Syriac Unicode Fonts

Syriac

Syriac script is used for Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (also known as modern Syriac and modern Assyrian), literary & liturgical Syriac, Garshuni (Arabic written in Syriac), and other languages.

The Syriac script is written from right to left. There are three varieties: Estrangelo, East Syriac (Nestorian), and Serto.

font sample *	font information
	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
	East Syriac Adiabene [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMAdiabene.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.21 has 555 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	East Syriac Ctesiphon [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMCtesiphon.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 555 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Estrangelo Antioch [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMAntioch.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 555 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Estrangelo Edessa [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMEdessa.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Also comes with Microsoft's Windows XP Stats: Version 1.00 has 264 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Estrangelo Midyat [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMMidyat.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 555 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Estrangelo Nisibin [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMNisibin.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 555 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Estrangelo Nisibin Outline [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMNisibinOutline.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 555 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Estrangelo Quenneshrin [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMQenNeshrin.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 555 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Estrangelo Talada [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMTalada.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 555 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Estrangelo TurAbdin [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMTurAbdin.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 555 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Serto Batnan [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMBatnan.otf and SyrCOMBatnanBold.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 553 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Serto Jerusalem [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMJerusalem.otf, SyrCOMJerusalemBold.otf, and SyrCOMJerusalemItalic.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 553 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Serto Jerusalem Outline [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMJerusalemOutline.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 553 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Serto Kharput [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMKharput.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 553 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Serto Malankara [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMMalankara.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 553 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Serto Mardin [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMMardin.otf and SyrCOMMardinBold.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 553 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	Serto Urhoy [ show all samples ] (SyrCOMUrhoy.otf and SyrCOMUrhoyBold.otf from melthofonts-1.21.zip) Source: Free download of font package from Beth Mardutho. Stats: Version 1.20 has 553 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Syriac, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Syriac
	TITUS Cyberbit Basic [ show all samples ] (tituscbz.ttf) PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Note: This font does not have the OpenType tables necessary for Syriac. 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

Font sizes for the various fonts above were adjusted to make them roughly the same size for the sake of comparison.
The characters used for the font samples do not necessarily form words but were chosen for visual variety:
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The Unicode implementation of Syriac is described in chapter 8 (Middle Eastern Scripts) of The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0.

The Unicode character code charts are available at the organization's website.

Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about the Syriac Unicode block and its characters can be found on decodeunicode's Syriac block page (in English and German/Deutsch).

The Assyrian Aramaic Language Website describes how to write Syriac characters (not Unicode related).

Writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot.

Microsoft provides OpenType information for Syriac font developers.

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This page was last updated on 2004-09-24

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