Help:Free Unicode fonts
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Since many pages on this wiki make use of more or less arcane Unicode characters I put together this list of freely available Unicode fonts. Some of it is still just links to links culled from Wikipedia; I'll fix that eventually. I will also update the style class used by Template:IPA accordingly. You should use the IPA template {{IPA|[laɪk ˈðɪz]}} to make at least your IPA visible to Internet Explorer users...
Freeware Unicode fonts listed at Wikipedia
- The DejaVu fonts are highly recommended for legibility, although somewhat lacking in non-Latin characters (but contains basic Cyrillic and [polytonic] Greek). It is also very readable on screen under Windows, unlike many other fonts listed here.
- Download page
- DejaVu fonts Wikipedia article
- Junicode is especially cool if you like Old English and/or old typography
- Junicode Wikipedia article
- ClearlyU Wikipedia article
- Free UCS Outline Fonts Wikipedia article — Times/Arial lookalike
Other free Unicode fonts listed at Wikipedia
- Bitstream Cyberbit Wikipedia article (free for non-commercial use only)
- Bitstream Vera Wikipedia article
- Cardo (free for non-commercial and non-profit uses) — Times lookalike
- Code2000 is shareware — not the world's most elegant font, but with extremely good coverage.
- Code 2000 at Wikipedia.
- Gentium is very good looking and has good Latin and Greek coverage. Has italic but no bold style. The combining palatal and retroflex hooks are interchanged (the developers are notified of this.)
- Gentium at Wikipedia.
- The Medieval Unicode Font Initiative defines several useful characters in the Unicode Wikipedia:Private Use Area. See the MUFI font page for fonts that cover it. ATM Andron Scriptor Web has the best MUFI coverage, although its coverage of other useful Unicode ranges like IPA is less than satisfying. Careful use of Template:MUFI for just those characters included in MUFI is advised!
- MUFI at Wikipedia.
- Doulos SIL is good if you want a Times lookalike. The new version is much improved with correct stacking of diacritics.
- Doulos SIL at Wikipedia.
- Charis SIL is awesome, with the same coverage as Doulos SIL plus italic/bold/bold italic styles, and correct diacritic stacking. Somewhat heavy looking.
- Charis SIL at Wikipedia.
- TITUS Cyberbit Basic (page disfigured by frames!)
- TITUS Cyberbit Basic Wikipedia article
Other
- Thryomanes by conlanger Herman Miller contains a selection of Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and IPA characters. Archives with the suffix
.zipare for Windows and those with.suitare for Macintosh. - Chryſanþi Unicode — so spelled! ☺
- Aboriginal Serif from languagegeek.com has good support for diacritics.
- Y.OzFontN
