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Tiro Tamil

Tiro Typeworks · Fernando Mello, Fiona Ross, Kaja Słojewska

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Tiro Tamil specimen from Tiro Typeworks

A two-style Tamil text typeface by Fernando Mello and Fiona Ross, available free via Tiro Typeworks and GitHub.

About

Designed by Fernando Mello and Fiona Ross, with italic adaptation by Kaja Słojewska, Tiro Tamil provides Regular and Italic styles covering the Tamil script alongside an extended Latin character set. The family is released free and is maintained as an open-source repository on GitHub, making it accessible for scholarly, publishing and digital use. Its extended Latin coverage includes a range of diacritics suited to transliteration and academic contexts.

Classification

Tiro Tamil is a text typeface designed primarily for the Tamil script, with accompanying Latin support. Its serif structure is suited to extended reading at text sizes.

Weights

Regular

Languages

TamilLatin Extended

Tags

tamilmultilingualtextscholarlyopen-sourcesouth-asian