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Hind Madurai is a family of five Tamil fonts, which are part of the Indian Type Foundry’s larger Open Source Hind Multi-Script project.
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Hind Multi-Script is a type system providing nine stylistically-matching font families – one for each of the following writing systems used in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Sinhala.
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In addition to Tamil, the Hind Madurai fonts also include Latin-script characters.
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Developed explicitly for use in User Interface design, Hind’s letterforms have a humanist-style construction, paired with seemingly monolinear strokes.
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Most of these strokes have flat endings: they either terminate with a horizontal or a vertical shear, rather than on a diagonal.
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This helps create clear-cut counter forms between the characters.
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Additionally, Hind’s letterforms feature open apertures and counterforms.
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The entire family feels very legible when used to set text.
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The Tamil and Latin script components are scaled in relation to each other so that the head of the Tamil characters falls just below the Latin capital-height.
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Depending in the font weight, Tamil letters appear to be about 80–85% of the height of the Latin uppercase.
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Text set in the Tamil script sits nicely alongside the Latin’s lowercase, too.
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Although Hind Madurai is a “monolinear sans” face, much of its design features tends toward the traditional end of the design spectrum.
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Each font in the Hind Madurai family has 552 glyphs, which includes all of the characters needed to write Tamil.
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The Latin character set is Adobe Latin 3, enabling typesetting for English and other Western European languages.
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Hind Madurai is a solid alternate when choosing typefaces for UI design, and a wise selection for electronic display embedding.
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Jyotish Sonowal designed Hind Madurai for ITF, who first published the fonts in 2015.
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Hind Madurai is named after Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu, India.
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The Hind Madurai project is led by Indian Type Foundry, a type design foundry based in Ahmedabad, India.
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To contribute, see <a href="https://github.com/itfoundry/hind-madurai">github.com/itfoundry/hind-madurai</a>
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