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
.
- 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]
- 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
- Star Trek:
- Ferengi (Haven't found any fonts yet)
[PRIVATE USE AREA U+E600 - U+E62F as
coordinated by the ConScript Unicode Registry]
- Klingon 1 font as of 2004-03-28 plus
a test page
[PRIVATE USE AREA U+F8D0 - U+F8FF as
coordinated by the ConScript Unicode Registry]
- J.R.R Tolkien:
- Cirth
Runes 2 fonts as of 2004-03-28 plus a test
page
[PRIVATE USE AREA U+E080 - U+E0FF as
coordinated by the ConScript Unicode Registry]
- Feanor's Tengwar 2 fonts as of 2004-03-28
[PRIVATE USE AREA U+E000 - U+E07F as
coordinated by the ConScript Unicode Registry]
- 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
- Deseret 2 fonts as of 2005-07-28 plus
a test page
[DESERET]
- Ewellic 1 font as of 2004-03-28 plus
a test page
[PRIVATE USE AREA U+E690 - U+E6CF as
coordinated by the ConScript Unicode Registry]
- Shavian 4 fonts as of 2005-07-28 plus
a test page
[SHAVIAN]
- Monofon (haven't found any Unicode fonts)
[PRIVATE USE AREA as coordinated by
the ConScript Unicode Registry]
- Unifon (haven't found any Unicode fonts)
[PRIVATE USE AREA as coordinated by
the ConScript Unicode Registry]
- Visible Speech 2 fonts as of 2006-01-22 plus
a test
page
[PRIVATE USE AREA as coordinated by
the ConScript Unicode Registry]
- 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.
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?
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The full feed
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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.
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