MURASU

The Art & Science of Type

Murasu conceptualises, designs, creates and engineers typefaces for various languages across various digital platforms and operating systems including macOS, iOS, Windows and Android devices serving millions of users worldwide.

We specialise in South Asia and Southeast Asian languages

What We Do

Typeface Design

We engineer and create custom type designs from scratch to perfectly match brand and company needs. We put our decades of experience to tell a brand story and message in the visual language that best fits the brand and its audience – helping it stand out from the crowd.

Font Engineering

Utilising practical tech and systems know-how that includes in-depth knowledge of all regional writing systems, we engineer fonts for complex writing systems, ensuring they run flawlessly for companies worldwide.

Our experience sees Murasu as one of the very few companies in the world that engineers fonts with both OpenType and AAT technologies. Looking to build a community of passionate and empowered font engineers, Murasu has put together a free and open source tool for others to use: https://hibizcus.com

Input Methods

We combine our expertise in typeface design and font engineering to develop robust and easy to use input methods that align with complex writing systems and are suitable for all kinds of devices, in-house products and OEM partners.

Our products:


Murasu Anjal – the legendary suite of Tamil input
software for desktop computers, utilised by millions globally.

Sellinam – the most popular Tamil input software for mobile devices that also includes text-to-speech utility

MobileJawithe custom keyboard app for Malay that does on-the-fly transliteration between Latin and Jawi scripts

Sangam Keyboards a suite of keyboards for South Asian scripts that supports over 14 different languages

Language-based Apps

Murasu uses decades of experience to help nature a new generation of speakers, empowering them to master languages through interactive and digital innovations.

Products: Kani & Mani – a language-learning app for children. Details are at http://kanimani.com

About Us

Murasu employs decade’s worth of language expertise and technology know-how to create world-class designs and solutions for the use of South Asian and South East Asian languages in digital devices. From designing typefaces and engineering fonts to developing input methods used by millions worldwide, Murasu specialises in technology driven innovations powered by systems knowledge whilst being deeply rooted in historical and cultural expertise.

About the Founder

Muthu Nedumaran has close to 4 decades of experience in designing typefaces for complex scripts. Through his works in fonts and input methods, he revolutionised the Tamil printing landscape in Malaysia and Singapore seeing the migration of all daily newspapers, magazines and books to his digital typefaces.

 Muthu has developed numerous typefaces, fonts and input methods over two dozen languages across South Asian and South East Asian scripts. His works are bundled into iOS and macOS and some Android devices and thus used on iPhones, iPads, Android devices and Apple Watches. His fonts and input methods are also used as the standard for Tamil text by the Ministries of Education in Singapore and Malaysia.

Contact

Malaysia

Murasu Systems Sdn Bhd
5BA Solok Pulai, Jln Tlk Pulai
41100 Klang, Malaysia

Phone: +60 12 304 3065

Singapore

Grow Momentum (S) Pte Ltd
3 Woodgrove Drive #08-01
Singapore 640502

Phone: +65 3159 5513