List of typefaces

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This is a list of typefaces , which are separated into groups by distinct artistic differences. The list includes typefaces that have articles or that are referenced. Superfamilies that fall under more than one category have an asterisk (*) after their name.

Contents

Serif

Slab serif

Transitional serif

Sans-serif

Semi-serif

Monospace

Script

Brush scripts

Calligraphic

Handwriting

Main article: Handwriting

Other script

Blackletter

Non-Latin

  • Baloo for Devanagari (Hindi and other north Indian languages)
  • Baloo Bhai for Gujarati
  • Baloo Bhaijaan for Urdu
  • Baloo Bhaina for Oriya
  • Baloo Chettan for Malayalam
  • Baloo Da for Bengali
  • Baloo Paaji for Gurumukhi
  • Baloo Tamma for Kannada
  • Baloo Tammudu for Telugu
  • Baloo Thambi for Tamil
  • Latin (extended including: "Latin 2" for eastern Europe, Turkish, and Vietnamese) [6]
  • Arabic [6] (extended character set covering Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, and others)
  • and other alphabets: Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Thai. [6]

Unicode fonts

This section is an excerpt from Unicode font.[ edit ]

A Unicode font is a computer font that maps glyphs to code points defined in the Unicode Standard. [8] The vast majority of modern computer fonts use Unicode mappings, even those fonts which only include glyphs for a single writing system, or even only support the basic Latin alphabet. The distinction is historic: before Unicode, when most computer systems used only eight-bit bytes, no more than 256 characters (or control codes) could be encoded. This meant that each character repertoire had to have its own codepoint assignments – and thus a given codepoint could have multiple meanings. By assuring unique assignments, Unicode resolved this issue.

Fonts which support a wide range of Unicode scripts and Unicode symbols are sometimes referred to as "pan-Unicode fonts", although as the maximum number of glyphs that can be defined in a TrueType font is restricted to 65,535, it is not possible for a single TrueType font to provide individual glyphs for all defined Unicode characters (154,998 characters, with Unicode 16.0). This article lists some widely used Unicode fonts (those shipped with an operating system or produced by a well-known commercial font company) that support a comparatively large number and broad range of Unicode characters.

This list of more comprehensive Unicode fonts, including open-source Unicode typefaces, showing the number of characters/glyphs included for the released version, and also showing font's license type:

Dingbat/Symbol fonts

Display/Decorative fonts

Ethnic fonts

Miscellaneous

Typefaces with an asterisk (*) after their name are part of a superfamily that belongs to multiple categories.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Aldhabi – Typography". docs.microsoft.com.
  2. ↑ "Arial font family – Typography". docs.microsoft.com.
  3. ↑ "What is Special About Awami Nastaliq? – Awami Nastaliq". software.sil.org.
  4. 1 2 "Google Noto Fonts". www.google.com. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  5. ↑ Harling, Robert (1978). The Letter Forms and Type Designs of Eric Gill. Boston, MA: Eva Svensson and David R. Godine. ISBN   0-87923-200-5.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Tahoma font family – Typography". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  7. ↑ "Urdu Typesetting font family – Typography". docs.microsoft.com.
  8. ↑ "Fonts and keyboards". Unicode Consortium. 28 June 2017. Archived from the original on 18 October 2019. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
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