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Peridot Tamil

Foundry Five · Pria Ravichandran, Kostas Bartsokas · 2026

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Peridot Tamil specimen from Foundry Five

A 20-style Tamil and Latin sans serif system with variable support, covering 314 languages across 10 weights and six widths.

About

Designed by Pria Ravichandran with Latin contributions from Kostas Bartsokas, Peridot Tamil pairs Tamil and Latin scripts in a single cohesive system. The family spans 10 weights with matching italics, six width variants and full variable format support, making it suitable for branding, editorial, advertising and screen work. It was awarded the EBGE Original Typeface award at the Greek Communication Design Awards 2023 and an Award of Excellence at Communication Arts Typography Competition 2024.

Classification

A multi-script sans serif system with humanist proportions, designed to function across Tamil and Latin scripts with extensive weight and width range. The Tamil script was designed specifically by Pria Ravichandran.

Weights

ThinExtraLightLightRegularMediumSemiBoldBoldExtraBoldHeavyBlack

Optical sizes and widths

6 widths

Languages

TamilLatin

Tags

tamilmulti-scriptvariablesans-serifeditorialbrandingmultilingualaward-winning