Script: Taml

Family: Indic

Type: abugida

Whitespace: between words

Open Type Tag: none

Complex Positioning: yes

Unicode: true

Diacritics: true

Contextual Forms: true

Reordering: true

Split Graphs: true

Status: Current

Baseline: bottom

Ligatures: required

Direction: ltr

Direction Notes: LTR (left-to-right)

Unicode Chart: PDF

The Tamil script, also called tamiz ezuttu, is used for writing the Tamil language, a Dravidian language spoken by over 65,500,000 people in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia and Mauritius. Tamil is an official language in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu as well as in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. The script is derived from Brahmi, so is related to many of the scripts used for writing Indian Indo-Aryan languages, to which the Tamil language itself is unrelated.

Tamil is written from left to right using an abugida containing eighteen consonants, or meyyeḻuttu \\body letters\”

Fonts

Noto Sans Tamil — Google Fonts
Noto Serif Tamil — Google Fonts
Hind Madurai — Google Fonts
Baloo Tammudu 2 — Google Fonts

Low-Resolution Screen Fonts

Hind Madurai — Google Fonts Hind family Tamil; designed for Indian web and screen typography
IBM Plex Sans Tamil — IBM / Google Fonts Distinguishes Tamil grantha characters clearly at small sizes