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Saturday, June 9, 2012

New Tamil Fonts Download


Sample of aAvarangal at 26ptaAvarangal    [ 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
Sample of Aks Tamil Cheran at 26ptAks 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
Sample of Akshar Unicode at 26ptAkshar 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
Sample of Arial Unicode MS at 28ptArial 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
unusable fontArulMathiUnicode    [ 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
Sample of Code2000 at 24ptCode2000    [ 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
Sample of ETTamilNew at 28ptETTamilNew    [ 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
Sample of Free Serif at 24ptFree 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
unusable fontInaiKathir_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
Sample of JanaTamil at 24ptJanaTamil    [ 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
Sample of Latha at 22ptLatha    [ 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
Sample of Lohit Tamil at 34ptLohit 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
Sample of RaghuTamil at 24ptRaghuTamil    [ 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
Sample of SamyakSans at 24ptSamyakSans    [ 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
unusable fontSaraswati5    [ 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
Sample of SooriyanDotCom at 26ptSooriyanDotCom    [ 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
Tamil fontSwaminatha    [ 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
Sample of TAMu_Kadambri at 36ptTAMu_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
Sample of TAMu_Kalyani at 36ptTAMu_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
Sample of TAMu_Maduram at 26ptTAMu_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
Sample of TAU_1_ELANGO_Barathi at 28ptTAU_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
Sample of ThendralUni at 26ptThendralUni    [ 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
Sample of TheneeUni at 22ptTheneeUni    [ 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
Sample of TSCuthamba at 30ptTSCuthamba    [ show all samples ]  (TSCuthamba.ttf)
Source: Free download from http://www.chennainetwork.com/.
Stats: Version 1.00 Sept 5, 2003 has 239 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Tamil
OpenType Layout Tables: Tamil
Sample of TSCu_Comic at 28ptTSCu_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
Sample of TSCu_Paranar at 30ptTSCu_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
Sample of TSCu_Times at 30ptTSCu_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
Sample of VaigaiUni at 28ptVaigaiUni    [ 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

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