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Introduction

The Armenian alphabet was created around 406 CE by Mesrop Mashtots, a cleric at the Armenian royal court.

Font Samples

font sample * font information
Sample of Arial AMU at 21pt Arial AMU    [ show all samples ]  (arlamu.ttf [regular] and arlamub.ttf [bold])
Note: No Armenian ligatures (U+FB13 - U+FB17)
Source: Free download from Ruben Tarumian website.
Stats: Version 2.000 has 187 glyphs and 91 kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Latin
Sample of Arial Unicode MS at 24pt 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
Sample of ArmNet Helvetica at 20pt ArmNet Helvetica    [ show all samples ]  (ArmNH.ttf)
Note: No Armenian ligatures (U+FB13 - U+FB17)
Source: Free download from chanae.walon.org's Armenian font page.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 199 glyphs and 104 kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Latin
Sample of Chrysanthi Unicode (Chryſanþi Unicode) at 24pt Chrysanthi Unicode (Chryſanþi Unicode)    [ show all samples ]  (chrysuni.ttf)
PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy.
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
Sample of Code2000 at 22pt 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
Sample of DejaVu Sans at 18pt 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)
Sample of Everson Mono Unicode at 20pt Everson Mono Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (evermono.ttf)
Source: Shareware from Everson Mono.
Stats: Version 4.1.3 2003-02-13 has 4,899 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Ogham, Runic, Vietnamese
Sample of FMBF Bardi at 36pt FMBF Bardi    [ show all samples ]  (FMBF_Bardi.ttf from FMBF_Fonts.zip)
Note: No Armenian ligatures (U+FB13 - U+FB17)
Source: The Matenadaran website is no longer active, so the fonts can be downloaded from WAZU.JP
Stats: Version 1.000 2004 has 618 glyphs and 1,486 kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Latin
Sample of FMBF Notr at 22pt FMBF Notr    [ show all samples ]  (FMBF_Notr.ttf from FMBF_Fonts.zip)
Note: No Armenian ligatures (U+FB13 - U+FB17)
Source: The Matenadaran website is no longer active, so the fonts can be downloaded from WAZU.JP
Stats: Version 1.000 2004 has 127 glyphs and 802 kerning pairs
Support: Armenian
Sample of FMBF Tahoma at 20pt FMBF Tahoma    [ show all samples ]  (FMBF_Tahoma.ttf[regular] and FMBF_Tahoma_b.ttf [bold] from FMBF_Fonts.zip)
Note: No Armenian ligatures (U+FB13 - U+FB17)
Source: The Matenadaran website is no longer active, so the fonts can be downloaded from WAZU.JP
Stats: Version 3.05 has 2,115 glyphs and 704 kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, Latin, Thai, Vietnamese
Sample of FMBF Wien at 24pt FMBF Wien    [ show all samples ]  (FMBF_Wien.ttf from FMBF_Fonts.zip)
Note: No Armenian ligatures (U+FB13 - U+FB17)
Source: The Matenadaran website is no longer active, so the fonts can be downloaded from WAZU.JP
Stats: Version (blank) has 123 glyphs and 1 kerning pair
Support: Armenian
OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
Sample of FMBF_Hanragitaran at 20pt FMBF_Hanragitaran    [ show all samples ]  (FMBF_Hanragitaran.ttf [regular], FMBF_Hanragitaran_bold.ttf, FMBF_Hanragitaran_i.ttf [italic], and FMBF_Hanragitaran_bi.ttf [bold italic] from FMBF_Fonts.zip)
Note: No Armenian ligatures (U+FB13 - U+FB17)
Source: The Matenadaran website is no longer active, so the fonts can be downloaded from WAZU.JP
Stats: Version 1.000 2004 has 125 glyphs and 249 kerning pairs
Support: Armenian
Sample of Free Mono / Free Monospaced at 22pt Free Mono / Free Monospaced    [ show all samples ]  (FreeMono.ttf, FreeMonoBold.ttf, FreeMonoOblique.ttf, and FreeMonoBoldOblique.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz)
Note: Bold and italic styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font.
Note: No Armenian ligatures (U+FB13 - U+FB17)
Source: Free download from Savannah.
Stats: Version 1.23 has 2,577 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Braille, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, Latin, Runic, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: Hebrew, Latin
Sample of FreeSans at 20pt FreeSans    [ show all samples ]  (FreeSans.ttf, FreeSansBold.ttf, FreeSansOblique.ttf, and FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz)
Note: Bold and oblique styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font.
Note: No Armenian ligatures (U+FB13 - U+FB17)
Source: Free download from Savannah.
Stats: Version 1.76 has 2,734 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese
OpenType Layout Tables: default, Armenian, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin
Sample of Hindsight Unicode at 22pt Hindsight Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (HindUnic.ttf and HindUnIt.ttf)
Note: No Armenian ligatures (U+FB13 - U+FB17)
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
Sample of MPH 2B Damase at 22pt MPH 2B Damase    [ show all samples ]  (damase_v.2.ttf from damase_v.2.zip)
Source: Free download locally.
Stats: Version 001.000 / 002.000 has 2,896 glyphs and 192 kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Cherokee, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Deseret, Georgian (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B (partial coverage of ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Phoenician, Shavian, Syloti Nagri (no conjuncts), Tai Le (no combining tone marks), Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese
Sample of Roman Unicode at 24pt Roman Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (romanuni.ttf)
Source: Free download from EveryWitchWay's Roman Unicode page.
Stats: Version 3.0 has 3,923 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek, Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese
Sample of Sylfaen at 22pt Sylfaen    [ show all samples ]  (Sylfaen.ttf)
Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP.
Stats: Version 1.00 has 729 glyphs and no kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Georgian (Mkhedruli), Greek, Latin
OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
Sample of TITUS Cyberbit Basic at 24pt TITUS Cyberbit Basic    [ show all samples ]  (tituscbz.ttf)
PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy.
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
 

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