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Fonts in Cyberspace
A guide to finding script and language fonts on the Internet

2009-11-05; 105588 reads

Contents of this page

    Large (multi-script) fonts
    Language/Script List
    Font Archives
    Commercial Fonts

Alphabetic index of languages and/or scripts

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B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

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Q

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U

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X

Y

Z

Besides the links below, other useful places to check for fonts are:

•  Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources
•  David McCreedy’s Gallery of Unicode Fonts
•  WAZU JAPAN's Gallery of Unicode Fonts
• Sites on Scripts and Writing Systems

Large (multi-script) fonts

•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.
•  “Aboriginal Serif” and “Aboriginal Sans” — These two fonts work for Native languages using: Roman Orthography, Syllabics, or Cherokee. Both fonts are Unicode-encoded and are OpenType. An “African Serif” is also available with a different glyph for the capital eng.
•  CODE2000 — A Unicode-based true-type font. It is a work-in-process and is offered as a shareware demo. It attempts to cover everything in the BMP. It currently (Version 1.14) has almost 63,000 glyphs and supports 50,710 Unicode characters. It has OpenType tables for some scripts.
•  CODE2001 — A demonstration Unicode TrueType font that covers some characters in Plane 1, i.e., outside the Basic MultiLingual Plane (BMP). It can serve as a test font for applications that support non-BMP characters (e.g., through surrogates).
•  TITUS Cyberbit — compliant with UNICODE 4.0.

Language/Script List

Albanian

• See European

Amharic

• See Ethiopic

Arabic

Unicode encoded fonts

• Scheherazade and Lateef — Extended Arabic script fonts using OpenType for complex-script rendering.
•  ParsNegar II
•  ParsNegar II Web Fonts
•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

• Nastaliq Navees v2.0.1 — The Nastaliq Navees ("Nastaliq Writer") font package provides the capability to render Arabic, Urdu, and related languages in the Nastaliq style of calligraphy.
•  Siddiqua
•  ArabTeX 3.0 (TeX)
•  Jaghbub package

Armenian

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Armenian   
•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Armenian (TeX)
•  Armenian WorldScript
•  Katy Pearce's Armenian Font Archive — A collection of 54 Armenian fonts

Assamese

• See also Indic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Assamese Vijay
•  Shree552A

Assyrian

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Assyrian Web Font   

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Carlo Ator and Gabrial Ator
•  Estrangelo

Azerbaijani

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Turkic Cyrillic Utilities

Baltic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Match Fonts — Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian Languages   

Bangla

• See Bengali

Bashqort

• See Turkic

Bassa

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Bassa Vah

Belarusian

• See Cyrillic

Bengali

• See also Indic

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Free Bangla Fonts Project    Akaash, Ani, Likhan, Mukti
•  http://ekushey.org — contains OpenType fonts for Bengali.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Bengali Vijay Font ($24.95)
•  Bengali (TeX) arosgn*
•  Bengali
•  Ekushey Bengali

Beria

• See Zaghawa Beria

Black Tai

• See Tai Dam

Braille

• See Sign Language

Buginese

Bulgarian

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Bulgarian

Burmese

Unicode encoded fonts

• Padauk    — Myanmar extended encoding with support for Sgaw Karen, Mon. [Regular, Bold]

Cambodian

• See Khmer

Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Unicode encoded fonts

•  “Aboriginal Serif” and “Aboriginal Sans” — These two fonts work for Native languages using: Roman Orthography, Syllabics, or Cherokee. Both fonts are Unicode-encoded and are OpenType.
•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.
• See also Cree

Celtic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Celtic
•  Gaeilge — A simple Gaeilge (Irish Celtic) font, complete with Uncial font style numbers.

Chechen

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Chechen

Cherokee

Unicode encoded fonts

•  “Aboriginal Serif” and “Aboriginal Sans” — These two fonts work for Native languages using: Roman Orthography, Syllabics, or Cherokee. Both fonts are Unicode-encoded and are OpenType.
•  Digohweli

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Cherokee

Cheyenne

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Chey 1 SILManuscriptL

Chinese

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  CJK (TeX) CJK*

Chippewa

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  ChippewaFallsNF

Coptic

Unicode encoded fonts

• Sophia Nubian Font    — A sans serif, Unicode-compliant font based on the SIL Sophia (similar to Univers) typeface. Its primary purpose is to provide adequate representation for Nubian languages which use the Coptic Unicode character set. Since Nubian languages do not use casing, uppercase characters are not included in this font. A basic set of Latin glyphs is also provided.
•  New Athena Unicode — supports Unicode 5.0. [Regular]

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Antonious
•  Silver Fonts Silver Mountain Shareware ($20) — Basic Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Coptic fonts with a Right-to-Left Utility for MS-Windows for typing Hebrew. TrueType and Type 1 fonts. Greek font is the full Ancient Greek set.

Cree

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Cree Unicode font — a Unicode font designed for viewing Cree syllabics on the World Wide Web.
• See also Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Croation

• See also European

Cuneiform

Unicode encoded fonts

• Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform Font

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Cuneiform

Cyrillic

Unicode encoded fonts

• Doulos SIL    — Extended Roman/Latin, including phonetic transcription. Supports Unicode 5, includes smart font code for diacritic positioning. [Regular]
• Charis SIL    — Extended Roman/Latin, including phonetic transcription. Supports Unicode 5, includes smart font code for diacritic positioning. [Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic]
•  Old Standard — Covers a wide range of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters — includes OpenType features. [Regular and Italic]
•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.
•  Macintosh Cyrillic Fonts AATSEEL — Lots of fonts and keyboard drivers at The American Association of Teachers of Slovic and East European Languages
•  Everson Mono $

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

• See Bulgarian
•  Cyrillic Match Fonts ($29.95) Use for Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Slavonic, Bulgarian languages
•  Cyrillic/Russian Cyrillic Fonts on the Internet Pointers to more fonts.
•  Cyrillic/Ukrainian/Slavist — 16 English-Russian fonts. Architect, Bukinist, Kurier, Univers. Code Pages 1251, 866, KOI-8, and Mac character set.
•  Cyrillic Starter Kit
•  ER Apple Standard
•  ER Series
•  ParaType

Czech

• See also European

Dai (Xishuangbanna)

• See Tai Lue

Danish

• See European

Devanagari

• See Hindi / Devanagari

Dutch

• See European

Egyptian

• See Hieroglyphics

English

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Old English Typefaces

Esperanto

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Esperanto
•  Esperanto —  Zamané, Espar and Great Moravia

Estonian

• See European

Ethiopic

Unicode encoded fonts

• Abyssinica SIL    — Abyssinica SIL is based on Ethiopic calligraphic traditions. It supports all Ethiopic characters which are in Unicode including the Unicode 4.1 extensions. Some languages of Ethiopia are not yet able to be fully represented in Unicode and, where necessary, we have included non-Unicode characters in the Private Use Area. [Regular — no other weights planned]
•  WAZU JAPAN's Gallery of Unicode Fonts (Ethiopic)

European

• See also Latin-based
•  Central European Starter Kit — Fonts for 10 languages
•  East-European Match Fonts ($29.95) — Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak Languages

Farsi

• See Persian

Finnish

• See European

French

• See European

Gaelic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Gaelic — Links to numerous sites containing Gaelic fonts

Georgian

Unicode encoded fonts

•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Gorda
•  Georgian WorldScript

German

• See European

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Casy
•  German Fraktur — Sample fonts for Windows

Gothic

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Sadagolthina Gothic font — a font for Gothic with OpenType support for the diacritics used for numbers and for the two vowels which can take diaeresis (EIS and WINJA). The glyphs are those used in the Unicode Standard.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Gothic
•  Gothic

Greek

Unicode encoded fonts

• Gentium — Extended Greek, both Ancient and Modern. [Regular, Italic]
• Galatia SIL   — For displaying and printing Biblical Greek texts in the Unicode encoding.
•  GFS Didot — Greek font family with a variety of styles available.
•  GFS Olga — Greek font family with a variety of styles available.
•  GFS Porson — Greek font family with a variety of styles available.
•  New Athena Unicode — supports Unicode 5.0. [Regular]
•  Greek Unicode font   
•  http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/
•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.
• Apparatus SIL — The Apparatus SIL fonts were designed to provide most of the symbols needed to reproduce the textual apparatus found in major editions of Greek & Hebrew biblical texts.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

• SIL Apparatus Fonts
• SIL Greek Font System
•  Everson Mono
•  Hellas Courier and Ismini Greek
•  Greek Match Fonts ($39.95)
•  GreekTeX (TeX)
•  HIR
•  Linear B — Mycenaean (ancient Greek) syllabary, derived from Minoan Linear A
•  Silver Fonts Silver Mountain Shareware ($20) — Basic Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Coptic fonts with a Right-to-Left Utility for MS-Windows for typing Hebrew. TrueType and Type 1 fonts. Greek font is the full Ancient Greek set.

Guarani

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Guarani Arial & Roman

Gujarati

• See also Indic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Gujarati Radhika ($25)
•  Shree768
•  Gujarati

Gurmukhi

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Gurmukhi

Halq'eméylem

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Halqemeylem

Handwriting

• Handwriting Fonts Victor Gaultney, 2004-05-11; 16655 reads

  Literacy projects often need fonts that can be used to teach handwriting (both upright printed letters and connected cursive ones). This page provides links to resources for meeting those needs.

Hawaiian

Hebrew

Unicode encoded fonts

• Ezra SIL    — Ezra SIL is fashioned after the square letter forms of the typography of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), a beautiful Old Testament volume familiar to Biblical Hebrew scholars. The Ezra SIL font is an OpenType “smart” font. It is designed to work with Office 2003 and above. [Regular]
•  Everson Mono
•  Hebrew Kabbalah G-Khadeysh and G-Mesorati ($19)
•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.
• Apparatus SIL — The Apparatus SIL fonts were designed to provide most of the symbols needed to reproduce the textual apparatus found in major editions of Greek & Hebrew biblical texts.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

• SIL Apparatus Fonts
• SIL Hebrew Font System (Obsolete)
•  Hebrew
•  Silver Fonts Silver Mountain Shareware ($20) — Basic Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Coptic fonts with a Right-to-Left Utility for MS-Windows for typing Hebrew. TrueType and Type 1 fonts. Greek font is the full Ancient Greek set.

Hieroglyphics

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Hieroglyphic — Egyptian Typesetting (TeX)
•  RK Meroitic — Hieroglyphics and Demotic

Hindi / Devanagari

• See also Indic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Devanagari (TeX)
•  Devanagari (TeX)
•  Hindi Vijay ($25)
•  Hindi Internet browser font
•  Xdvng and Pooja

Hungarian

• See European

Icelandic

•  Icelandic utilities

Indic

Unicode encoded fonts

•  INDOLIPI  — contains Open Type fonts for many Indian scripts.

Custom encoded fonts

•  Indian Language Software

Inuktitut

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Inuit, Nunacom and Old Syl
•  Inuktitut
•  Inuktitut WorldScript

IPA

Unicode encoded fonts

• Doulos SIL    — Extended Roman/Latin, including phonetic transcription. Supports Unicode 5, includes smart font code for diacritic positioning. [Regular]
• Charis SIL    — Extended Roman/Latin, including phonetic transcription. Supports Unicode 5, includes smart font code for diacritic positioning. [Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic]
• Gentium — Extended Roman/Latin, including phonetic transcription. Supports Unicode 3. [Regular, Italic]
•  “Aboriginal Serif” and “Aboriginal Sans” — These two fonts work for Native languages using: Roman Orthography, Syllabics, or Cherokee. Both fonts are Unicode-encoded and are OpenType. An “African Serif” is also available with a different glyph for the capital eng.
•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.
•  Linux Libertine

Custom encoded fonts

• SIL Encore IPA Fonts
•  IPAPhon ($20)
•  IPA-SAM

Italian

• See European

Italic

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Aegean

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Alphabets of Ancient Italy $ — Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Volscian

Japanese

Kannada

• See also Indic

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Kannada Font & Keyboard Layout for Macintosh — the only free AAT Mac font for the script.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Shree853
•  Kannada Vijay font ($25)
•  Kannada Internet browser font

Khmer (Cambodia)

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Khmer — Font and keyboard utility
•  Khmer fonts
•  Khmer Software Initiative — All fonts include Khmer and Latin alphabets, and they have equivalent sizes for Khmer and English alphabets, so that when texts mix both it is not necessary to have different size points of the text for each language.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Anlong / Fanlong

Korean

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Johab-Hangul (TeX)

Kurdish

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Font Pack for ParsNegar ($40, $60, $80 Aust) — Sixteen fonts sold in sets of 4, 8, or 16 for use with ParsNegar. (See Word Processors)

Kyrgyz

• See Turkic

Lao

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Saysettha, VangVieng, XiengThong, and Alice0 — Alice5   
•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Saysettha Lao and  package of 35 fonts
•  Lao Script for Windows $

Latin-based

• Handwriting Fonts Victor Gaultney, 2004-05-11; 16655 reads

  Literacy projects often need fonts that can be used to teach handwriting (both upright printed letters and connected cursive ones). This page provides links to resources for meeting those needs.

Unicode encoded fonts

• Doulos SIL    — Extended Roman/Latin, including phonetic transcription. Supports Unicode 5, includes smart font code for diacritic positioning. [Regular]
• Charis SIL    — Extended Roman/Latin, including phonetic transcription. Supports Unicode 5, includes smart font code for diacritic positioning. [Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic]
• Gentium — Extended Roman/Latin, including phonetic transcription. Supports Unicode 3. [Regular, Italic]
• Andika Basic    — A new sans serif typeface for literacy work. Current version has limited character set, but will eventually be expanded to be like other SIL fonts. [Regular]
•  Linux Libertine — Similar to Times Roman. [Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Small Caps, Underline]
•  Century Catalogue — Alternate digital version of ATF Century Oldstyle, but from a larger master size. [Regular]
•  Inconsolata — Monospaced font sponsored by the TeX Users Group Development Fund. [Regular monospaced]
•  Old Standard — Covers a wide range of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters — includes OpenType features. [Regular and Italic]
•  Briep — Personal handwriting. [Regular]
•  New Athena Unicode — supports Unicode 5.0. [Regular]
•  “Aboriginal Serif” and “Aboriginal Sans” — These two fonts work for Native languages using: Roman Orthography, Syllabics, or Cherokee. Both fonts are Unicode-encoded and are OpenType.
•  CODE2000 is a Unicode-based true-type font. It is a work-in-process and is offered as a shareware demo. It attempts to cover everything in the BMP. It currently (Version 1.16) has 61,864 glyphs and supports over 60,000 Unicode characters. It has OpenType tables for some scripts including Latin.
•  Monospace — an approximation of Courier.
•  Thryomanes — A Unicode font with no OpenType tables. It has Latin, Greek and Cyrillic support.
•  TITUS Cyberbit — now compliant with UNICODE 4.0.
•  Cardo — An OpenType Unicode Font for Biblical, Classical & Mediæval Studies and for Linguistics.
•  Junius-Unicode — A Unicode font for medievalists. The current version is a beta.
•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts. DejaVu Sans Mono is a sans serif, monospaced font that has almost all IPA characters.
•  AfroRoman — available in five typestyles ($249.95).

Latvian

Limbu

Custom encoded fonts

• Namdhinggo SIL L font for the Limbu script

Lithuanian

• See European

Macedonian

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Macedonian Cyrillic — Nova Makedonija, Miscellaneous Macedonian
•  Macedonian Tms and Aachen

Malayalam

• See also Indic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Kaumudi
•  Malayalam Vijay/Radhika font ($25)
•  Malayalam (TeX)
•  Malayalam
•  Kerala Express font
•  Shree502

Maltese

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Tornado and Great Moravia
•  Maltese

Marathi

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Marathi Vijay font ($25)
•  Marathi Internet browser font
•  Marathi

Mari

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Mari

Mayan

Meroitic (Demotic)

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  RK Meroitic — Hieroglyphics and Demotic

Mongolian

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Mongolian (Cyrillic)
•  MonTeX (TeX)
•  Soyombo (TeX)

Myanmar

• See Burmese

N'Ko

Unicode encoded fonts

•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.

Navajo

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Navajo
•  Navajo

Nepali

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Gauri, Kanchan and Lakshmi
•  Nepali Vijay Font ($25)

Norwegian

• See European

Ogham

Unicode encoded fonts

•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Ogham — Carved on stones by Celts in Britain and Eire; representation of an older alphabet consisting of plant names
•  Ogham — Beith-Luis-Nion, Pollach, Maigh Nuad, Craobh Ruadh, Everson Mono Ogham, Cog, Crosta, Titus Ogham,

Oriya

• See also Indic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Unicode Oriya Fonts
•  Oriya Vijay Font Vijay ($25)

Other

Unicode Fonts

•  MusiQuik and MusiSync — Music notation fonts.
•  3 of 9 barcode font — Barcode font designed with Microsoft Word 2003 in mind.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Arboreal Tree-building font ($20)
•  Phonological Moraic ($20) — Moraic is a TrueType font which allows you to connect adjacent levels of phonological structures quickly and easily, right in your word processor.

Pali

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Pali Tipitaka
•  Pali fonts

Persian

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Farsi — A group of seven fonts.
•  Persian   
•  Font Pack for ParsNegar ($40, $60, $80 Aust) — Sixteen fonts sold in sets of 4, 8, or 16 for use with ParsNegar. (See Word Processors)
•  Persian Web
•  Persian WEB Browser
•  RK Persian Cuneiform
•  Web Fonts

Polish

• See also European

Portuguese

• See European

Punjabi

• See also Indic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Gurmukhi (TeX)
•  Punjabi (Gurmukhi) Vijay Font ($25)
•  Shree955

Qazaq

• See Turkic

Roman

• See Latin-based

Romanian

• See European

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  6 Romanian fonts   

Runic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Fantasy Fonts
•  Elder Futhark — The oldest Germanic runic alphabet
•  Futhorc Runes

Russian

• See Cyrillic

Sanskrit

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  RK Sanskrit
•  Sanskrit (Devanagari) Vijay ($25)
•  Sanskrit Internet browser font
•  Utopia adobe-utopia-font-cs-encoding
•  Translit98 (romanized Sanskrit) and romanized Sanskrit/Pali

Serbian

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Serbian   — A group of 5 fonts

Sign Language

Unicode encoded fonts

•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts. Has some Braille patterns.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Signes (French), Gallaudet's American sign language and HandSign (French)
•  Braille and ASL Specialty Fonts
•  French
•  Braille
•  Duxbury Braille TrueType Fonts
•  French Braille
•  Braille and Sign Language Fonts

Sinhala

• See also Indic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Sinhala fonts / Tamil Fonts
•  Sinhalese (TeX)

Slavic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Slavist
•  Zamané, Casy and Great Moravia

Slovak

• See European

Slovenian

• See European

Spanish

• See European

Swedish

• See European

Syriac

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Meltho — Syriac Fonts for Windows XP™ and Office XP™

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Estrangela

Tai Dam

Unicode encoded fonts

• Tai Heritage Pro

Custom encoded fonts

• SIL Tai Dam Fonts

Tai Lue

Unicode encoded fonts

• Dai Banna SIL Fonts      

Custom encoded fonts

• SIL Dai Banna Fonts

Tajik

• See Turkic

Tamazight

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Aghlan    Unicode fonts
•  DejaVu fonts — a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.

Tamil

• See also Indic

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Adhawin   

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Mylai
•  Murasu Anjal
•  Tamil Vijay font ($25)
•  Tamil Internet browser font
•  Barani
•  Sinhala fonts / Tamil Fonts

Tatar

• See Turkic

Telugu

• See also Indic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Pothana
•  Telugu Vijay font ($25)
•  Telugu (TeX)
•  Webtlgu

Thai

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Thai — Surin, DB Thai, JJ-Jaksu, Busakorn, NRB Phet, Bangkok
•  Courier Thai and package of 65 fonts
•  Thai (TeX)

Tibetan

•  http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/tibet.html
•  http://www.aerifal.cx/~dalias/bodyig/fonts/

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Jomolhari — Jomolhari is a Bhutanese style dbu-can font for Tibetan and Dzongkha text. [Regular]
•  STEDT
•  http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/available/tibetan/tcrcyoutsounicode.shtml

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Sirlin (TeX)
•  U-chan
•  Tsampa  Keyboard font — Tsampa Keyboard is a true type Tibetan font  which can be used directly from the keyboard without any external  drivers or software. Simply change the font to Tsampa Keyboard and type  away in Wylie transliteration.

Tifinagh

• See Tamazight

Tolkien

• See Runic

Turkic

Unicode encoded fonts

•  Tajik    Doulos SIL, “Tajiki” fonts, Arial Unicode, Copyright fonts

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Turkic Cyrillic Utilities — Installs WorldScript support for Azärbaycan, Bashqort, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Özbek, Qazaq, Tajik, Tatar, and Türkmen.
•  Turkic Latin Utilities — Installs WorldScript support for Azärbaycan, Bashqort, Kyrgyz, Özbek, Qazaq, Tatar, and Türkmen.

Turkish

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Turkish Match Fonts ($29.95)
•  Turkish
•  Lazuri   

Turkmen

• See Turkic

Ugaritic

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  RK Ugaritic

Ukrainian

• See Cyrillic

Urdu

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

• Nastaliq Navees v2.0.1 ($75) — The Nastaliq Navees ("Nastaliq Writer") font package provides the capability to render Arabic, Urdu, and related languages in the Nastaliq style of calligraphy.
•  AlKatib1
•  AlKatib1
•  Urdu (link not active)
•  Web Fonts

Uzbek

• See Turkic

Vai

Unicode encoded fonts

•  http://www.evertype.com/fonts/vai/ — — Two fonts for the Vai script of Liberia. [Regular, Oblique]

Custom encoded fonts

• SIL Vai Fonts Home — Font for the Vai script of Liberia. [Regular, Bold]

Vietnamese

Unicode encoded fonts

•  VPS   

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  VPS Tuyen Duc
•  VNI Fonts
•  VPS Fonts

Yakut

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Yakut

Yi (Cuan, Wei)

Unicode encoded fonts

• Nuosu SIL    — The SIL Yi Font is a single Unicode font for the standardized Yi script used by a large ethnic group in southwestern China. It can be used in certain Windows applications that support Unicode.

Custom encoded fonts (or unknown encoding)

•  Yi (TeX)

Zaghawa Beria

Custom encoded fonts

• Zaghawa Beria Font — font for the Zaghawa Beria script of Central Africa. [Regular]

Font Archives

•  Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)
•  Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) Catalogue
•  FreeLang Fonts
•  Simtel
•  SunSite (TeX)

Commercial Fonts

•  Dynalab - Asian Fonts
•  FontWorld
•  Linguist's Software
•  Match Fonts
•  Multilingual Software Digest
•  URW
•  Vijay Patel Indian Language Fonts
•  World Language Resources

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