Links: Free foreign fonts

Abkhaz, Amharic, Ancient, Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, Avestan, Balinese, Bassa, Batak, Bengali, Bisaya, Brahmi, Braille, Bugis, Burmese/Myanmar, Cambodian, Cherokee, Chinese, Coptic, Cree, Cyrillic, Dehong Dai (Tai Nua), Deseret, Devanagari, Djembe, Divehi, Epi-Olmec, Ethiopic, Etruscan, Farsi, Fraktur, Ge'ez, Georgian, Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek, Gurjarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Hieroglyphs, Hmong, Inuktitut, Irish Uncial, IPA, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Klingon, Korean, Lanna, Lao, Latin, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Manchu, Mayan, Mongolian, Newari/Ranjana, N'Ko, Ogham, Old Church Slavonic, Osmanya/Somali, Oriya, Pahlavi, Persian, 'Phags-pa, Punjabi, Romulan, Runes, Russian, Sabaean, Santali, Saurashtra, Sharda, Shavian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Sütterlin, Syriac, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Lue, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thai, Thaana, Tibetan, Tifinagh, Tolkienian, Unicode, Unifon, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yi

Making your own fonts | Other sources of fonts

Foreign imitation fonts
http://www.1001fonts.com
http://www.2-free.net/foreign-imitation-fonts/
http://www.ezeefonts.com/en/fonts/foreign/

Apple font tools: http://developer.apple.com/fonts/

Fontifier

Font creation programs

http://users.breathe.com/l-emmett/
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
http://www.fontlab.com



Ancient fonts

Fonts for ancient and constructed languages

- Bugis, Goidelic, Gothic, Chaldean, Saracen, Phags-pa, Ndjuká, Meroitic and various conlangs: http://www.valdyas.org/conlang.html

Jack's Scribal and Epigraphic fonts

- a collection of ancient fonts including: Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, Sanskrit and many others: http://www.historian.net/files.htm

Biblical fonts

- collections of biblical and other ancient fonts including: Akkadian, Coptic, Etruscan, Greek, Hebrew, Linear B, Nabatean and Syriac: http://journalofbiblicalstudies.org/Links/fonts.htm
http://www.sbl-site.org/Resources/Resources_BiblicalFonts.aspx

Coron's sources of fonts

- fantasy, ancient and symbolic fonts, including Tengwar, numerous Runic fonts, Ogham, Linear B, Celtiberian, Phoenician, Hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, Avestan and Syriac: http://www.geocities.com/timessquare/alley/1557/fonts1.htm

Star Wars and other sci-fi fonts

http://www.echostation.com/features/aurebesh.htm
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4965/sffont.html#ewok

Abkhaz fonts

http://www.abkhazeti.ru/arc/abkhazuri1.zip

Information about Abkhaz

Fonts.com

Arabic fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Arabic.html
http://www.isc.com.au/WebFonts/
http://www.geocities.com/arabclipart/fonts/
http://freearabicfonts.com/

Arabic Genie - a quick and easy way to learn the Arabic alphabet
http://www.arabicgenie.com

Information about Arabic | Arabic phrases | Arabic learning materials

Aramaic fonts

http://www.historian.net/files.htm
http://www.aramaicpeshitta.com/fonts.htm

Information about Aramaic

Armenian fonts

http://www.cilicia.com/armo8.html

Information about Armenian | Armenian phrases

Avestan fonts

http://www.iranianlanguages.com/dctr.htm
http://cnes.cla.umn.edu/resources/IranianPages/avesta_fonts.htm

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Balinese fonts

http://www.babadbali.com/aksarabali/balisimbar.htm
http://www.geocities.com/jglavy/asian.html

Bassa (Vah) fonts

http://www.ie-inc.com/vkarmo/bfont.htm

Batak fonts

http://www.hawaii.edu/indolang/surat

Bengali fonts

http://www.ekushey.org/index.php/page/otf_bangla_fonts
http://www.barnamala.com/badda/fonthelp.html
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/Lang/bengali.html
http://www.epatra.com/help_dfont.html

Information about Bengali | Bengali phrases | Bengali learning materials

Bisaya fonts

http://alibataatpandesal.com/outbox.html

Brahmi fonts

http://www.jwajalapa.com/lipi/download.php

Braille fonts

http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/fonts.html

Burmese/Myanmar fonts

http://www.faxtoon.com/docs/bur_font/bur_font.htm
http://www.nandawon.demon.co.uk/burmese-fonts
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/seasite.htm

Information about Burmese | Burmese learning materials

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Fonts.com

Cherokee fonts

http://www.cherokee.org/Culture/CherokeeFont/Downloads.aspx
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Cherokee.html
http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~joant/Cherokee.html

Chinese fonts

http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/edv/sinopc/chinese_fonts.htm
http://www.indeed.com.tw/download.html
http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/fonts.html
http://www.twinbridge.com

Coptic fonts

http://www.copticchurch.net/coptic_fonts/
http://www.stshenouda.com/coptsoft.htm
http://heh.pl/&pk

Cree fonts

http://www.creeculture.ca/e/language/fonts_kbds.html

Cyrillic (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, etc) fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_CyrS.html
http://www.typenow.net/language.htm
http://www.fingertipsoft.com/ref/cyrillic/fontlist.html

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Dehong Dai (Tai Nua) fonts

http://www.fixedsys.org/
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/TaiDehong

Deseret fonts

http://home.earthlink.net/~sbartok1632/projects/fonts.htm
http://copper.chem.ucla.edu/~jericks/Deseret_Alphabet_Fonts.html

Devanagari (Hindi, Nepai, Marathi, etc) fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Devanagari.html
http://www.kiranfont.com

Djembe fonts

http://www.djembe.net/fontinst.shtml

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Epi-Olmec fonts

http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo/Epi-Olmec/

Ethiopic/Amharic/Ge'ez fonts

http://www.ethiozena.net/info/faq.html
http://www.geezsoft.com/home/
http://www.punchdown.org/rvb/email/UniGeez.html

Etruscan fonts

http://users.tpg.com.au/etr/etrusk/alph/etrFont.html

Fonts.com

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Georgian fonts

http://www.fonts.ge
http://www.geocities.com/shavlego/grfntdoc.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Georgian.html

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German (Fraktur/Sütterlin) fonts

http://www.gfonts.com/gesetz/
http://www.morscher.com/3r/fonts/fraktur.htm
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/

Glagolitic fonts

http://fixedsys.org/~node_ue/fonts/
http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~zox/glagoljica.html

Gothic fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Gothic.html http://robert-pfeffer.spacequadrat.de/schriftarten/
http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/gothic_1.html

Greek fonts

http://www.phantis.com/customer.service/greek.fonts.html
http://www.ntgateway.com/greek/fonts.htm
http://www.hellenic.net/fonts
http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/fonts.html
http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/pages/en_typefaces20th.html

Gujarati fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Gujarati.html
http://www.fototext.com/download.htm

Gurmukhi/Punjabi fonts

http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/download.html
http://members.aol.com/hspannu/punjabi.html
http://www.chardikalaa.com/dlGur.htm
http://www.epatra.com/help_dfont.html

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Fonts.com

Hebrew fonts

http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/hebfonts.htm
http://oketz.com/fonts/

Hieroglyphs fonts

http://www.yare.org/egypt/glyphbasic%20fonts.htm
http://www.neferchichi.com/fonts.html

Hmong fonts

Pahawh Hmong
http://hmongscript.cwjmemhmong.info/download.html
http://www.pahauhhmong.org/downloadfont.html
http://www.hmongnet.org/hmongfonts/

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Inuktitut fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Inuktitut.html
http://www.nunavut.com
http://www.gov.nu.ca/english/font/
http://www.nunatsiaq.com/download.html
http://www.evertype.com/software/apple/

IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) fonts

http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/fonts.htm
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html

Irish uncial fonts

http://www.fainne.org/gaelchlo/
http://www.gis.net/~dansmith/fonts/celtic/
http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/rune/399/fonts.html

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Fonts.com

Japanese fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Japanese.html
http://mikachan.sourceforge.jp (handwriting)

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Kannada fonts

http://www.prajavani.net/fonts/download.htm
http://www.kannadaprabha.com/fonts/help.asp

Khmer fonts

http://www.camboday.com/fonts/
http://www.cambodia.org/fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Khmer.html
http://www.magma.ca/~sary/fonts.htm
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/Lang/Khmer.html
http://selapa.net/khmerfonts/

Klingon fonts

http://star-trek-fonts.fanspace.com/

Korean fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Korean.html
http://ssessesse.x-y.net/acsesarymenu/font/hanfont1.htm

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Lanna fonts

http://www.pinpia.com/indexeng.htm

Lao fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Lao.html
http://www.global.lao.net/lswin/index.htm
http://welcome.to/laofonts
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/Lang/Lao.html

Latin fonts

http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/

Lontara/Makasar fonts

http://alibataatpandesal.com/outbox.html

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Malayalam fonts

http://www.keralax.com/font/font.htm
http://varamozhi.sourceforge.net
http://www.clickeralam.org/product.html

Manchu fonts

http://sourceforge.net/projects/manchufont/

Mayan fonts

http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=mayan
http://www.masterstech-home.com/
http://www.geocities.com/mayanglyphs/

Mongolian fonts

Traditional Mongolian fonts
http://www.geocities.com/geseree/cms_gallery.html
http://www.mongoluls.net/font.shtml

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Fonts.com

Newari/Ranjana fonts

http://www.nepalnews.com.np/kantipur_font.htm
http://www.jwajalapa.com/download.html
http://www.geocities.com/ranjanafont/ranjanafont.htm

N'Ko fonts

http://www.nkoinstitute.com

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Ogham fonts

http://www.evertype.com/celtscript/ogfont.html
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ogham

Old Church Slavonic fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_CyrOCS.html
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/fonts/wincyrillic.html
http://www.davidzbiral.webzdarma.cz/cyrillicof.htm

Osmanya/Somali fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Osmanya.html

Oriya fonts

http://members.tripod.com/~sushantdash/fonts.htm
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Oriya.html

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Pahlavi fonts

http://www.iranchamber.com/scripts/pahlavi_script.php

Persian/Farsi fonts

http://iranianlanguages.com
http://www.isc.com.au/WebFonts/

'Phags-pa fonts

http://www.valdyas.org/conlang.html

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Romulan fonts

http://star-trek-fonts.fanspace.com/

Runes fonts

http://www.rune-fonts.co.uk

Hungarian Runes fonts

http://geocities.com/rovasiras/betuk/

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Sabaean fonts

http://www.ethiosys.com/typography/sabaean.html
http://www.chemie.uni-bremen.de/leibfritz/fonts/

Santali / Ol Cemet’ / Ol Chiki fonts

http://ncmurmu.tripod.com/ncmurmu/id40.html

Saurashtra fonts

http://www.palkar.org

Sharda fonts

Free Sharda font
http://koshur.org/contents.html

Shavian fonts

http://www.demeyere.com/Shavian/info.html
http://www.30below.com/~ethanl/fonts.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Shavian.html

Sindhi fonts

http://www.geocities.com/majidbhurgri/fonts.htm

Sinhala fonts

http://www.info.lk/slword/

Syriac fonts

http://www.bethmardutho.org/meltho/

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Tagalog (Baybayin) fonts

http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/fonts.htm

Fonts.com

Tagbanwa fonts

http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/download/tagbanwa.htm

Tai Lue fonts

http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/sildb

Tamil fonts

http://www.sooriyan.com/font/
http://www.info.lk/slword/news.htm
http://www.tamil.net/people/kiru/download.htm

Telugu fonts

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/2627/ttfonts.html
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/Lang/Telugu.html

Tengwar fonts

http://www.geocities.com/fontwizard/tengwar
http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at
http://www.gis.net/~dansmith/fonts

Thai fonts

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/seasite.htm

Thaana/Dhivehi (Maldivian) fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Thaana.html
http://www.haveeru.com.mv/downloads/fonts.zip
http://www.mitf.net/index.php/projects/thaana/font-unicode.html
http://all1.thefreebizhost.com/Fonts.htm

Tibetan fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tibetan.html
http://tsampa.org/tibetan/software/
http://www.nitartha.org/downloads.html
http://www.otani.ac.jp/cri/twrp/TLK/

Tifinagh fonts

http://www.chez.com/imazighen/assckltfngh.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tifinagh.html

Tolkienian fonts

Tengwar fonts
http://www.acondia.com/fonts/
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/downloads.htm
http://home.student.uu.se/j/jowi4905/fonts/annatar.html
http://www.sci.fi/%7Ealboin/tengwar.htm
http://tengwarformal.limes.com.pl
http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/tengwar_cursive.html
http://www.dafont.com/tengwar-gandalf.font
http://home.student.uu.se/j/jowi4905/fonts/tengtelc/index.php?subj=down

Sarati fonts
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/sarati.htm

Cirth fonts
http://www.acondia.com/fonts/index.html

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Unicode - multilingual fonts

http://www.wazu.jp
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html
http://www.slovo.info/unifonts.htm
http://greekfonts.teilar.gr

ALPHABETUM - a Unicode font specifically designed for ancient languages by Juan-José Marcos,
Professor of Classics, Plasencia, Spain.

Includes: Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Picene, Messapic) Classical & Medieval Latin, Medieval Nordic (Old Norse and Old Icelandic), Old & Middle English, Ancient Greek, Coptic, Old Church Slavonic, Glagolitic, Gothic, Runic, Ogham, Iberic, Celtiberic, Cypriot, Phoenician, Linear B, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Brahmi, Kharosthi, Avestan and Cuneiform Scripts (Ugaritic and Old Persian). Also Includes Characters For Latin-Based European Languages, Cyrillic-Based Languages, Devanagari, Bengali, Hiragana, Katakana and Bopomofo)
http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/~jmag0042/alphabet.html

Unifon fonts

http://www.unifon.org/unifon characters.htm

Urdu fonts

http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/mlk/470/download.htm
http://palestine-info-urdu.com/urdu/urdu.font.shtml

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Fonts.com

Vietnamese fonts

http://fontchu.com
http://www.vps.org
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vietunicode/

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Yi fonts

http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/silyi

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Making your own fonts

Tutorial on creating fonts
http://www.chank.com/howto/

Software for creating/editing fonts
http://users.breathe.com/l-emmett/
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
http://www.fontlab.com

Fontstruct - free, easy to use, online font creation tool
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com

Font Image Generator - turn your handwriting in a font
http://www.cheapfontgenerator.com

Software for generating keyboard layouts
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx
http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/
http://solair.eunet.yu/~janko/engdload.htm

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