Font Licences & Credits

1. About this page

The typefaces below are the work of the designers and organisations named beside them. We use each one under the licence it was released with, and we credit them here because several of those licences require it. Nothing on this page transfers any right in a font to you.

2. Bharathi Azhagu Tamil Unicode fonts (ATM)

Bharathi Azhagu Tamil Unicode Fonts © 2019 by Ra. Duraipandian, Ka. Nagarajan [Bharathi Puthakaalayam] & Chalkpiece Foundation is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The collection contains 808 typefaces in 2,102 files, released in 2019 after three years of work and given to the Tamil community. The full set is distributed by the Tamil Virtual Academy.

The fonts are included in Poster Kaaran unmodified. Some are stored under different file names inside the app, but the font software itself is unchanged. Under CC BY-SA 4.0 you are free to copy and redistribute these fonts, and to adapt them, provided you credit the creators as above and license any adapted font under the same terms.

Posters you export are not adaptations of the fonts. Setting text in a typeface does not make the resulting image a derivative work of the font, so the ShareAlike condition does not attach to anything you create with Poster Kaaran.

3. SIL Open Font License 1.1

Used under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

• Uni Ila.Sundaram — Dr. Ila Sundaram, Chennai, 2013.
• Kavivanar — Tharique Azeez.
• Meera Tamil — Hussain K.H, Santhosh Thottingal, Anilan NG and AKM Kutty.

4. GNU General Public License

Used under the GNU General Public License, released through ICTA Sri Lanka.

• Chemmozhi Paranar — R. Kalaimani.
• Chemmozhi Comic — Thukaram Gopalrao.

5. Panacea Dreamweavers typefaces

The TAB and TAM Unicode faces were developed by Panacea Dreamweavers Software Private Limited and released under a copyleft notice permitting free use, modification and distribution. Unicode conversions by Gopi, and by Selva Murali of Visualmedia Technologies for the uniAmma series.

6. Government of Tamil Nadu and Tamil Virtual Academy

• TAU-Barathi — developed by Modular Infotech Pvt. Ltd., Pune, for the Government of Tamil Nadu through the Tamil Virtual Academy, for free distribution.
• TAU-Marutham — Tamil Virtual Academy, Chennai, designed by N.S. Nana (NS. Narayanan), released under TVA order no. 10336/20/12/2016.
• TAU_Elango series — built by CADGRAF Computers and released free to the public through the Tamil Virtual Academy and the Government of Tamil Nadu.

7. Fonts you add yourself

Poster Kaaran lets you load fonts from your own device. You are responsible for holding the right to use any font you add, and for anything you create with it. We do not review, store or redistribute fonts you supply.

8. Posters you create

You may use the posters you export for personal or commercial purposes. That covers the finished image. It does not give you any right in the fonts, stickers or template artwork themselves, which may not be extracted, redistributed or resold as standalone files.