Version history:
Please typeset Tamil in Tiro Tamil Regular:
Brill 11 pt ~ Tiro Tamil RegularĀ 9,5 pt
Brill 10 pt ~ Tiro Tamil Regular 8,7 pt
Brill 9 pt ~ Tiro Tamil Regular 8,2 pt
- Hyphenation can be after any consonant, but not after a virama/pulli.
- Italics do not occur in Tamil; for emphasis use color.
Tiro Tamil is part of the Tiro Indic Collection, designed by Tiro Typeworks for the Murty Classical Library of India. The typeface is freely downloadable from Google fonts and provided under the Open Font License. It can be recommended to authors as input font as well. The font can be downloaded from Google Fonts. Please always check Google fonts on GitHub (Tiro Tamil) if there are any updates of the typeface.
In order to trigger the Tamil web fonts in HTML, please have Tamil text tagged as ta-Tamil in the XML.