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Writing Systems (Scripts)
In case you see any small boxes ▯ ("tofu character") in the Sample column, you are missing corresponding fonts for that writing system. Please refer to the Unicode Fonts section below.
| ISO 15924 Code | Script | Sample | Is RTL? | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Arab |
Arabic | العربية | ✓ | Arabic, Kurdish (Central), Persian, Dari, Pashto, Sindhi, Uyghur, Urdu |
Armn |
Armenian | հայերեն | Armenian | |
Beng |
Bengali | বাঙালি | Assamese, Bengali | |
Cans |
Canadian Aboriginal syllabics | ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ | Inuktitut | |
Cher |
Cherokee | ᏣᎳᎩ | Cherokee | |
Cyrl |
Cyrillic | кириллица | Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chuvash, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Eastern Mari, Macedonian, Mongolian, Hill Mari, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Tajik, Tatar, Udmurt, Ukrainian | |
Deva |
Devanagari (Nagari) | देवनागरी | Bhojpuri, Dogri, Konkani, Hindi, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit | |
Ethi |
Ethiopic (Geʻez) | ግዕዝ | Amharic, Tigrinya | |
Geor |
Georgian (Mkhedruli) | ქართული | Georgian | |
Grek |
Greek | ελληνικά | Greek | |
Gujr |
Gujarati | ગુજરાતી | Gujarati | |
Guru |
Gurmukhi | ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ ਦੇ | Punjabi | |
Hans |
Han (Simplified) | 汉字 | Chinese (Simplified) | |
Hant |
Han (Traditional) | 漢字 | Chinese (Traditional) | |
Hebr |
Hebrew | עברית | ✓ | Hebrew, Yiddish |
Japn |
Japanese (Han + Hiragana + Katakana) | カタカナ | Japanese | |
Khmr |
Khmer | ខ្មែរ | Khmer | |
Knda |
Kannada | ಕನ್ನಡ | Kannada | |
Kore |
Korean (Hangul + Han) | 한글 | Korean | |
Laoo |
Lao | ລາວ | Lao | |
Latn |
Latin | Latin | Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Interlingue, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Samoan, Scottish Gaelic, Sesotho, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapük, Welsh, Western Frisian, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu | |
Mlym |
Malayalam | മലയാളം | Malayalam | |
Mong |
Mongolian | ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ | Mongolian (Traditional) | |
Mtei |
Meitei | ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ | Meiteilon | |
Mymr |
Myanmar | မြန်မာ | Myanmar | |
Orya |
Oriya | ଉତ୍କଳ ଲିପି | Oriya | |
Sinh |
Sinhala | සිංහල | Sinhala | |
Taml |
Tamil | தமிழ் | Tamil | |
Telu |
Telugu | తెలుగు | Telugu | |
Thaa |
Thaana | ތާނަ | ✓ | Dhivehi |
Thai |
Thai | ไทย | Thai | |
Tibt |
Tibetan | དབུ་ཅན་ | Tibetan, Dzongkha |
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924
Unicode Fonts
The following list includes only fonts with a free / open license.
| Font Family | Major Coverage | Scripts |
|---|---|---|
| Google Noto Fonts | Pan-Unicode | Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, CJK |
| GNU FreeFont | Pan-Unicode | Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Thai |
| GNU Unifont | Pan-Unicode | Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, CJK |
| DejaVu | Western | Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin |
| Droid | Western | Cyrillic, Greek, Latin, CJK |
| Linux Libertine | Western | Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin |
| Ubuntu Font Family | Western | Cyrillic, Greek, Latin |
| 文泉驿 (WenQuanYi) | CJK | Chinese |
| IPA明朝 (IPA Minchō) | CJK | Japanese |
| 花園明朝 (Hanazono) | CJK | Japanese |
| 백묵글꼴 (baekmuk) | CJK | Korean |
| KhmerOS Fonts | Khmer | Khmer |
| Lao UNICODE font | Lao | Lao |
| Myanmar3 | Myanmar | Myanmar |
| Fonts-TLWG | Thai | Thai |