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Wazu: Old Church Slavonic

This page shows the subset of Cyrillic fonts that contain the unique, historical letters needed for Old Church Slavonic (OCS). Listed:

  • ALPHABETUM Unicode. Note: Excellent font for linguistics and ancient languages. 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 Unicode MS. 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
  • CERG Chinese Font. 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).
  • Chrysanthi Unicode. 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. 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.
  • DejaVu Sans. 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).
  • Dilyana. Source: Free download from R.M.Cleminson. Stats: Version 1.00 2005 has 346 glyphs and no kerning pairs. Support: Glagolitic, Cyrillic (OCS).
  • Enigmatic Unicode. 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. 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.
  • Free Serif. 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.
  • Hindsight Unicode. 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.
  • Kliment Std. Source: Free download from the fonts page of the Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters. Stats: Version 1.005 (2005) has 1,199 glyphs and 3 kerning pairs. Support: CyrOCS, Greek, Latin (including many extended/additional letters and diacritics).
  • Lazov. Source: Free download from the fonts page of the Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters. Stats: Version 1.00 (December 20, 2005) has 813 glyphs and no kerning pairs. Support: Cyrillic (OCS), Latin.
  • LeedsUni. 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).
  • Lucida Bright. 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. 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. 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.
  • Lucida Sans Unicode. Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000. Stats: Version 2.00 has 1,776 glyphs and no kerning pairs. Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Hebrew, IPA, Latin.
  • Menaion. Source: Free download from the fonts page of the Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters. Stats: Version 2.01 (September 2004) has 968 glyphs and 639 kerning pairs. Support: Cyrillic (OCS), Latin. OpenType Layout Tables: Latin.
  • Menaion Medieval. Source: Free download from the fonts page of the Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters. Stats: Version 2.10 (December 20, 2005) has 974 glyphs and 696 kerning pairs. Support: Cyrillic (OCS), Latin. OpenType Layout Tables: Latin.
  • Microsoft Sans Serif (1997). Source: Supplied with Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2). Older versions were supplied with Windows XP and Windows 2000. Stats: Version 1.41 has 2,257 glyphs and no kerning pairs. Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin (basic and beyond), Thai, Vietnamese. OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, MAR).
  • Roman Unicode. 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.
  • Staroslavenski Unicode. Source: Free download from . In the "Fonts for Windows" section click on the link that say "round and angular glagolitic font, created by dr. Emil Hersak". Stats: Version (Unicode) has 219 glyphs and 92 kerning pairs. Support: Cyrillic (OCS), Latin.
  • Tahoma. Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000. Stats: Version 3.14 has 2,034 glyphs and 674 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 (including polytonic), Hebrew, Latin, Thai, Vietnamese. OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic.
  • Thryomanes. Source: Free download from Herman Miller's language page. Stats: Version 1.2 (Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 9/15/2003) has 1,689 glyphs and 2 kerning pairs. Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek, IPA, Latin, Vietnamese.
  • TITUS Cyberbit Basic. 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.
  • Titus Cyrillic. Source: Part of the free TITUS WordCruncher font package download available from TITUS (after submitting a form). Stats: Version (blank) has 261 glyphs and no kerning pairs. Support: Cyrillic (OCS), Latin.
  • Torquemada Starved Unicode. Source: Free download from the Torturer/Torquemada page of Darren Rigby's "Objets Dart" site. Stats: Version 1 has 979 glyphs and no kerning pairs. Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including Coptic characters), Latin.
  • TransCyrillicU. Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software. Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Latin.

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