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Cyrillic (Beyond Slavic)

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Introduction

See my "Slavic" Cyrillic fonts page instead of this one if you only need a font that supports the letters for Slavic languages (Russian, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Ukrainian). See my OCS Cyrillic fonts page if you're looking for a font that supports Old Church Slavonic.

Most fonts that are primarily for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean have been omitted from these samples for brevity.

Font Samples (page 1 of 2)

font sample *	font information
	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
	ALPHABETUM Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (ALPHABETUM v.9.00.ttf) Note: Excellent font for linguistics and ancient languages. PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Shareware ($15) from Juan José Marcos. Stats: Version 9.0 Feb 2007 has 5,515 glyphs and 220 kerning pairs Support: Coptic, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Gothic, Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Glagolitic, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Ogham, Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Runic, Ugaritic, Private Use Area (Iberic & Celtiberic, additional Old Italic glyphs, Old & Medieval Latin)
	Arial    [ show all samples ]  (arial.ttf, arialbd.ttf, arialbi.ttf and ariali.ttf) Source: Supplied with the Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2) update. Older versions were supplied with various Microsoft products and the Smart package of Microsoft's core fonts project. Stats: Version 3.00 has 1,674 glyphs and 909 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese. Warning: Versions prior to 3.00 supported only the Arabic letters used for Arabic and Persian languages. OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, MAR)
	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
	BPG Glaho Arial V5 Big    [ show all samples ]  (BPG_Glaho_Arial_V5_big.ttf) Note: There is also a BPG-specific font called "Arial Unicode MS" (BPG_Glaho_Arial_Unicode_MS_V5.ttf) with similar Unicode range support as BPG Glaho Arial V5 Big. Source: Free download from either the shavlego file area or the bpgfonts file area. Stats: Version 3.00 has 1,757 glyphs and 1,172 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Georgian (Mkhedruli), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (...), Latin
	CERG Chinese Font    [ show all samples ]  (cerg_chi.ttf from cerg_chi.zip) Note: Also has significant coverage of mathematical characters. Source: Free download from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. Stats: Version 3.01 has 36,701 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Chinese (Fantizi/Traditional Han Ideographs including Extension A), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Han Ideographic (default, Chinese/ZHT)
	Charis SIL    [ show all samples ]  (CharisSILR.ttf [regular], CharisSILB.ttf [bold], CharisSILI.ttf [italic], and CharisSILBI.ttf [bold italic] from CharisSILversion.zip) Note: Extensive coverage of Latin characters, phonetic extensions, and diacritics. Source: Free download from Charis SIL Font's Home. Stats: Version 4.002 has 3,084 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Cyrillic, Latin (Default, IPA, Romanian, Vietnamese, dflt)
	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
	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
	Courier New    [ show all samples ]  (cour.ttf, courbd.ttf, courbi.ttf and couri.ttf) Source: Supplied with various Microsoft products. Stats: Version 2.90 has 1,318 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Persian), Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
	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)
	DejaVu Sans Mono    [ show all samples ]  (DejaVuSansMono.ttf, DejaVuSansMono-Bold, DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf, and DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf from dejavu-ttf-version.zip) Source: Free download from DejaVu project on SourceForge. Stats: Version 2.10 has 2,268 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Cyrillic (default, Serbian)
	DejaVu Serif    [ show all samples ]  (DejaVuSerif.ttf, DejaVuSerif-Bold, DejaVuSerif-Oblique.ttf, and DejaVuSerif-BoldOblique.ttf from dejavu-ttf-version.zip) Note: The "DejaVu Serif Condensed" font is also available. Source: Free download from DejaVu project on SourceForge. Stats: Version 2.10 has 1,843 glyphs and 1,300 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), IPA, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: default, Cyrillic (default, Serbian), Greek, Latin
	Doulos SIL    [ show all samples ]  (Doulos SIL Regular.ttf) Note: See the font documentation for details on Private Use Area characters and advanced typographic capabilities. Source: Free download from SIL International's IPA font page. Stats: Version 4.014 has 3,083 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Cyrillic, Latin (default, IPA, Romanian, Vietnamese, dflt)
	Enigmatic Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (EnigmaU_2.TTF) Source: Free download from Darren Rigby's "Objets Dart" site. Stats: Version 2.0 has 1,096 glyphs and 2 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including Coptic characters), IPA, 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
	FMBF Bardi    [ show all samples ]  (FMBF_Bardi.ttf from FMBF_Fonts.zip) 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
	FMBF Tahoma    [ show all samples ]  (FMBF_Tahoma.ttf[regular] and FMBF_Tahoma_b.ttf [bold] from FMBF_Fonts.zip) 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
	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. 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
	Free Serif    [ show all samples ]  (FreeSerif.ttf, FreeSerifBold.ttf, FreeSerifItalic.ttf, and FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz) Note: Bold and italic styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font. Source: Free download from Savannah. Stats: Version 1.52 has 3,914 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Malayalam, Tamil, Thaana, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Latin, Malayalam (traditional), Tamil
	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. 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
	Gandhari Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (gur3.844.ttf [regular] and gui3.816.ttf [italic]) Note: Designed for the romanization of Sanskrit and Gandhari (Prakrit) languages. PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download from Andrew Glass's webpage. Stats: Version 3.844 2005 has 2,062 glyphs and 105 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese
	Hindsight Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (HindUnic.ttf and HindUnIt.ttf) 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
	Komikaze    [ show all samples ]  (komikaze.ttf from kmkz_tt.zip) Source: Free download of pack 0045 from an Apostrophe archive site. Stats: Version 1.0 has 1,281 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Braille, Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Braille, Cyrillic, Greek, Latin (default, Baltic, German, Turkish)
	Kurdish AllAlphabets    [ show all samples ]  (KurdArabLatinCyrillic.ttf from files.zip) Source: Free download from Ernst Tremel. (Click "Kurdish" on the left to get to the download page.) Stats: Version 2.000 2004 has 694 glyphs and 529 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Kurdish, Persian), Cyrillic (Russian and Kurdish letters), Latin (including characters for Kurdish) OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
	LeedsUni    [ show all samples ]  (leedsuni.ttf) Source: Free download from Alec McAllister's home page. Stats: Version 001.000 has 2,343 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), IPA, Latin (including many extended/additional letters and diacritics), Runic, Vietnamese, Private Use Area (Medieval Latin)
	Linux Libertine    [ show all samples ]  (LinLibertine...ttf [regular, bold, italic, bold italic, and underlined] from LinLibertine....tgz) Source: Free download from the Linux Libertine Open Fonts project. Be sure to keep the ".tgz" file extension when downloading the archive. You can use WinZIP or similar tools to decompress and extract the font files. Stats: Version 2.0.9 has 1,492 glyphs and 259 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus some additional letters), Greek, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: default, Cyrillic, Greek, Latin
	Lucida Bright    [ show all samples ]  (LucidaBrightRegular.ttf, LucidaBrightDemiBold.ttf, LucidaBrightDemiItalic.ttf, LucidaBrightItalic.ttf, and may be others depending on the source) Note: The LBRITE.TTF version of this font supports Latin only. Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2. Stats: Version 1.10 JAVA has 1,402 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including Coptic characters), Latin
	Lucida Sans    [ show all samples ]  (LucidaSansRegular.ttf, LucidaSansDemiBold.ttf, and may be others depending on the source) Note: The LSANS.TTF version of this font supports Latin only. Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2. Stats: Version 1.20 has 2,929 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Lucida Sans Typewriter    [ show all samples ]  (LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf, LucidaTypewriterBold.ttf, and may be others depending on the source) Note: The LTYPE.TTF version of this font supports Latin only. Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2. Stats: Version 1.10 JAVA has 1,376 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin

 

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Related Links

• The Unicode implementation of Cyrillic is described in chapter 7 (European Alphabetic 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 related Unicode blocks and their characters can be found on decodeunicode's Cyrillic and Cyrillic Supplement pages (in English and German/Deutsch).
• TITUS has a great Cyrillic test page called "The Development of Slavonic Alphabets".
• Writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot.

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