TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Tue Oct 28 09:18:56 EDT 2025

FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE

LUC DEVROYE

ABOUT

Extending Cyrillic

Article by Adobe's Thomas Phinney on how to tackle extensions of Cyrillic in future Adobe releases (in line with the Unicode specs), in the hope of covering these languages as well (population numbers in parentheses): Abaza (45K), Adyghian (300K), Avar (600K), Buryat (440K), Chechen (1M), Dungan (50K), Ingush (230K), Kabardian (650K), Kalmyk (160K), Kara-Kalpak (200K), Kazakh (8M), Kyrgyz (1.5M), Lakh (145K), Lezgi (400K), Mongolian (5M), Tabasaran (100K), Tajik (4.4M), Tatar (7M), Turkmen (6.4M), Tuvan (200K), Uzbek (16.5M).

EXTERNAL LINKS
Extending Cyrillic
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search

INTERNAL LINKS
Cyrillic type design ⦿ Standards/ISO/Unicode ⦿ Type design in Kazakhstan ⦿ Type design in Kyrgyzstan ⦿