaiUni (VaigaiUni.TTF) Source: Free download from csd_one. Stats: Version 1.00 January 12 2004 has 228 glyphs and 15 kerning pairsSupport: Tamil, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
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