SEARCH GOOGLE FOR FONTS: |
(Remember to look for bitmap fonts only, Lipikar does not support Unicode extended characters or DBCS/MBCS fonts)
SOME POPULAR FONT DOWNLOAD SITES: |
The ultimate free font resource on the Internet is the freeware/shareware fonts page on the DMOZ Open Directory Project.
Omniglot, Yamada Language Center at University of Oregon, FontSeek and likes are the sites to visit if you are looking for non-Roman fonts.
An excellent collection of free Indian fonts (Kannada, Hindi, Marathi, Devnagari, Konkani, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam) are available at Baraha.com, along with a free word processor. Individual fonts are not available, all fonts and the editor are bundled together.
SCRIPTS AND LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD: |
The following is a chart of the scripts of the world and the language(s) they are used by. I have compiled it from several sources on the Internet.
This chart will also help you search for fonts of the world - clicking on any script name will initiate a Google search for its fonts (javascript courtesy Mr Barun Basak) :
Script | Used by Language(s) |
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Baluchi, Comorian, Coptic, Dogri, Eastern Cham, Farsi, Hausa, Indonesian, Ingush, Kashmiri, Kirghiz, Kurdish, Lahnda, Malay, Parsi-dari, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi, Susu, Tajik, Turkmen, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek, Wolof | |
Armenian | |
Balti | |
Batak, Batak Toba | |
Assamese, Bengali, Chakma, Garo, Khasi, Manipuri/Meetei Mayek, Mundari, Naga, Riang (Myanmar), Santali, Sylheti | |
Bugi | |
Buhid | |
Cree, Inuktitut | |
Chakma | |
Cham | |
Cherokee, Tsalagi | |
Vietnamese | |
Abaza, Abkhaz, Adygei, Aisor, Altai, Avar, Azerbaijani, Azeri, Balkar, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash, Dargwa, Dungan, Evenki, Gagauz, Ingush, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kazakh, Khakass, Khanty, Kirghiz, Komi, Koryak, Kurdish, Lak, Lezghian, Macedonian, Mansi, Mari, Moldavian, Mongolian, Mordvin, Nanai, Nenets, Netets, Nogai, Ossetic, Romany, Russian, Sami, Selkup, Serbian, Shor, Tabasaran, Tajik or Tadzhik, Tat, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuva, Udekhe, Udmurt, Uighur, Ukranian, Uzbek, Yakut | |
Awadhi, Bagheli, Balti, Bateri, Bhili, Bhojpuri, Bihari, Braj bhasha, Chhattisgarhi, Garhwali, Gondi, Harauti, Hindi, Ho, Kachchi, Kanauji, Kankan, Kashmiri, Konkan, Limbu, Marathi, Marwari, Mundari, Nepali, Newari, Pali, Sanskrit, Santali, Sherpa | |
Amharic, Ge'ez, Oromo, Tigre | |
Georgian | |
Coptic, Greek | |
Gujarati | |
Punjabi | |
Chinese | |
Korean | |
Hanunóo | |
Hebrew, Judezmo, Ladino, Samaritan, Yiddish, | |
Japanese | |
Hmong | |
Javanese | |
Kannada, Tulu | |
Ainu | |
Khmer | |
Lao | |
Afrikaans, Ainu, Albanian, Amo, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Azeri, Bahasa, Balear, Basque, Batak, Batak Toba, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cherokee, Cornish, Corsican, Cree, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Edo, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Gaelic, Gascon, German, Guarani, Hanunóo, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hmong, Hopi, Hungarian, Ibibio, Icelandic, Indonesian, Ingush, Inuktitut, Iñupiaq, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Kanuri, Karelian, Khasi, Kirghiz, Komi, Kurdish, Lapp, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lisu, Lushootseed, Luxemburgish, Malay, Maltese, Mari, Naga, Navajo, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Provençal, Prussian, Quechua, Romanian, Romany, Sami, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tahitian, Tajik or Tadzhik, Tamazight ,Turkish, Turkmen, Udmurt, Uighur, Uzbek, Valencian, Vietnamese, Yi, Yoruba | |
Lepcha | |
Limbu | |
Lisu | |
Malayalam | |
Meitei | |
Manchu, Mongolian | |
Burmese, Khamti, Mon, Shan | |
Naxi | |
Santali | |
Oriya, Santali | |
Newari | |
Newari | |
Samaritan | |
Pali, Sinhala, Sanskrit | |
Sylhetti | |
Assyrian (modern), Garshuni, Swadaya, Syriac, Turoyo | |
Tagalog | |
Tagbanwa | |
Badaga, Tamil | |
Gondi, Lambadi, Telugu | |
Dhivehi, Maldivian | |
Kuy, Lawa (eastern), Lawa (western), Pali, Thai | |
Dzongkha, Tibetan | |
Tamazight | |
Uighur | |
Yi |
Last but not the least, I am neither a linguist nor an expert on scripts or fonts. So, if you find any of the above information incorrect, I would appreciate if you let me know about it along with your suggestion on how to correct it.
