Your Tamil handwriting, as a font you can type
Write the Tamil letters once on a sheet of paper. Suzhi turns them into your own font — then type in Thanglish and send letters, wishes, invitations and whole books in your own handwriting.
Free for everyone. No ads. Nothing to install.
Try writing in Thanglish nowvaNakkam
வணக்கம்
anbuLLa ammaavukku
அன்புள்ள அம்மாவுக்கு
pongal vaazhththukkaL
பொங்கல் வாழ்த்துக்கள்
Why your own font?
A photo shows a memory. Words give it a voice.
Our phones hold thousands of photos. Yet years later, what moves us is the two lines someone lovingly wrote on the back of one. A photo without words is a memory without a voice.
Your words, in your own hand — that is your signature.
Letters are the face of a language
From stone inscriptions to palm leaves to screens, Tamil has travelled with its letters. On screens today it shows up in only a handful of fonts — a wedding invitation and an electricity bill wear the same face. Every font is a voice, and Tamil deserves many.
Your hand is your voice
The tenderness in the curl of Amma's ழ, the hurry in Appa's slanted lines, the firm strokes of Thatha — one glance at handwriting and the writer is in front of you. Print can't say that.
A little warmth, every day
A birthday wish, a festival card, a recipe, a letter to a grandchild abroad — typed, yet arriving in your own hand. The reader sees you.
A memory across generations
The font you make today is a keepsake in your children's hands tomorrow. From an old letter, you can even bring back the handwriting of someone who is no longer with us.
How it works
Write one sheet
Print the sheet, write each letter with a dark pen and take a photo. Or draw on your phone's screen.
Suzhi makes your font
All 247 letters, vowel signs and joining rules, so கொ, க்ஷ and ஸ்ரீ come out right in Word, on Android and on iPhone.
Write and send
Type in Thanglish. Download a PDF, a Word file or a picture, or send it straight to WhatsApp.
Everything you can do on Suzhi
Every feature is free. Most work on a phone.
Your handwriting font
- Write on paper or on screen — Print a sheet and photograph it, or draw each letter with a finger or a stylus.
- A complete font — TTF, OTF and WOFF2 files that work in Word, on phones and on websites.
- From an old letter — Rebuild a loved one's handwriting from a photo of their letter or diary.
- Handwriting through the years — Tag each font with the age it was written at, and compare them side by side.
- Share it — Keep it private, share a link, or publish it in the gallery for others to write with.
Write
- Thanglish typing — Type vaNakkam, get வணக்கம். No Tamil keyboard needed.
- Letters, poems and stories — Verse layout, headings, lists and quotes — in your handwriting or a clear print font.
- Books — Cover, contents, chapters and Tamil page numbers (௧ ௨ ௩), as PDF or Word.
- For scholars — Footnotes, Thirukkural by number, Tamil numerals and a link to the Nigandu dictionary.
- Send anywhere — PDF, Word, print, or a link that opens as pages in your handwriting.
Cards and invitations
- 259 designs — Pongal, Deepavali, Tamil New Year, weddings, birthdays, inland letters and postcards — drawn new for Suzhi.
- Many hands on one card — A wedding invitation in both the bride's and the groom's hand; three generations on one card.
- Your photos and drawings — Add a photo or a child's painting, with old-photo, black-and-white or pencil-sketch looks.
- Group cards — Friends add their wishes to one card, each in their own handwriting.
- Festival reminders — An e-mail a week before each festival, if you would like one.
Learn and teach
- Tracing worksheets — In a parent's or teacher's own handwriting, on four-line school paper.
- Uyir, mei, uyirmei — Sheets for vowels, consonants, a consonant's whole row, Tamil numerals or your own words.
- A Kural a day — Read one couplet, write it from memory, keep your streak going.
Greeting cards in your handwriting
The cards we grew up with, made new. Every design is drawn fresh for Suzhi.
Deepavali · Diyas
Deepavali · Rangoli
Deepavali · Fireworks
Navaratri · Golu
Saraswathi Pooja · Palm leaves
Navaratri · Veena
Wedding invitation in both your handwriting2 handwritings
Thank-you note from the couple2 handwritings
Handwriting through the years · Letter3 handwritings
My drawingPhoto
Full photoPhoto
Photo with a bandPhotoWho uses Suzhi, and for what
For everyone who writes Tamil in everyday life.
அன்புள்ள பேத்திக்கு,
Families
A wedding invitation in your own hand, Amma's recipe card, a letter to a grandchild that looks like you wrote it.
அ ஆ இ ஈ உ ஊ
Children, parents and teachers
Practice sheets in Amma's or the teacher's handwriting, a Kural a day, and a record of a child's hand at 10, 15 and 20.
யாதும் ஊரே யாவரும் கேளிர்
Writers and poets
Poems with proper verse lines, and whole books with a cover and contents, ready to print.
௩௯௧ கற்க கசடறக் கற்பவை
Scholars and researchers
Footnotes, Tamil numerals and Thirukkural by number — and a way to keep the hand of old manuscripts and letters.
ஊருக்கு அன்புடன்
Tamils far from home
Write Tamil on any phone without a Tamil keyboard, and send wishes home in your own hand.
நல்வரவு
Shops and community groups
Name boards, notices and event invitations with a human touch.
From palm leaf to phone
For two thousand years Tamil has travelled by hand — on palm leaves, in school notebooks, on inland letters. Today most Tamil is typed in the same few fonts, and a family's handwriting is lost when its letters are.
Suzhi keeps each person's hand alive in the digital world, so that Tamil is written, sent and read in the hands of the people who write it.
Palm leaf
Scratched with a stylus on palm leaves — the way Sangam poetry and the Thirukkural reached us.
Letters by hand
Inland letters, school notebooks and diaries — every home's own handwriting.
Print and type
Presses and computers carried Tamil everywhere — in a handful of letter shapes.
Your hand, digital
On Suzhi, every person's handwriting becomes a font — on phones and computers.
Free, and yours
No fee, ever
No payment, subscription or card details. Every feature is free.
No advertisements
We don't show ads and we don't sell your data.
Your work stays yours
Your handwriting, fonts and writing belong to you. Download or delete them any time.
Kept safely in India
Stored in India and handled under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
Today's Thirukkural · 803 · பழைமை
பழகிய நட்பெவன் செய்யுங் கெழுதகைமை
செய்தாங்கு அமையாக் கடை.
Questions people ask
Is Suzhi really free?
Yes. Every feature is free for everyone — no trial, no paid plan, no ads. Suzhi is made by Oliyon Research to help Tamil thrive online.
Do I need a Tamil keyboard?
No. Type Tamil sounds in English letters — vaNakkam becomes வணக்கம் as you type. It works on any phone or computer.
How long does making a font take?
An hour or two to write the sheets carefully, and a few minutes for Suzhi to build it. You can start with a few letters and add the rest later.
Can I use my font in Word or on my phone?
Yes. Download it as TTF or OTF and install it — the Help pages show how on Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone. Or simply write inside Suzhi, with nothing to install.
Who can see what I make?
Only you, unless you share a link. Suzhi's own team may look at creations to keep the site safe and to help you; every look is recorded.
Can children use Suzhi?
Yes, with a parent or guardian who makes the account and stays with them. The worksheets and the Kural a day are made for children.
Start with one sheet of paper
Your handwriting, your Tamil — digital today.