Noto Sans Tamil is an unmodulated (“sans serif”) design for texts in the Indic Tamil script.
Noto Sans Tamil has multiple weights and widths, contains 244 glyphs, 11 OpenType features, and supports 147 characters from 5 Unicode blocks: Tamil, Basic Latin, General Punctuation, Devanagari, Grantha.
Tamil (தமிழ்) is an Indic abugida, written left-to-right (70 million users). Used in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia and Mauritius for the Tamil language, and other languages like Irula, Badaga, Kurumba, Paniya, Saurashtra. Has 18 consonants (modest set for Brahmic scripts) and 12 vowels. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on ScriptSource, Unicode, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, r12a.