IPA Unicode Fonts (original) (raw)

ALPHABETUM Unicode [ show all samples ] (ALPHABETUM v.9.00.ttf)
Note: Excellent font for linguistics and ancient languages.
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Source: Shareware ($15) from Juan José Marcos.
Stats: Version 9.0 Feb 2007 has 5,515 glyphs and 220 kerning pairs
Support: Coptic, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Gothic, Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Glagolitic, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Ogham, Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Runic, Ugaritic, Private Use Area (Iberic & Celtiberic, additional Old Italic glyphs, Old & Medieval Latin)

Arial Unicode MS [ show all samples ] (arialuni.ttf)
Source: Comes with Microsoft's Office 2000, FrontPage 2000, Office XP and Publisher 2002.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 50,377 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Balochi, Persian, Shahmukhi, Urdu), Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Kannada, Korean (Hangul only), Latin, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Farsi, Urdu), Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic (default, Japanese, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional), Kana (default, Japanese), Kannada, Korean, Tamil

Berling Antiqua [ show all samples ] (berling.ttf, berlingb.ttf, berlingi.ttf, berlingz.ttf)
Source: Part of the free Microsoft Reader product.
Stats: Version 1.10 has 842 glyphs and 133 kerning pairs
Support: Greek, IPA, Latin

Cardo [ show all samples ] (Cardo98s.ttf from cardo98.zip)
Note: Cardo is "designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists".
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Source: Free download from the Fonts for Scholars site.
Stats: Version .98 has 2,882 glyphs and 216 kerning pairs
Support: Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters plus ancient Greek numbers and musical notation), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Old Italic, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Greek, Hebrew, Latin

Charis SIL [ show all samples ] (CharisSILR.ttf [regular], CharisSILB.ttf [bold], CharisSILI.ttf [italic], and CharisSILBI.ttf [bold italic] from CharisSIL_version_.zip)
Note: Extensive coverage of Latin characters, phonetic extensions, and diacritics.
Note: Supports contours by using OpenType tables as well as the Graphite package.
See the contour notes on the IPA test page for details.
Source: Free download from Charis SIL Font's Home.
Stats: Version 4.002 has 3,084 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Cyrillic, Latin (Default, IPA, Romanian, Vietnamese, dflt)

Chrysanthi Unicode (Chryſanþi Unicode) [ show all samples ] (chrysuni.ttf)
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Source: Free download from EveryWitchWay's Chrysanthi Unicode page.
Stats: Version 3.1 has 4,383 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Runic, Vietnamese

Code2000 [ show all samples ] (code2000.ttf)
Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage.
Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai

DejaVu Sans [ show all samples ] (DejaVuSans.ttf, DejaVuSans-Bold, DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf, and DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf from dejavu-ttf-version.zip)
Note: The "DejaVu Sans Condensed" font is also available.
Source: Free download from DejaVu project on SourceForge.
Stats: Version 2.10 has 3,932 glyphs and 2,558 kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Persian), Armenian, Braille, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic (default, Macedonian, Serbian), Greek, Hebrew, Lao, Latin (default, Dinka)

DejaVu Serif [ show all samples ] (DejaVuSerif.ttf, DejaVuSerif-Bold, DejaVuSerif-Oblique.ttf, and DejaVuSerif-BoldOblique.ttf from dejavu-ttf-version.zip)
Note: The "DejaVu Serif Condensed" font is also available.
Source: Free download from DejaVu project on SourceForge.
Stats: Version 2.10 has 1,843 glyphs and 1,300 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), IPA, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Cyrillic (default, Serbian), Greek, Latin

Dialekt Uni [ show all samples ] (diauni.ttf [regular], diaunife.ttf [bold], and diauniku.ttf [italic] from diauni.zip)
Note: includes characters and diacritics for the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian dialect alphabets as well as all Western and Central European characters.
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Source: Free download from Lars Törnqvist's Phonetic fonts page.
Stats: Version 3.002 2004 has 1,400 glyphs and 476 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages except Ukrainian), IPA, Latin

Doulos SIL [ show all samples ] (Doulos SIL Regular.ttf)
Note: See the font documentation for details on Private Use Area characters and advanced typographic capabilities.
Note: Supports contours by using OpenType tables as well as the Graphite package.
See the contour notes on the IPA test page for details.
Source: Free download from SIL International's IPA font page.
Stats: Version 4.014 has 3,083 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Cyrillic, Latin (default, IPA, Romanian, Vietnamese, dflt)

Enigmatic Unicode [ show all samples ] (EnigmaU_2.TTF)
Source: Free download from Darren Rigby's "Objets Dart" site.
Stats: Version 2.0 has 1,096 glyphs and 2 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including Coptic characters), IPA, Latin

Free Serif [ show all samples ] (FreeSerif.ttf, FreeSerifBold.ttf, FreeSerifItalic.ttf, and FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz)
Note: Bold and italic styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font.
Source: Free download from Savannah.
Stats: Version 1.52 has 3,914 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Malayalam, Tamil, Thaana, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Latin, Malayalam (traditional), Tamil

Frutiger Linotype [ show all samples ] (frutiger.ttf, frutbd.ttf, frutit.ttf and frutz.ttf)
Source: Part of the free Microsoft Reader product.
Stats: Version 1.13 has 840 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Greek, IPA, Latin

Gandhari Unicode [ show all samples ] (gur3.844.ttf [regular] and gui3.816.ttf [italic])
Note: Designed for the romanization of Sanskrit and Gandhari (Prakrit) languages.
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Source: Free download from Andrew Glass's webpage.
Stats: Version 3.844 2005 has 2,062 glyphs and 105 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese

Gentium [ show all samples ] (GenR102.TTF [regular] and GenI102.TTF [italic] from Gentium102.zip)
Source: Free download from SIL International.
Stats: Version 1.02 2005 has 1,699 glyphs and 2,857 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek (including polytonic), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese

GentiumAlt [ show all samples ] (GenAR102.TTF [regular] and GenAI102.TTF [italic] from Gentium102.zip)
Note: GentiumAlt has flatter diacritics than Gentium to accommodate stacking diacritics used in languages such as Vietnamese.
Note: The IPA range of this font is visually identical to "Gentium".
Source: Free download from SIL International.
Stats: Version 1.02 2005 has 1,699 glyphs and 2,857 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek (including polytonic), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese

Hindsight Unicode [ show all samples ] (HindUnic.ttf and HindUnIt.ttf)
Source: Free download from the History/Hindsight page of Darren Rigby's "Objets Dart" site.
Stats: Version 1.00 January 2001 has 2,894 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Vietnamese

IPA LS Uni [ show all samples ] (regular and bold)
Platforms: Both Windows and Macintosh.
Note: Typeface used for the Journal of the IPA
Note: Some IPA "click" characters are located in the Unicode Private Use Area (PUA).
Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software.
Support: IPA, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Latin

Junicode [ show all samples ] (Junicode-Regular.ttf, Junicode-Bold.ttf, Junicode-Italic.ttf, and Junicode-BoldItalic.ttf)
Source: Free download from the University of Virginia.
Stats: Version 0.6.3 has 1,435 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Latin, Private Use Area (Medieval Latin), Runic
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Latin

LeedsUni [ show all samples ] (leedsuni.ttf)
Source: Free download from Alec McAllister's home page.
Stats: Version 001.000 has 2,343 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), IPA, Latin (including many extended/additional letters and diacritics), Runic, Vietnamese, Private Use Area (Medieval Latin)

Lucida Sans [ show all samples ] (LucidaSansRegular.ttf, LucidaSansDemiBold.ttf, and may be others depending on the source)
Note: The LSANS.TTF version of this font supports Latin only.
Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2.
Stats: Version 1.20 has 2,929 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

Lucida Sans Unicode [ show all samples ] (l_10646.ttf)
Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000.
Stats: Version 2.00 has 1,776 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Hebrew, IPA, Latin

Microsoft Sans Serif [ show all samples ] (micross.ttf)
Source: Supplied with Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2). Older versions were supplied with Windows XP and Windows 2000.
Stats: Version 1.41 has 2,257 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin (basic and beyond), Thai, Vietnamese
Warning: IPA, Greek polytonic, Greek Coptic, and many Cyrillic characters were only added with version 1.41.
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, MAR)

PakType Naqsh [ show all samples ] (PakType Naqsh 2.2.ttf)
Style is handwritten.
Warning: Some characters used for IPA are missing including many diacritics. Also, some combining diacritics are spacing characters.
Source: Free download from the Pakistani Typography (PakType) Project.
Stats: Version 2.2 has 1,849 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Parkari, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic

SImPL [ show all samples ] (simpl.ttf from xsimpttf.zip)
Source: Free download from Vector.
Stats: Version 2000/Dec/14 has 1,995 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Latin, Vietnamese

Thryomanes [ show all samples ] (thryrg__.ttf, thryb___.ttf, thryi___.ttf and thrybi__.ttf from Thryomanes12.zip)
Source: Free download from Herman Miller's language page.
Stats: Version 1.2 (Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 9/15/2003) has 1,689 glyphs and 2 kerning pairs
Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek, IPA, Latin, Vietnamese

TITUS Cyberbit Basic [ show all samples ] (tituscbz.ttf)
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Note: Private Use Area provides additional letter/diacritic combinations.
Source: Free download (after submitting a form) from TITUS.
Stats: Version 3.0 (2000) has 9,779 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Ogham, Runic, Thaana, Vietnamese