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Updated Wed 15 Oct 2014 • tags scriptnotes

This page provides a list of fonts provided by the Windows7/8 and Mac OS X SnowLeopard/Lion operating systems, grouped by script. This kind of list could be used to set font-family styles for CSS, if you want to be reasonably sure what someone reading a page will see, or it could be used just to find a font you like for a particular script. I'm still working on the list, and there are some caveats – see the notes at the end of the page.

Click on an image to see the font applied (if you have it on your system, of course) to some text at various sizes.

Armenian

Sylfaen

Mshtakan+bold, italic, bold-italic

Arial Unicode MS(lion)

Arabic

Arabic Typesetting

Traditional Arabic+bold

Al Bayan+bold

Sakkal Majalla

Decotype Naskh

Simplified Arabic

Baghdad

Geeza Pro

Nadeem

Damascus(lion)

Arial+bold, italic, bold-italic

Arial Unicode MS

Tahoma+negreta

Microsoft Sans Serif

Courier New+bold, italic, bold-italic

Simplified Arabic Fixed

Andalus

KufiStandardGK

Microsoft Uighur+bold

Aldhabi(win8)

Urdu Typesetting(win8)

Bengali

Shonar Bangla+bold

Nirmala UI(win8)

Vrinda+bold

Bangla MN(lion)

Bangla Sangam MN(lion)

Arial Unicode MS(lion)

Canadian Syllabics

Euphemia

Euphemia UCAS+bold, italic

Gadugi(win8)

Cherokee

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Plantagenet Cherokee

Noteworthy(lion)

Gadugi(win8)

Chinese (Simplified)

KaiTiSimplified

KaiSimplified

STKaitiSimplified

FangSongSimplified

STFangsongSimplified

Microsoft YaHeiSimplified

NSimSunSimplified

SimSunSimplified

SimSun-ExtBSimplified

SimHeiSimplified

HeiSimplified

STHeiti+light Simplified

STSongSimplified

Chinese (Traditional)

DFKai-SBTraditional

BiauKaiTraditional

Microsoft JhengHei+boldTraditional

MingLiUTraditional

MingLiU-ExtBTraditional

MingLiU-HKSCS-ExtBTraditional

PMingLiUTraditional

PMingLiU-ExtBTraditional

Apple LiGothicTraditional

LiHei ProTraditional

Apple LiSongTraditional

LiSong ProTraditional

Devanagari

Aparajita+bold, italic, bold-italic

Kokila+bold, italic, bold-italic

Mangal+bold

Utsaah+bold, italic, bold-italic

Nirmala UI(win8)

Devanagari MT+bold

Arial Unicode MS(lion)

Devanagari Sangam MN(lion)

Ethiopic

Nyala

Kefa(lion)

Georgian

Sylfaen

Menlo+bold, italic, bold-italic

Arial Unicode MS(lion)

Gujarati

Shruti

Nirmala UI(win8)

Gujarati MT+bold

Gujarati Sangam MN(lion)

Arial Unicode MS(lion)

Gurmukhi

Raavi+bold

Nirmala UI(win8)

Gurmukhi MT

Gurmukhi MN(lion)

Arial Unicode MS(lion)

Hebrew

Times New Roman+bold, italic, bold-italic

FrankRuehl

New Peninim MT+bold, inclined, bold-inclined-A

Narkisim

Corsiva Hebrew+bold-A

David+bold

Raanana+bold-A

Aharoni

Arial+bold

Arial Hebrew+bold-A

Arial Unicode MS(lion)

Lucida Grande

Tahoma

Microsoft Sans Serif(lion)

Gisha+bold

Levenim MT+bold

Miriam

Miriam Fixed

Rod

Courier New

Japanese

Meiryo+bold, italic, bold italic

Meiryo UI+bold, italic, bold italic

MS Gothic

MS PGothic

MS UI Gothic

Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro/ProN+W6

Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro/ProN

Osaka+regular-mono

Hiragino Kaku Gothic Std/StdN

MS Mincho

MS PMincho

Hiragino Mincho Pro/ProN+w6

Kannada

Tunga+bold

Nirmala UI(win8)

Kannada MN(lion)

Kannada Sangam MN(lion)

Arial Unicode MS(lion)

Khmer

DaunPenh

Khmer UI+bold

MoolBoran

Khmer MN(lion)+bold

Khmer Sangam MN(lion)

Korean

Batang

BatangChe

Dotum

DotumChe

Gulim

GulimChe

GungSuh

GungSuhChe

Malgun Gothic+bold

Apple Gothic

Apple Myungjo

Gungseo

HeadlineA

PCMyungjo

PilGi

Nanum Brush Script(lion)

Nanum Pen Script(lion)

Nanum Gothic(lion)

Nanum Myeongjo(lion)

Lao

Lao UI+bold

Dokchampa

Lao MN(lion)

Lao Sangam MN(lion)

Malayalam

Kartika+bold

Nirmala UI(win8)

Malayalam MN(lion)

Malayalam Sangam MN(lion)

Arial Unicode MS(lion)

Mongolian

Mongolian Baiti

STHeiti

STKaiti

Myanmar

Myanmar MN(lion)

Myanmar Sangam MN(lion)

Myanmar Text(Win8)

New Tai Lue

Microsoft New Tai Lue+bold

N'Ko

Ebrima+bold

Oriya

Kalinga+bold

Nirmala UI(win8)

Oriya MN(lion)

Oriya Sangam MN(lion)

Arial Unicode MS(lion)

Osmanya

Ebrima+bold

Phags-Pa

Microsoft Phagspa+bold

Sinhala

Iskoola Pota+bold

Nirmala UI(win8)

Sinhala MN(lion)

Sinhala Sangam MN(lion)

Syriac

Estrangelo Edessa

Tai Le

Microsoft Tai Le+bold

Tamil

Latha+bold

Nirmala UI(win8)

Vijaya +bold

InaiMathi

Tamil MN(lion)

Tamil Sangam MN(lion)

Arial Unicode MS(lion)

Telugu

Gautami+bold

Vani+bold

Telugu MN(lion)

Telugu Sangam MN(lion)

Nirmala UI(win8)

Thaana

MV Boli

Thai

Angsana New/AngsanaUPC+bold, bold italic, italic

IrisUPC+bold, bold italic, italic

EucrosiaUPC+bold, bold italic, italic

FreesiaUPC+bold, bold italic, italic

Cordia New+bold, bold italic, italic

DilleniaUPC+bold, bold italic, italic

Sathu

Tahoma(lion)

Thonburi+bold

Arial Unicode MS(lion)

Microsoft Sans Serif(lion)

Ayuthaya

Browalia New/BrowaliaUPC+bold, bold italic, italic

DokChampa

Leelawadee+bold

Silom

JasmineUPC+bold, bold italic, italic

KodchiangUPC+bold, bold italic, italic

LilyUPC+bold, bold italic, italic

Krungthep

Tibetan

Microsoft Himalaya

Kailasa

Kokonor

Tifinagh

Ebrima

Vai

Ebrima

Yi

Microsoft Yi Baiti

STKaiti/STFangsong/STSong

STHeiti/Heiti SC/Heiti TC/STXihei

Notes

Some of the fonts listed above may be disabled on the user's system. I'm making an assumption that someone who reads Tibetan will have the Tibetan font turned on, but for my articles that explain writing systems to people in English, such assumptions may not hold.

The list I used to identify Windows7 fonts should be fairly stable, as is the companion list for Windows8, but the Mac font spans more than one version of Mac OS X, and I could only find an unofficial list of fonts for Snow Leopard, and there were some fonts on that list that I didn't have on my system.See the official list of fonts on Mac OS X Lion. Where a Mac font is new with Lion or Windows8 (and there are a significant number) it is indicated.

This list is aimed at end users. For application developers, it is considered poor practice to reference fonts bundled in the OS by name, and they should instead reference fonts through the use of 'get system font' or 'get application font' APIs that select fonts based on language or script. Doing so effectively insulates application developers from font changes across different versions of the OS.

There shouldn't be any fonts listed here for a given script that aren't supplied with Windows7/8 or Mac OS X Snow Leopard/Lion, but there are probably supplied fonts that are not yet listed here (typically these will be large fonts that cover multiple scripts). In particular, note that I haven't yet made a list of fonts that support Latin, Greek and Cyrillic (mainly because there are so many of them and partly because I'm wondering how useful it will be.)

The text used is as much as would fit on one line of article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, taken from this Unicode page, wherever I could find it. I created a few instances myself, where it was missing, and occasionally I resorted to arbitrary lists of characters.

You can obtain a character-based version of the text used by looking at the source text: look for the title attribute on the section heading.

Things to do:

• create sections for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic fonts
• figure out how to tell, and how to show which is the system default
• work out and show what's not available in Windows XP
• figure out whether people with different locale setups see different things
• check which fonts don't work in all browsers
• add information about which fonts don't include A-Za-z

Bookends 13.1.5 macOS

Bookends is a full-featured and cost-effective bibliography, reference, and information management system for students and professionals. Bookends requires Intel Macs and Mac OS X 10.7 or later.

Bookends is unicode-savvy, so you can mix Roman (English, French, German, etc.) and non-Roman (Japanese, Greek, Hebrew, etc.) characters.

Introducing WYSIWYW (What You See Is What You Want)
A highly configurable, interactive, and editable interface lets you work with reference information the way you want. View Groups or Term Lists (Authors, Keywords, etc.) on the left. In the concise reference view on the right, arrange fields in any order, show just the ones that you find useful, and label them as you like. Editing or entering information is a single click away. Show attachments (pdfs, text files, images, etc.), or use the reference’s URL to show live web pages of its contents. Notecards let you enter, edit, and rearrange your thoughts, and make citing pages in footnotes a snap. Tag clouds let you visualize your terms and word use, and quickly tunnel down to the references you want.

Here are some of many different ways that the same data can be viewed in Bookends:

• Formatted reference, reference summary, single column reference list
• PDF display and outline view
• Groups, browser, and note stream
• Tag cloud
• Term List (Authors)
• Enter/Edit Reference
• View PDF in edit pane

Requirements: macOS 10.9 (Mavericks) or later.

Web Site: http://www.sonnysoftware.com/aboutreferenceminer.html

What’s New in Bookends 13.1.5

• Release notes not available at the time of this post.

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