Gallery of Unicode Fonts (original) (raw)

WAZU JAPAN's Gallery of Unicode Fonts

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Background

The Gallery of Unicode Fonts was created by David McCreedy and Mimi Weiss in March, 2004 as part of their Four Essential Travel Phrases website.

In October, 2006 the site was ceded to WAZU JAPAN.

This Gallery displays samples of available Unicode fonts by writing system (roughly equivalent to Unicode ranges).
These are primarily Windows fonts, although some may work on other platforms.

Without doubt Alan Wood's Unicode Resources is the single most useful website on using Unicode and the fonts that support it.

So why create another Unicode font website? So that when you're looking for a Windows Unicode font you can quickly and easily see what the font looks like.

Samples

Click on the writing systems below to see samples of most of the freely available Unicode fonts.
Note that this list is categorized by writing system. For example, you'll find both IPA and Vietnamese under "Latin", Klingon under 'fictional', but Japanese of course under 'J', Chinese under 'C' and so on .

[ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ]

• Aegean scripts
• Akkadian Cuneiform: see "cuneiform"
• Arabic script, including adaptations
  [ARABIC, ARABIC SUPPLEMENT, ARABIC PRESENTATION FORMS-A/B]
  • Arabic, Ajami, Berber, Comorian, Jawi, ... 124 fonts as of 2009-03-13
  • Kurdish 58 fonts as of 2006-04-25
  • Pashto 22 fonts as of 2005-08-05
  • Persian, Azeri, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Uzbek, ... 90 fonts as of 2006-05-26
  • Sindhi & Parkari 38 fonts as of 2006-08-14
  • Uighur 61 fonts as of 2009-03-13
  • Urdu, Baluchi, Brahui, Kashmiri, Lahnda, Shahmukhi, ... 47 fonts as of 2005-06-08
• Armenian 19 fonts as of 2006-02-22 plus a test page
  [ARMENIAN, ALPHABETIC PRESENTATION FORMS]
• Balinese (Haven't found any fonts yet)
• Bengali 31 fonts as of 2009-03-13
• Braille Patterns 7 fonts as of 2006-05-26 plus a test page
• Buginese 2 fonts as of 2005-07-28 plus a test page
• Buhid 1 font as of 2004-09-24 plus a test page
• Burmese: see "Myanmar"
• Cambodian: see "Khmer"
• Canadian Syllabics
  [UNIFIED CANADIAN ABORIGINAL SYLLABICS]
  • all Canadian Syllabaries 14 fonts as of 2006-09-17
    plus a test page for the entire UCAS range
  • Cree/Ojibwe Syllabary 18 fonts as of 2006-09-17
    plus a test page for Cree, Ojibwe, and Naskapi characters
  • Inuktitut Syllabary 24 fonts as of 2006-09-17
    plus a test page for Inuktitut, Aivilik, Nunavik, and Nunavut characters
  • test pages are also available for Blackfoot and Carrier characters
• Cherokee Syllabary 8 fonts as of 2006-01-22 plus a test page
• Chinese
  [CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPHS..., CJK..., BOPOMOFO..., SPACING MODIFIER LETTERS, ENCLOSED ..., HALFWIDTH AND FULLWIDTH FORM, KANGXI RADICALS, SMALL FORM VARIANTS, TAI XUAN JING SYMBOLS, YIJING HEXAGRAM SYMBOLS, IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTERS]
• Cirth: see "fictional scripts"
• Coptic
• cuneiform
• Cypriot Syllabary: see "Aegean scripts"
• Cyrillic
  [CYRILLIC, CYRILLIC SUPPLEMENT]
• Deseret: see "Latin alternatives"
• Devanagari 39 fonts as of 2011-04-10
• Ethiopic Syllabary 20 fonts as of 2006-09-17 plus a test page
  [ETHIOPIC, ETHIOPIC SUPPLEMENT, ETHIOPIC EXTENDED]
• Ewellic: see "Latin alternatives"
• fictional scripts
• Georgian 29 fonts as of 2005-07-28 plus a test page
  [GEORGIAN, GEORGIAN SUPPLEMENT]
• Glagolitic 3 fonts as of 2007-10-07 plus a test page
• Gothic 4 fonts as of 2005-07-28 plus a test page
• Greek
  [GREEK AND COPTIC, GREEK EXTENDED]
• Gujarati 9 fonts as of 2009-03-13
• Gurmukhi 10 fonts as of 2006-04-15 plus a test page
• Hanunóo 1 font as of 2005-07-28 plus a Hanunóo/Hanuno'o/Hanunoo test page
  [HANUNOO]
• Hebrew 83 fonts as of 2006-09-17
  [HEBREW, ALPHABETIC PRESENTATION FORMS]
• Hmong: see "Pahawh Hmong"
• IPA: see "Latin"
• Japanese 63 fonts as of 2007-04-14
  [HIRAGANA, KATAKANA..., CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPHS..., CJK..., ...]
• Kannada 8 fonts as of 2009-03-13
• Kharoshthi 2 fonts as of 2005-10-15
• Khmer 30 fonts as of 2006-07-24
  [KHMER, KHMER SYMBOLS]
• Klingon: see "fictional scripts"
• Korean 68 fonts as of 2009-09-22
  [HANGUL..., CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPHS..., CJK..., ...]
• Lao 18 fonts as of 2006-02-17
• Latin, including adaptations
  • Latin (too many fonts to show on this website but here's a test page)
    [BASIC LATIN, LATIN-1 SUPPLEMENT, LATIN EXTENDED..., ALPHABETIC PRESENTATION FORMS, ...]
  • Medieval Latin (external link to the fonts page of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative)
    [BASIC LATIN, LATIN-1 SUPPLEMENT, LATIN EXTENDED..., IPA EXTENSIONS, SPACING MODIFIER LETTERS, COMBINING DIACRITICAL MARKS, GREEK, GEORGIAN, RUNIC, PHOENETIC EXTENSIONS, GENERAL PUNCTUATION, MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS, DINGBATS, MISCELLANEOUS MATHEMATICAL SYMBOLS-A, PRIVATE USE AREA as coordinated by the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative]
  • IPA: the International Phonetic Alphabet 28 fonts as of 2006-02-22 plus a IPA & ExtIPA test page
    [BASIC LATIN, LATIN-1 SUPPLEMENT, LATIN EXTENDEDED-A/B, IPA EXTENSIONS, PHONETIC EXTENSIONS SUPPLEMENT, SPACING MODIFIER LETTERS, COMBINING DIACRITICAL MARKS, GREEK, GENERAL PUNCTUATION, SUPERSCRIPTS AND SUBSCRIPTS, ARROWS]
  • Vietnamese 172 fonts as of 2006-05-26 plus a test page
    [BASIC LATIN, LATIN EXTENDED-A/B, LATIN EXTENDED ADDITIONAL, LATIN-1 SUPPLEMENT, COMBINING DIACRITICAL MARKS]
• Latin alternatives, replacements, and attempts at reform
• Limbu 2 fonts as of 2005-07-28 plus a test page
• Linear A / Linear B: see "Aegean scripts"
• Malayalam 16 fonts as of 2006-02-10
• Medieval Latin: see "Latin"
• Mongolian 1 font as of 2005-09-16
• Myanmar 7 fonts as of 2006-10-01
• N'Ko 1 font as of 2006-07-24
• New Tai Lue (Haven't found any fonts yet)
• Ogham 4 fonts as of 2004-04-10 plus a test page
• Old Italic 5 fonts as of 2007-06-23 plus a test page
• Old Persian Cuneiform: see "cuneiform"
• Oriya 4 fonts as of 2009-03-13
• Osmanya 4 fonts as of 2005-07-28 plus a test page
• Pahawh Hmong (external link to Jason Glavy's Hmong page)
  There is a proposal to add Pahawh Hmong to Unicode in the pipeline but it seems to be stalled.
  However Jason Glavy has mapped 3 Hmong fonts to Unicode Private Use Area codepoints.
• Phags-pa 4 fonts as of 2007-01-28
• Phaistos: see "Aegean scripts"
• Phoenician 3 fonts as of 2007-06-23 plus a test page
• Punjabi: see "Gurmukhi"
• Runic 10 fonts as of 2006-01-21 plus a test page
• Shavian: see "Latin alternatives"
• Sinhala 7 fonts as of 2006-10-01
• Sumerian Cuneiform: see "cuneiform"
• Syloti Nagri 1 font as of 2005-07-31
• Syriac 18 fonts as of 2004-09-24
• Tagalog 5 fonts as of 2004-03-28 plus a test page
• Tagbanwa 1 font as of 2007-04-18 plus a test page
• Tai Le 2 fonts as of 2005-12-21 plus a test page
• Tamil 25 fonts as of 2009-03-14 plus a test page
• Telugu 6 fonts as of 2005-04-08
• Tengwar: see "fictional scripts"
• Thaana 20 fonts as of 2006-04-25 plus a test page
• Thai 38 fonts as of 2009-03-14
• Tibetan 7 fonts as of 2006-05-09
• Tifinagh 5 fonts as of 2005-07-28 plus a test page
• Ugaritic: see "cuneiform"
• Vietnamese: see "Latin"
• Visible Speech: see "Latin alternatives"
• Yi Syllabary 3 fonts as of 2004-03-28 plus a test page
  [YI SYLLABLES, YI RADICALS]

"All Fonts" Lists

Both of these lists contain all 1,237 fonts shown on this site.
The 1st shows only the font names and links to the applicable sample pages.
The 2nd adds other font information including source and statistics.

• fonts by name (157 KB)
• fonts by name with full information (551 KB)

Test Pages

Our comprehensive Unicode test pages for various writing systems and Unicode blocks:

ancient Chinese symbols (Yijing Hexagram Symbols, Tai Xuan Jing Symbols, Counting Rod Numerals), Armenian, arrows, Braille, Buginese, Buhid, Canadian Syllabaries (entire range, Blackfoot, Carrier, Cree/Ojibwe, Inuktitut), Cherokee, Cirth, Coptic, cuneiform (Old Persian, Sumero-Akkadian, Ugaritic cuneiform), currency symbols, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (all letters, just Slavic, OCS/Old Church Slavonic), Deseret, dingbats (Dingbats, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Technical), Ethiopic Syllabary, Ewellic, geometrical symbols (Block Elements, Box Drawing, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows, Miscellaneous Technical, Control Pictures), Georgian, Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek (modern, polytonic, ancient numbers, music), Gurmukhi, Hanunóo, IPA and ExtIPA, Klingon, Latin, Limbu, Linear B, Musical notation (ancient Greek, Byzantine, Western), Ogham, Old Italic, OCR/Optical Character Recognition, Osmanya, Phaistos disk script, Phoenician, PUAs/Private Use Areas, Runic, Shavian, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Le, Tamil, Thaana, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Visible Speech, Yi

External links to other useful test pages:

And these sites have test pages covering a variety of Unicode blocks / writing systems:

What's New?

Find out about new fonts at the "What's New?" page.

Or use one of the RSS feeds to be informed automatically.

The full feed announces all new fonts added to the Gallery of Unicode Fonts.

You can tailor what information you receive by using one or more of the "à la carte" RSS feeds instead of the full feed.
These more specific feeds appear at the bottom of each font sample page.
For example, at the bottom of the Japanese Fonts page there is an RSS button for just Japanese.

Here's the complete list of the RSS feeds:

Links To Other Resources

• The Unicode site and their character charts.
• The Unicode site also has "roadmaps" which show current and proposed allocations to Unicode.
• The Script Encoding Initiative (SEI) lists scripts not yet encoded in Unicode and their current status.
• Alan Wood's Unicode Resources and his font information.
• SALRC (South Asia Language Resource Center) has recommendations on Unicode fonts, input schemes, and keyboard layouts.
• Unicode fonts for OpenSource operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD
• BabelPad is a free, OpenType-enabled Unicode text editor with additional tools and utilities. It contains a font analysis tool that can list all installed fonts that cover a specific Unicode block or list all Unicode blocks that are covered by a specific installed font.
• Werner Fröhlich's GEONAMES site has the most comprehensive list of alphabets in Unicode. The site also lists country and language names in their own scripts.
• Poor old 'Dr. International' got the chop, but Microsoft has a new page dedicated to internationalization matters.
• Slovo: Information specific to Slavic, Cyrillic and East Central European languages. Includes samples and information on Unicode fonts for those languages.

Contact Information

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This page was updated 2012-05-27