Links to places you can download fonts for many different alphabets and other writing systems.
Making your own fonts | Other sources of fonts | Foreign imitation fonts
If you find a link that is no longer working or that has moved, or would like to add a new link to this page, please contact me
Ancient scripts
Fonts for ancient languages
- Bugis, Goidelic, Gothic, Chaldean, Saracen, Phags-pa, Ndjuká, Meroitic and various conlangs
http://www.valdyas.org/conlang.html
http://www.valdyas.org/conlang.html
Jack's Scribal and Epigraphic fonts
Coreldraw Font. Download the Coreldraw font by weknow. The Coreldraw font has been downloaded 153,811 times. Looking for Hebrew font? Visit Fonts2u and download free Hebrew fonts for Windows or Macintosh.
- a collection of ancient fonts including: Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, Sanskrit and many others
http://www.historian.net/files.htm
http://www.historian.net/files.htm
Abkhaz fonts
Information about Abkhaz | Phrases | Numbers
Arabic fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Arabic.html
http://freearabicfonts.com/
https://cooltext.com/Fonts-Unicode-Arabic
https://www.designyourway.net/drb/34-free-arabic-fonts-available-for-download/
http://freearabicfonts.com/
https://cooltext.com/Fonts-Unicode-Arabic
https://www.designyourway.net/drb/34-free-arabic-fonts-available-for-download/
Arabic Genie - a quick and easy way to learn the Arabic alphabet
http://www.arabicgenie.com
http://www.arabicgenie.com
- Learn Arabic online with ArabicPod101
- TalkInArabic.com - learn colloquial Arabic of Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, the Levant, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan or Tunisia
- eArabic Learning - Learn Arabic Online with Live Teachers
- Learn Arabic online with Mondly
- Learn Arabic with Glossika
- Learn Arabic quickly and easily with Rocket Arabic
- Arabic Genie - a quick and easy way to learn the Arabic alphabet
Find Arabic Tutors on Preply
- Learn Arabic quickly and easily with Rocket Arabic
- Arabic Genie - a quick and easy way to learn the Arabic alphabet
Find Arabic Tutors on Preply
Information about Arabic | Phrases | Numbers | Video lessons | Tower of Babel | Articles | Links | Learning materials | Books about the Arabic script | Arabic electronic dictionaries and translators | Find Arabic tutors
Aramaic fonts
Information about Aramaic | Phrases | Tower of Babel
Armenian fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Armenian.html
http://www.cilicia.com/armo8.html
http://www.hayfonts.com
http://www.cilicia.com/armo8.html
http://www.hayfonts.com
Information about Armenian | Phrases (Eastern Armenian) | Phrases (Western Armenian) | Numbers (Eastern Armenian) | Family words (Eastern Armenian) | Tower of Babel (Eastern, Western & Classical Armenian)
Aurekbesh fonts
http://davidocchino.com/portfolio/typography/aurebesh.html
http://www.dafont.com/aurebesh.font
http://www.dafont.com/aurebesh.font
Avestan fonts
http://www.skytower.org/~ernstjtremel/Ahuramazda/AhuramzdaFont.htm
http://minerva.stkate.edu/offices/academic/classics.nsf/pages/avestafonts/
http://minerva.stkate.edu/offices/academic/classics.nsf/pages/avestafonts/
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Balinese fonts
Information about Balinese | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Books
Bassa (Vah) fonts
Information about Bassa | Tower of Babel
Batak fonts
Information about Batak | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel
Bengali fonts
http://scriptsource.org/scr/Beng
http://www.omicronlab.com/bangla-fonts.html
http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/
http://banglafont.com
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Bengali.html
http://www.omicronlab.com/bangla-fonts.html
http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/
http://banglafont.com
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Bengali.html
Information about Bengali | Phrases | Numbers | Kinship words | Telling the time | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
Brahmi fonts
Braille fonts
http://www.tsbvi.edu/math/1087-download-braille-and-asl-specialty-fonts
http://www.fontspace.com/category/braille
http://www.fontspace.com/category/braille
Burmese/Myanmar fonts
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/seasite.htm
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Myanmar.html
http://www.angelfire.com/country/burmesefont/
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Myanmar.html
http://www.angelfire.com/country/burmesefont/
Information about Burmese | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
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Cherokee fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Cherokee.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
Information about Cherokee | Phrases | Numbers | Learning materials
Chinese fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseTraditional.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseSimplified.html
http://www.clearchinese.com/resources/fonts.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/chinesehistory/contents/08fea/c02.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseSimplified.html
http://www.clearchinese.com/resources/fonts.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/chinesehistory/contents/08fea/c02.html
Information about Mandarin | Phrases | Numbers | Family words | Time | Tongue twisters | Video lessons | Tower of Babel | Articles | Links | Learning materials | Find Chinese tutors
Coptic fonts
http://www.copticchurch.net/coptic_fonts/
http://www.stshenouda.com/coptsoft.htm
http://www.stshenouda.com/coptsoft.htm
Information about Coptic | Tower of Babel in Coptic
Cree fonts
Information about Cree | Phrases | Learning materials
Cyrillic (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, etc) fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_CyrS.html
http://www.fingertipsoft.com/ref/cyrillic/fontlist.html
http://www.typography.com/collections/cyrillic/
http://kodeks.uni-bamberg.de/AKSL/Schrift/RomanCyrillicStd.htm
http://www.fingertipsoft.com/ref/cyrillic/fontlist.html
http://www.typography.com/collections/cyrillic/
http://kodeks.uni-bamberg.de/AKSL/Schrift/RomanCyrillicStd.htm
Information about Russian | Useful phrases | Silly phrases | Numbers | Colours | Time | Family words | Terms of endearment | Weather | Idioms | Tongue twisters | Tower of Babel | Articles | Links | Learning materials | Find Russian tutors
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Dehong Dai (Tai Nua) fonts
http://www.fixedsys.org/
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/TaiDehong
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/TaiDehong
Deseret fonts
Devanagari (Hindi, Nepai, Marathi, etc) fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Devanagari.html
http://www.devanagarifonts.net
http://www.sanskritweb.net/cakram/
http://www.devanagarifonts.net
http://www.sanskritweb.net/cakram/
Information about Hindi | Phrases | Numbers | Kinship words | Telling the time | Tongue twisters | Tower of Babel | Learning materials | Electronic dicitonaries and translators
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Ethiopic/Amharic/Ge'ez fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Ethiopic.html
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/ethiopia/geez_fonts.html
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/ethiopia/geez_fonts.html
Information about Amharic | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
Etruscan fonts
http://www.dafont.com/etruscan.font
http://www.fontspace.com/dave-bastian/etruscan
http://www.fontspace.com/dave-bastian/etruscan
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Georgian fonts
http://www.fonts.ge
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Georgian.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Georgian.html
Information about Georgian | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Songs | Learning materials
German (Fraktur/Sütterlin) fonts
http://www.morscher.com/3r/fonts/fraktur.htm
http://www.fontspace.com/category/fraktur
https://www.1001fonts.com/suetterlin-fonts.html
http://www.fontspace.com/category/fraktur
https://www.1001fonts.com/suetterlin-fonts.html
Information about German | Useful phrases | Silly phrases | Numbers | Colours | Family words | Time | Weather | Tongue twisters | Tower of Babel | Articles | Links | Learning materials | Find German tutors
Glagolitic fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Glagolitic.html
http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/gl-font.html
http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/gl-font.html
Gothic fonts
Information about Gothic | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Gothic books
Grantha fonts
Greek fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Greek.html
http://www.greek-language.com/Fonts.html
http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/fonts.html
http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/fonts.asp
http://www.greek-language.com/Fonts.html
http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/fonts.html
http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/fonts.asp
Information about Greek | Phrases (Modern Greek) | Phrases (Ancient Greek) | Numbers | Family words | Time | Idioms | Proverbs | Tongue twisters | Tower of Babel (Modern Greek) | Tower of Babel (Ancient Greek) | Articles | Links | Learning materials | Books about the Greek alphabet
Gujarati fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Gujarati.html
http://www.fototext.com/download.htm
http://www.fototext.com/download.htm
Information about Gujarati | Phrases | Numbers | Telling the time | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
Gurmukhi/Punjabi fonts
http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/download.html
http://members.aol.com/hspannu/punjabi.html
http://members.aol.com/hspannu/punjabi.html
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Hebrew fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Hebrew.html
http://opensiddur.org/tools/fonts/
http://oketz.com/fonts/
http://www.daniella.co.il/daniella/bloog/font/Hebrew-font-page1.htm
http://www.mendelsson.co.il/yakov/myfonts.htm
http://opensiddur.org/tools/fonts/
http://oketz.com/fonts/
http://www.daniella.co.il/daniella/bloog/font/Hebrew-font-page1.htm
http://www.mendelsson.co.il/yakov/myfonts.htm
Learn Hebrew online with HebrewPod101
Practical Hebrew - learn to speak the Hebrew that really matters
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Practical Hebrew - learn to speak the Hebrew that really matters
Learn Hebrew with LinguaLift
Information about Hebrew | Phrases | Numbers | Telling the time | Video lessons | Tower of Babel | Articles | Biblical Hebrew video lessons | Modern Hebrew video lessons | Hebrew links | Hebrew learning materials
Hieroglyphic fonts
http://www.yare.org/egypt/glyphbasic fonts.htm
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/egyptian.html
http://www.neferchichi.com/fonts.html
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/egyptian.html
http://www.neferchichi.com/fonts.html
Ancient Egyptian language and Hieroglyphs | Hieratic script | Demotic script | Coptic alphabet | Links | Books about Ancient Egyptian
Hmong fonts
Pahawh Hmong
http://www.reocities.com/jglavy/hmong.html
http://www.reocities.com/jglavy/hmong.html
![Hebräische Fonts Für Mac Hebräische Fonts Für Mac](/uploads/1/2/6/2/126292989/510936803.jpg)
Information about Hmong | Phrases | Tower of Babel in Blue Hmong, White Hmong and Iu Mien | Hmong books
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Inuktitut fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Inuktitut.html
http://www.nunavut.com
http://www.evertype.com/software/apple/
http://www.nunavut.com
http://www.evertype.com/software/apple/
Information about Inuktitut | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) fonts
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=FontDownloadsIPA
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/fonts.htm
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_IPA.html
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/fonts.htm
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_IPA.html
Irish uncial fonts
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~oduibhin/mearchlar/fonts.htm
http://www.gaelchlo.com
http://www.abstractfonts.com/search/irish+uncial
http://www.gaelchlo.com
http://www.abstractfonts.com/search/irish+uncial
Irish language | Gaelic script | Ogham alphabet | Phrases | Numbers | Colours | Family words | Terms of endearment | Time | Weather | Proverbs | Comparison of Celtic languages | Celtic cognates | Tower of Babel | Tongue twisters | Songs | Learning materials | Books about Ogham | My podcast about Irish | Links
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Japanese fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Japanese.html
http://mikachan.sourceforge.jp
http://sites.google.com/site/nihilistorguk/
http://mikachan.sourceforge.jp
http://sites.google.com/site/nihilistorguk/
Introduction to Japanese | Hiragana | Katakana | Kanji | Rōmaji | Phrases | Numbers | Colours | Telling the time | Family words | Tower of Babel | Articles | Links | Learning materials | Find Japanese tutors
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Kannada fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Kannada.html
http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/available/kannada/
http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/kannada/
http://kannada.changathi.com/Fonts.aspx
https://github.com/aravindavk/Gubbi
https://github.com/aravindavk/Navilu
http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/available/kannada/
http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/kannada/
http://kannada.changathi.com/Fonts.aspx
https://github.com/aravindavk/Gubbi
https://github.com/aravindavk/Navilu
Information about Kannada | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel
Khitan fonts
Khmer fonts
http://www.cambodia.org/fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Khmer.html
http://www.magma.ca/~sary/fonts.htm
http://scripts.sil.org/Mondulkiri
http://selapa.net/khmerfonts/
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Khmer.html
http://www.magma.ca/~sary/fonts.htm
http://scripts.sil.org/Mondulkiri
http://selapa.net/khmerfonts/
Information about Khmer | Phrases | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
Klingon fonts
http://www.evertype.com/fonts/tlh/
http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/klingon.htm
http://www.eatoni.com/wiki/index.php/Klingon
https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/horta
http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/klingon.htm
http://www.eatoni.com/wiki/index.php/Klingon
https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/horta
Information about Klingon | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of babel | Learning materials
Korean fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Korean.html
http://cooltext.com/Fonts-Unicode-Korean
http://cooltext.com/Fonts-Unicode-Korean
Information about Korean | Phrases | Numbers | Colours | Telling the time | Family words | Tongue twisters | Tower of Babel | Articles | Learning materials | Links
Kurdish fonts
Information about Kurdish | Phrases (Kurmanji) | Phrases (Sorani) | Numbers (Kurmanji) | Numbers (Soranî) | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
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Lanna fonts
http://se-ed.net/tua-mueng/
http://www.pinpia.com/indexeng.htm
http://www.pinpia.com/indexeng.htm
Lao fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Lao.html
http://www.laoscript.net/downloads/
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/seasite.htm#download
http://www.laoscript.net/downloads/
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/seasite.htm#download
Information about Lao | Phrases | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
Lepcha fonts
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=Mingzat
http://www.fontineed.com/font/lepcha
http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxLepcha.html
http://www.siblac.org/lepcha_script.html
http://www.fontineed.com/font/lepcha
http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxLepcha.html
http://www.siblac.org/lepcha_script.html
Limbu fonts
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=NamdhinggoSIL
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Limbu.html
http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxLimbu.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Limbu.html
http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxLimbu.html
Lontara fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Buginese.html
http://alibataatpandesal.com/outbox.html
http://alibataatpandesal.com/outbox.html
Information about Bugis | Bilang-bilang script | Numbers | Tower of Babel
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Malayalam fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Malayalam.html
http://www.prokerala.com/downloads/fonts.php
https://sites.google.com/site/fontpacksite/malayalam-fonts
https://sites.google.com/site/cibu/
http://www.horomatching.com/KattaFont.aspx
https://smc.org.in/fonts/
http://www.prokerala.com/downloads/fonts.php
https://sites.google.com/site/fontpacksite/malayalam-fonts
https://sites.google.com/site/cibu/
http://www.horomatching.com/KattaFont.aspx
https://smc.org.in/fonts/
Information about Malayalam | Suriyani Malayalam | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
Manchu fonts
http://sourceforge.net/projects/manchufont/
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mang_Manchu_fonts
http://www.daicing.com/manchu/index.php?page=fonts-downloads
http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxManchu.html
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mang_Manchu_fonts
http://www.daicing.com/manchu/index.php?page=fonts-downloads
http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxManchu.html
Information about Manchu | Numbers
Mayan fonts
http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=mayan
http://www.masterstech-home.com/
http://www.masterstech-home.com/
Information about the Mayan script | Books about Mayan writing | Mayan language learning materials
Middle Persian (Pahlavi) fonts
http://www.iranchamber.com/scripts/pahlavi_script.php
http://www.fravahr.org/spip.php?article185
http://minerva.stkate.edu/offices/academic/classics.nsf/pages/pahlavifonts/
http://www.fravahr.org/spip.php?article185
http://minerva.stkate.edu/offices/academic/classics.nsf/pages/pahlavifonts/
Mongolian fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Mongolian.html
http://www.mongoluls.net/font.shtml
http://www.mongolfont.com/en/index.html
http://www.mongoluls.net/font.shtml
http://www.mongolfont.com/en/index.html
Information about Mongolian | Soyombo Script | Mongolian Square Script | Galik Alphabet | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
Mro/Mru fonts
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Newari/Ranjana fonts
N'Ko fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_NKo.html
http://www.evertype.com/fonts/nko/
https://ufonts.com/fonts/jg-nko.html
http://www.evertype.com/fonts/nko/
https://ufonts.com/fonts/jg-nko.html
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Ogham fonts
http://www.evertype.com/celtscript/ogfont.html
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ogham
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ogham
Irish language | Gaelic script | Ogham alphabet | Phrases | Numbers | Colours | Family words | Terms of endearment | Time | Weather | Proverbs | Comparison of Celtic languages | Celtic cognates | Tower of Babel | Tongue twisters | Songs | Learning materials | Books about Ogham | My podcast about Irish | Links
Old Church Slavonic fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_CyrOCS.html
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/ocslavonic.html
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/fonts/wincyrillic.html
http://www.davidzbiral.webzdarma.cz/cyrillicof.htm
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/ocslavonic.html
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/fonts/wincyrillic.html
http://www.davidzbiral.webzdarma.cz/cyrillicof.htm
Information about Old Church Slavonic | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
Old Persian Cuneiform fonts
https://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_OldPersianC.html
https://www.fontspace.com/category/old%20persian
Esnaashari & Sarhadi's Old Persian Unicode Font (Zip)
https://www.fontspace.com/category/old%20persian
Esnaashari & Sarhadi's Old Persian Unicode Font (Zip)
Osmanya (Somali) fonts
Information about Somali | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
Odia fonts
Information about Odia | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel
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Pashto fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Pashto.html
http://www.khpalapashtu.com/sitee/downloads/fonts.htm
http://www.khpalapashtu.com/sitee/downloads/fonts.htm
Information about Pashto | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Learing materials
Persian (Farsi) fonts
Information about Persian | Latin alphabets for Persian | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Links | Learning materials
'Phags-pa fonts
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Phags-pa.html
https://wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Phagspa.html
https://wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Phagspa.html
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Romulan fonts
Runic fonts
http://www.fontspace.com/category/runic
http://www.thesauruslex.com/typo/hniaseng.htm
http://www.libdesigner.com/2012/04/19/25-runic-fonts-free-to-download/
http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/links4.html
http://www.thesauruslex.com/typo/hniaseng.htm
http://www.libdesigner.com/2012/04/19/25-runic-fonts-free-to-download/
http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/links4.html
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Sabaean fonts
Samaritan fonts
Santali / Ol Cemet’ / Ol Chiki fonts
http://ncmurmu.tripod.com/
ncmurmu/id40.html
http://wesanthals.tripod.com/id19.html
ncmurmu/id40.html
http://wesanthals.tripod.com/id19.html
Information about Santali | Tower of Babel
Saurashtra fonts
https://www.google.com/get/noto/
http://www.palkar.org/dwnload.shtml
http://www.palkar.org/dwnload.shtml
Sharda fonts
Free Sharda font
http://koshur.org/contents.html
http://koshur.org/contents.html
Shavian fonts
http://www.demeyere.com/Shavian/info.html
http://www.30below.com/~ethanl/fonts.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Shavian.html
http://www.30below.com/~ethanl/fonts.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Shavian.html
Information about Shavian | Tower of Babel
Siddham fonts
Sinhala fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Sinhala.html
http://ananmanan.lk/free_sinhala_fonts/
http://www.wideshaseva.com/home/free_sinhala_fonts.html
http://www.metta.lk/fonts/
http://ananmanan.lk/free_sinhala_fonts/
http://www.wideshaseva.com/home/free_sinhala_fonts.html
http://www.metta.lk/fonts/
Information about Sinhala | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
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Tagalog (Baybayin) fonts
Information about Tagalog | Phrases | Numbers | Time | Tongue twisters | Tower of Babel | Tagalog learning materials
Tagbanwa fonts
Tai Lue fonts
Tamil fonts
http://www.azhagi.com/freefonts.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tamil.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tamil.html
Information about Tamil | Arwi Arabic script for Tamil | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Language learning materials
Telugu fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Telugu.html
http://scriptsource.org/scr/Telu
http://scriptsource.org/scr/Telu
Information about Telugu | Phrases | Numbers | Colours | Tower of Babel
Thai fonts
Information about Thai | Phrases | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
Thaana/Dhivehi (Maldivian) fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Thaana.html
http://www.mitf.net/index.php/projects/thaana/font-unicode.html
http://www.mitf.net/index.php/projects/thaana/font-unicode.html
Tibetan fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tibetan.html
http://tsampa.org/tibetan/software/
http://www.thlib.org/tools/scripts/wiki/Tibetan Fonts.html
http://www.aerifal.cx/~dalias/bodyig/fonts/
http://tsampa.org/tibetan/software/
http://www.thlib.org/tools/scripts/wiki/Tibetan Fonts.html
http://www.aerifal.cx/~dalias/bodyig/fonts/
Information about Tibetan | Phrases | Numbers | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
Tifinagh fonts
Tolkienian fonts
Tengwar fonts
http://www.dafont.com/tengwar-annatar.font
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/parmaite.htm
http://www.sci.fi/~alboin/tengwar.htm
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Fonts
http://www.dafont.com/tengwar-annatar.font
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/parmaite.htm
http://www.sci.fi/~alboin/tengwar.htm
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Fonts
Tengwar for Quenya, Sindarin, Arabic, English, High Valyrian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Portugese, Scottish Gaelic (1), Scottish Gaelic (2), Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Vietnamese, Welsh
Sarati fonts
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/sarati.htm
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/sarati.htm
Cirth fonts
http://www.acondia.com/fonts/index.html
http://www.acondia.com/fonts/index.html
Cirth | Sarati | Tengwar for Quenya | Tengwar for Sindarin | Uruk Runes | Links | Books about Tolkien's languages | Tolkien's books
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Ugaritic fonts
https://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Ugaritic.html
http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/rk_fonts/rkaf_ugaritic.html
http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/rk_fonts/rkaf_ugaritic.html
Unifon fonts
Urdu fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Urdu.html
http://urdu.ca
http://www.urdulife.com/font/download/
http://urdu.ca
http://www.urdulife.com/font/download/
Information about Urdu | Phrases | Numbers | Telling the time | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
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Vietnamese fonts
http://fontchu.com
http://www.vps.org
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vietunicode/
http://www.vps.org
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vietunicode/
Information about Vietnamese | Chữ-nôm script | Phrases | Colours | Numbers | Family words | Tower of Babel | Learning materials
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Yi fonts
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Zaghawa fonts
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Fonts for multiple writing systems
http://www.wazu.jp
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html
http://www.slovo.info/unifonts.htm
http://greekfonts.teilar.gr
http://www.quivira-font.com/
http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html
https://www.google.com/get/noto/
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html
http://www.slovo.info/unifonts.htm
http://greekfonts.teilar.gr
http://www.quivira-font.com/
http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html
https://www.google.com/get/noto/
Fonts for Miao (Pollard), Lisu (Fraser) and Mro/Mru
http://phjamr.github.io/
http://phjamr.github.io/
ALPHABETUM - a Unicode font specifically designed for ancient scripts, including classical & medieval Latin, ancient Greek, Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, Messapic, Picene, Iberian, Celtiberian, Gothic, Runic, Old & Middle English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Old Nordic, Ogham, Kharosthi, Glagolitic, Old Cyrillic, Phoenician, Avestan, Ugaritic, Linear B, Anatolian scripts, Coptic, Cypriot, Brahmi, Old Persian cuneiform: http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/~jmag0042/alphabet.html
Making your own fonts
Font creation tutorials
https://www.creativebloq.com/typography/design-your-own-typeface-8133919
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/create-your-own-font
https://www.creativebloq.com/typography/design-your-own-typeface-8133919
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/create-your-own-font
Sites and software for creating and editing fonts
http://fontstruct.com
http://glyphrstudio.com/
http://fontforge.github.io/
http://www.fontlab.com
https://birdfont.org/
http://fontark.net/farkwp/
http://2ttf.com/
http://www.yourfonts.com
http://www.cheapfontgenerator.com
https://www.calligraphr.com
http://fontstruct.com
http://glyphrstudio.com/
http://fontforge.github.io/
http://www.fontlab.com
https://birdfont.org/
http://fontark.net/farkwp/
http://2ttf.com/
http://www.yourfonts.com
http://www.cheapfontgenerator.com
https://www.calligraphr.com
Software for generating keyboard layouts
http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/
http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/
Foreign imitation fonts
http://www.1001fonts.com
http://www.2-free.net/foreign-imitation-fonts/
http://www.ezeefonts.com/en/fonts/foreign/
http://www.2-free.net/foreign-imitation-fonts/
http://www.ezeefonts.com/en/fonts/foreign/
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File name | Bahnschrift.ttf |
Available weights | Variable font |
Designer | Aaron Bell |
Copyright | © 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. |
Font vendor | Microsoft Corporation |
Script Lang Tag 'dlng' and 'slng' | Latn, Cyrl, Grek, Vi-Latn, mk-Cyrl, bg-Cyrl, sr-Cyrl |
Code pages | 1252 Latin 1 1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe 1251 Cyrillic 1253 Greek 1254 Turkish 1257 Windows Baltic 1258 Vietnamese Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) |
Fixed pitch | False |
Brief history of Bahnschrift design and production
Bahnschrift is a brand new digitization of the famous DIN 1451 character design standard and was released as a variable font for Windows in 2017.
DIN 1451 is a standardization for letterforms designs created by the German standards body Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Institute for Standardization) in 1931, and was intended for use on road signs and other technical implementations. The design was particularly optimized for legibility, simplicity, and ease in replication. Over the years, DIN has become a popular typeface for a wide range of design applications.
Figure: Example of DIN Mittelschrift (standard) and Engschrift (Condensed) on the Autobahn. Photo by Tage Olsin (licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0).
The Microsoft Typography Team began development on a custom version of the font in 2013 in response to the ongoing interest in DIN among designers at Microsoft. Working from the original spec (design and metrics), a Mittelschrift and Engschrift version were created. This version was fairly limited in character set and was used internally for a few projects, but wasn’t shipped for public use.
The current version of Bahnschrift began development in 2016. At the time, Google, Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft partnered to develop a common implementation of variable font technology and Bahnschrift was chosen to become Microsoft’s first variable font. To prepare for the transition from static to variable, the Bahnschrift source was completely rebuilt from the ground up by Aaron Bell of Saja Typeworks and was expanded in weight, character set (adding Extended Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic) and manual hinting to ensure high quality rendering on a wide range of devices.
Please enjoy using Bahnschrift in your projects!
Variation in Bahnschrift
Bahnschrift’s premiere feature is its implementation of Font Variations along two axis—weight and width. With five pre-set ‘instances’ along the weight axis, and three ‘instances’ along the width axis, Bahnschrift can accommodate a wide range of styles and applications even in applications that don’t fully support variable fonts.
Figure: Example of Bahnschrift’s pre-set styles within the width / weight axis space.
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For those applications which do fully support variable fonts, Bahnschrift becomes a virtual playground of weight and width. Find the SemiBold is too light? Making it a little darker. Text slightly too wide for the text block? Make it a little narrower. With Bahnschrift’s powerful variation technology, you can fully customize the design to create exactly the style you need.
Figure: Pick the perfect version of Bahnschrift for your project.
Other features of Bahnschrift
Aside from the variable font technology, Bahnschrift also has some other tricks up its sleeves.
- Duplexing: The weight axis of Bahnschrift is fully duplexed—that is to say, the width of each letter is exactly the same whether in Light, Bold, or any weight in-between! This is pretty unusual in the world of fonts and makes Bahnschrift particularly useful for tabular data where everything needs to align, or in applications where line lengths are locked.
Figure: Character length is exactly the same across the weight axis, ensuring text lines up perfectly!
- Character sets: Bahnschrift includes support for over 200 Latin languages (including Vietnamese!), Greek and Cyrillic (with localized forms for Macedonian, Serbian, and Bulgarian).
Figure: Bahnschrift in Vietnamese, Greek, Russian, and Bulgarian.
- Manual hinting:Bahnschrift is hand-hinted (special code added to each character) to ensure that it can render sharply, and clearly, across a wide range of Windows devices and point sizes.
Figure: All glyphs have manual hinting
About Aaron Bell & Saja Typeworks
Aaron Bell is the owner of Saja Typeworks, an independent type foundry based in Seattle, WA. He previously obtained a MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading and worked on the Microsoft Typography team for 5.5 years. Aaron’s particular area of expertise is in Latin and Korean letter design. He also works in Greek and Cyrillic design, and in manual hinting for TTF fonts. |
Changelist
Windows 10 version 1709 release on October 17, 2017
- Bahnschrift is introduced as a new addition to the Windows font family.
Windows 10 version 1803 release on April 30, 2018
- Width axes added in.
- Fixes errors in spacing/kerning for a few characters.
- Changes improved consistent spacing across the condensed through regular width.
Windows 10 version 1809 release on November 13, 2018
- Extending the character set to include Eastern and Central European languages which includes extended Latin characters, Greek and Cyrillic.