Cree Unicode Fonts

Cree / Ojibwe

font sample *	font information
	Aboriginal Sans [ show all samples ] (absans8_51.ttf from absans.zip) Note: Extensive coverage of Latin characters with diacritics Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 8.51 2004 has 4,858 glyphs and 105 kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
	Aboriginal Serif [ show all samples ] (abserif4_5.ttf from abserif.zip) Note: Extensive coverage of Latin & Cyrillic characters with diacritics as well as Canadian Syllabic characters that were omitted from the Unicode Standard (encoded in the private use area). Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2004 initial release has 4,998 glyphs and 3 kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
	Ballymun RO [ show all samples ] (ballrn__.ttf, ballrb__.ttf, ballri__.ttf, and ballrbi_.ttf from ballrn66.zip) Source: Free download from Multilingual E-Data Solutions. Stats: Version 0.66 has 1,334 glyphs and 1,565 kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Greek, Latin
	BJCree UNI [ show all samples ] (bjcrus.ttf and bjcrusb.ttf) Source: Free from the Cree Culture Institute. Download and install CreeKeysLT to get the font. Note: BJECree fonts are non-Unicode. Stats: Version 2.0 has 600 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (Cree Syllabary only), Latin
	CBSUCAS [ show all samples ] (cbsuOT.otf [and cbsuTT.ttf] from cbsucas.zip) Source: Free download from Jeff Klassen's webpage. Stats: Version 1.000 has 735 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin
	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
	Euphemia CAS [ show all samples ] (Euphemia UCAS Regular version.ttf, Euphemia UCAS Bold version.ttf, and Euphemia UCAS Italic version.ttf from version Euphemia UCAS.zip) Source: Free download from Tiro Typeworks. Stats: Version 2.660 2004 has 865 glyphs and 389 kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
	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
	Kayases [ show all samples ] (Kayases.ttf) Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 001.000 has 1,155 glyphs and 17,786 kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Canadian Syllabics, Latin
	Kisiska [ show all samples ] (kisiska.otf) Note: Download site lists the following languages in conjunction with this font: Moose Cree, East Cree, Inuktitut, Naskapi, Eastern Ojibway, Plains Cree, Swampy Cree, Woods Cree, and Western Ojibway Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version OTF 1.100 ... has 801 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (Cree and Inuktitut Syllabaries), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
	Masinahikan [ show all samples ] (Masinahikan_h.ttf, Masinahikan_h_Semi.ttf, and Masinahikan_h_Bold.ttf from Masinahikan.zip) Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2005 initial release has 981 glyphs and 2,983 kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (Cree and Inuktitut Syllabaries), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Canadian Syllabics, Latin
	OskiBlackfoot [ show all samples ] (oskiblackfoot5.ttf, oskiblackfootbold5.ttf, oskiblackfootitalic5.ttf, and oskiblackfootbolditalic5.ttf from oskiblackfoot.zip) Note: A Blackfoot language font - although it covers all Canadian syllabaries with the exception of those characters labeled as South-Slavey (U+1485 to U+1488). Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2003 initial release has 1,701 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
	OskiDakelh [ show all samples ] (oskidakelh1.ttf, oskidakelhbold1.ttf, oskidakelhitalic1.ttf, and oskidakelhbolditalic1.ttf from oskidakelh.zip) Note: A Dakelh (Carrier Dene) language font. Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2004 (initial release) has 948 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin
	OskiDene fonts [ show all samples ] (regular, bold, italic, and bold italic) There are four OskiDene fonts: OskiDeneA for Chipewyan-A OskiDeneB for Beaver OskiDeneC for North Slavey, Dogrib, and Chipewyan-C OskiDeneS for South Slavey Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Canadian Syllabics (default, zz01), Latin
	OskiEast [ show all samples ] (oskie1.ttf, oskiebold1.ttf, oskieitalic1.ttf, and oskiebolditalic1.ttf from oskieast.zip) Note: Download site lists the following languages in conjunction with this font: Moose Cree, East Cree, Inuktitut, Naskapi, and Eastern Ojibway. Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2003 initial release has 1,700 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
	OskiWest [ show all samples ] (oskiw1.ttf, oskiwbold1.ttf, oskiwitalic1.ttf, and oskiwbolditalic1.ttf from oskiwest.zip) Note: Download site lists the following languages in conjunction with this font: Plains Cree, Swampy Cree, Woods Cree, and Western Ojibway. Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2003 initial release has 1,700 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
	Pitabek [ show all samples ] (pitabek.ttf) Note: Download site lists the following languages in conjunction with this font: Beaver, Chipewyan, Plains Cree, Swampy Cree, Oji-Cree, Dogrib, Western Ojibway, and Slavey. Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 1.000 2005 (initial release) has 777 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Canadian Syllabics, Latin
	Rotinonhsonni Sans [ show all samples ] (rotinonhversion.ttf [regular], rotinonhbversion.ttf [bold], rotinonhiversion.ttf [italic], and rotinonhbiversion.ttf [bold italic] from RotinonhSans.zip) Source: Free download from LanguageGeek.com Stats: Version 8.007 2006 has 4,960 glyphs and 106 kerning pairs Support: Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Latin

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 Canadian Syllabics is described in chapter 13 (Additional Modern 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 Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Unicode block and its characters can be found on decodeunicode's Canadian Syllabics block page (in English and German/Deutsch).

Chris Harvey's Syllabics pages are outstanding.

Writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot.

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This page was last updated on 2006-09-17

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