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Language Fonts Beyond Western Europe and US
When you need to say it in something other than English, French, or Spanish, find a font with a character set other than ABC. Here's where to find fonts for character sets other than Latin-1 or Western European languages including Arabic, Japanese, Cyrillic, Central & Eastern European, Hebrew, and Greek.
Arabic Fonts (commercial)
From Pr. A. Bannour, and Layout Ltd., CD-ROM collections of fonts in Arabic. View samples online.
Armenian Fonts (free/commercial)
Free and commercial fonts, including some nice borders.
Armenian: AMAMCO Technical Services (commercial)
View typeface samples, place orders online for Armenian TrueType fonts for Windows and Mac. Eastern and Western keyboard layouts available.
Central / Eastern European (Latin-2) Fonts
Sources for fonts for various platforms for languages that use the Latin-2 character set.
Central European Starter Kit (commercial)
Use Central European languages under Windows. Includes TrueType fonts utilizing the ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2) character set.
Chinese: DynaLab (free)
Free one-byte Chinese TrueType font samples. Due to directory changes, use the above link to read about them then use this link to view the directory and download the files.
Cyrillic (Russian) Fonts (commercial)
Linguist's Software Windows and Mac TrueType and Type 1 fonts.
Cyrillic Font Pack 1 (commercial)
Get Cyrillic versions of several popular fonts including Brush Stroke and Kids Hand.
Cyrillic Fonts (free)
ZIP files of a variety of serif, sans serif, and script Cyrillic fonts for download.
Cyrillic Fonts for Windows (free)
Information on using Cyrillic fonts in Netscape plus free Russian fonts from Paul Gorodyansky.
Cyrillic Support (commercial)
Fonts and software support for using Cyrillic-based languages under Windows.
Indian: Cybershoppee
Devnagari fonts and font software available here.
Sutterlin - Michael Obach (free)
Michael Obach's version of Sutterlin, an old German lettering style. Windows ZIP file.
Sutterlin - Resurrektionarium (free)
The page is in German but scroll down to download Windows fonts for this old-style cursive font found in old German manuscripts.
Various: Computer Digest Multilingual Software
Links to informational pages on companies with fonts, graphics software, desktop publishing software and much more for languages from Afrikaans to Yukon.
Various: Fingertip Software (commercial)
Windows/Mac Fonts and utilities for Cyrillic, Central European, Western, and Middle Eastern language support.
Various: Font World (commercial)
A variety of "Beautiful Faces" for Central European, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Greek, and Vietnamese languages. Custom designs are also available.
Various: Linguist's Software Fonts
Languages from Acholi to Zuni in Mac and Windows formats.
Various: ParaType (commercial)
Typefaces for a variety of languages including Cyrillic-based, Central European, Greek, Arabic, and more.
Vietnamese Fonts (commercial)
Linguist's Software Windows and Mac TrueType and Type-1 fonts.