Noto Sans Malayalam is an unmodulated (“sans serif”) design for texts in the Indic Malayalam script.
Noto Sans Malayalam has multiple weights and widths, contains 364 glyphs, 10 OpenType features, and supports 187 characters from 4 Unicode blocks: Malayalam, Basic Latin, General Punctuation, Devanagari.
Malayalam (മലയാളം) is an Indic abugida, written left-to-right (38 million users). Used since c. 830 CE in India for Malayalam (official language of the Kerala state), Irula, Paniya and some other languages. Derived from the a Vatteluttu alphabet. Has 15 vowel letters, 42 consonant letters, and a few other symbols. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on ScriptSource, Unicode, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, r12a.