Tam Elango Abirami Font -

Tamil scripts have tall ascenders and descenders. Set line-height to at least 1.6 for body text.

, a Chennai-based firm that became a pioneer in Tamil desktop publishing (DTP). At the time, computers didn't have built-in support for Tamil script. Designers and developers had to create custom "legacy" fonts that mapped Tamil characters to the English keys on a keyboard. The series was named "Elango" likely in honor of Elango Adigal , the legendary author of the Tamil epic Silappathikaram tam elango abirami font