Welcome to our comprehensive collection of premium Tamil fonts. We offer an extensive selection of Unicode, ANSI, and Google Tamil web fonts that you can download and install on your desktop and mobile devices completely free of charge. The Tamil script, encoded in the Unicode Standard [1], represents one of the world's oldest living languages. Below, we present our carefully curated selection of the most popular and versatile fonts for displaying and typing Tamil scripts across all platforms.
We provide the finest Unicode Tamil fonts designed for seamless typing in both Latin and Tamil scripts. The encoding of Tamil in Unicode was originally based on ISCII (1988) [2], making these fonts the industry standard for displaying Tamil text across modern computer systems and web browsers. Unicode Tamil fonts ensure perfect compatibility and consistent rendering across all platforms.
Our collection includes legacy ANSI Tamil fonts that remain widely used in various applications. Once downloaded and installed, you can begin typing in Tamil immediately using these time-tested encoding systems. Whilst Unicode is the modern standard, ANSI fonts continue to serve specific legacy software requirements.
Google Fonts provides premium web font families [5] that can be seamlessly integrated into websites by adding CSS or JavaScript to your source code. These fonts are optimised for web performance and support both Tamil and Latin scripts. Click the links below to access Google's font repository, where you can download or embed these professional typefaces directly into your projects.
→ Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the C:\Windows\Fonts
directory.
→ Next, open the Control Panel
, click on "Fonts", then choose "Install New Font". Browse to the folder where you downloaded and extracted the Tamil font files.
→ Select all the Tamil fonts and click "OK" to install them.
→ Once installed, you should be able to use the Tamil fonts in Microsoft Word or in any other text-editing program.
→ If the fonts do not appear right away, try restarting your computer to apply the changes.
Both ANSI and UTF-8 are encoding formats. ANSI is a Microsoft-related standard for characters and is mainly used to encode Latin alphabets. UTF-8, on the other hand, is one of the implementations of Unicode and supports more than 128,000 characters.
Unicode is a universal character encoding standard. It defines how Tamil characters, along with characters from many other languages, are represented in web pages, text files, and documents.
There are different types of Unicode encoding, with UTF-8 and UTF-16 being the most common. UTF-8 is the most widely used on the web and is the default encoding standard in many software programs for Tamil text.
UTF-8 Unicode encoding can use up to four bytes to represent characters. For English characters, UTF-8 uses only one byte. European (Latin), Hebrew, and Arabic characters are typically represented with two bytes. Tamil characters and many other Asian scripts usually require three bytes. Some special characters may even require four bytes.
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