Luc Devroye (copyright)
School of Computer Science
McGill
University
Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6
luc@cs.mcgill.ca
http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc
http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/fonts.html
Last update: Wed Sep 19 17:36:35 EDT 2001
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| Abdulamir L. Mryhij | alAlmaiha Software, Freezone,
Naser City, Cairo, Egypt. mailto:amryhij@intouch.com |
| Afghan-Reality | Free Pashto (Afghan) truetype font WL PashtoNaskh by Gamma Productions. |
| Afzal | Free font Afzal (truetype) by Tanzir Hussain. No more web page. |
| Ahmad Sha'ath | Arab calligrapher. |
| AIAP--Iranian Fonts | Download two Farsi truetype fonts, Pfont and Sepehr. |
| Al Fatihah: Amien World International | Free Arab font Amien.ttf by
Chairul Nurdin. mailto:chairulnurdin@geocities.com |
| Alagha Arabic Type | Andalus font sold by Glyph
Systems of Andover, MD. mailto:info@glyphsys.com |
| Alan M. Stanier | Alan M. Stanier from Essex
University has created the following metafonts: ams1, cherokee, cypriote,
dancers, estrangelo (ancient Syriac language), georgian, goblin, iching,
itgeorgian, ogham (on ancient Irish and pictish carvings), osmanian
(twentieth-century font used in Somalia), roughogham, shavian,
southarabian (for various languages circa 1500BC), ugaritic (ancient
cuneiform alphabet). More direct
access. mailto:alan@essex.ac.uk |
| Alan Wood's Unicode Resources | List of unicode fonts and font
links including stuff on WGL4, Arabic, Chinese, Chinese siimplified,
Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Yi. mailto:alan.wood@context.co.uk |
| Alcitech 2000 | Announcement of the alliance between Alcitech2000 (Syed Hyder's Montreal based company for developing Arabic script fonts), Tri_Vision and Nichimen. |
| Alex Khalil | Arabic script software list
maintainer. mailto:iskandar@eesun1.tamu.edu |
| Amr Haggag | Links to Arab word processors
and some fonts on Amr Haggag's home page. mailto:haggag@ceg.uiuc.edu |
| Apple Arabic Language Kit | Arabic kit for the Mac. Includes these Arabic fonts (typically truetype and type 1): AlBayan, Baghdad, Cairo, Geeza, Kufi, Nadeem, Thuluth; and these Persian fonts (all truetype and type 1): Amir, Ashfahan, Kamran, Mashad, NadeemFarsi, Tehran. |
| Apple's Arabic Language Kit | Pathetic quality from an aging
company. Lots of choice though: Arabic fonts AlBayan (TrueType and
Postscript), Baghdad (TrueType and Postscript), Cairo (bitmap), Geeza
(TrueType and Postscript), Kufi (TrueType and Postscript), Nadeem
(TrueType and Postscript), Thuluth (Postscript), Persian fonts Amir
(TrueType and Postscript), Ashfahan (TrueType and Postscript), Kamran
(TrueType and Postscript), Mashad (TrueType and Postscript), NadeemFarsi
(TrueType and Postscript), Tehran (bitmap). mailto:webmaster@apple.co.jp |
| Arabia Ware Benelux | Vendor of Mac and PC fonts for
several languages and from a variety of companies. Only commercial stuff
for Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, Tamazight,
Turkish, Greek, Indic, Thai, Eastern European, and Korean. mailto:awb@arabiaware.com |
| Arabic | Free fonts at Howard Berlin's
site: Arabic. Includes Djerba, Karbala (by Shaun Astarabadi for the
Digital Islamic Library Project), and Siddiqua TrueType fonts. mailto:berlin@hopi.dtcc.edu |
| Arabic calligraphy | General site with links. Check also here. |
| Arabic FAQ | Knut S. Vikor's Arabic
Macintosh page explains about the use of Arabic on Macs. mailto:knut.vikor@smi.uib.no |
| Arabic font for Unicode | Mark Leishers's BDF font is
24pt/100 dpi, and has about 600 glyphs. mailto:mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu |
| Arabic module for Pango | Pango is software for X/UNIX
for handling/editing Arabic, Urdu and Indic texts. This page by Karl
Koehler has some information and links on this free software. mailto:koehler@or.uni-bonn.de |
| Arabic Type 1 | Essay by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares about the challenges facing Arabic font designers. She teaches at the Graphic Design program of the American University of Beirut. |
| Arabismo | Arabic font links, with discussions in Spanish. |
| Arabs Internet Club | 29 New Arabic truetype fonts: AbadiMT, AF_Abha, AF_Ahsa, AF_Aseer, AF_Buryidah, AF_Ed-Dammam, AF_Diwani, AF_El-Hada, AF_Hijaz, AF_Jeddah, AF_Jizan, AF_El-Kharj, AF_El-Khobar, AF_Najed, AF_Quseem, AF_Riyadh, AF_Tabook, AF_Tholoth, AF_Unizah, AkhbarMT, AkhbarMT-Bold, AlexeiCopperplateITC, Algerian, Al_KhatNormal (Al_Khat cfamily by Hisham Diab and Hassan Loutfy), Al_KhatItalic, AGA-Arabesque, AGA-ArabesqueDesktop. |
| ArabTex by Klaus Lagally | If you use LaTeX and want the
top of the line in Arabic fonts (and free too!), get the metafont that
comes with ArabTex: Professor Klaus Lagally's ArabTeX is a LaTeX extension
for high-quality arabic writing. It is free. CTAN
archive. mailto:lagally@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de |
| ArabTex by Klaus Lagally (alternate FTP site) | CTAN site. |
| AramediA Group (Boston and Beirut) | George Hallak's outfit
specializing in Arabic Fonts for Microsoft Arabic Windows 95 and Sakhr
Windows. Glyph's Arabic Fonts (16) for Arabic Win 95, 3 in 1 package
59.00. Sakkal's Arabic & Islamic Calligraphic Designs (PC or Mac)
$49.95. Sakhr's Modern Arabic True Type Font is $30.00. Sakhr's Al-Jawaher
Fonts Scalable (Khuttout Tajmiliah) is $50.00. ASC's True Type Font Pack
one for Ar. Win 3.x is $30.00. Programmers/Localizers/Consultants
Arabization & Software Center, Arabic Educational Multimedia. Jawaher
Al Horof 4.0 (Editor): Arabic Editor for Design Applications. Arabic
Fonts. Arabic Keyboard Tutor. The Jawaher Fonts Program provides more
than fifty different font styles with all available effects, such as bold,
italics, shading and molding. The Jawaher Fonts can be operated under the
programs Ustaz 3.1 and Desktop Publishing 3.0 with no special operating
requirements in working under Microsoft Arabic Windows and Sakhr Windows.
68USD. Other font families: Sakhr, Kofi, Naskh, Reqaa, Akhbar,
Persian. mailto:gnhbos@aol.com |
| ARP's free text utilities (MS-DOS) and TTF-fonts | Two TrueType fonts: ARP Numfont
replaces characters by ASCII values, and Celtic-Iberian is just that. All
fonts by Anton van de Repe. mailto:vdrepe@arp.nl |
| Art and Fonts by Sean (was: the Black box) | Sean BW showcases great Arab,
Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. In addition, his free fonts include
Thorns, Hours in the Rain, The Tomb, Vampyres Garden, and Seven Waves
Sighs Salome. Very nice gothic and medieval style creations. Many caps,
great historical fonts, with sources discussed. I wish the designer would
divulge his name. mailto:codeinefreak@yahoo.com |
| Ashurbanipal Software | About 60 free Arabic truetype
fonts by Ashur Cherry at Ashurbanipal Software. mailto:ashurbanipal@xoommail.com |
| Asiasoft (Liwal Group) | Sells word processing software
for Arabic, Pashto, Farsi and Urdu fonts for Windows 95 and Windows NT.
The 300-800 USD packages include some TrueType fonts in these
languages. mailto:asiasoft@liwal.net |
| Asiatype | Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Urdu fonts
at Asiatype in Pakistan. Commercial. mailto:asiatype@liwal.net |
| Baharestan | Free Arabic fonts Irsys, Sepehr. |
| Beautiful Arabic Faces | At Fontworld, Arabic and
Persian faces. Type 1 for Mac and Windows. Commercial. mailto:fontworld@aol.com |
| Bitstream Cyberbit | From their web page:
"Bitstream® Cyberbit is our award-winning international font. Based on one
of our most popular and readable type designs (Dutch 801 BT), it includes
all the typographic characters for most of the world's major languages.
Cyberbit is now available! The product release includes the roman weight
of Dutch 801 BT, a "serif" font. (A serif font has small finishing strokes
at the end of the main stems, arms, and tails of characters, while a
sanserif font does not.) The font is in TrueType® format for Windows 95®
and Windows NT. Future releases will provide support for "sanserif"
typefaces, other platforms, other font formats, and even more languages.
Bitstream Cyberbit is a work in progress. Bitstream is now distributing
the roman weight of Cyberbit, free of charge, over the Internet! Remember,
this release is in TrueType format for Windows 95 and Windows NT". If link
does not work, try here,
or here.
Has Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Korean, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese (simplified
and traditional), Thai, Vietnamese, and Latin. mailto:info@bitstream.com |
| Boutros International | Boutros calligraphic Arabic
fonts (sold by Glyph Systems) are fonts designed by "Boutros
International" a group of experts headed by Mourad and Arlette Boutros.
These beautiful TrueType Fonts are designed to work in Microsoft's
Arabic Windows versions 3.1 / 95 / 98 / NT as well as on the Mac OS with
an Arabic Language Kit. These fonts include Boutros Decorative Kufic,
Boutros Display, Boutros Koufic, Boutros MB Naskh, Boutros Modern, Boutros
New Koufic Modern, Boutros Simplified Naskh, Boutros Asifa, Boutros Farah,
Boutros Farasha, Boutros Fares, Boutros Najm. See also here. mailto:info@glyphsys.com |
| Catmando | Himalb: free Arabic truetype font. |
| Chinese Desktop Publishing | Commercial Persian, Arabic and Hebrew language kits. |
| Classical Text Editor (CTE) | A project by Stefan Hagel at
the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, CTE is a universal (Windows,
Mac) text editor for many languages. It has a battery of fonts for various
languages, such as Hebrew and Arab. mailto:Stefan.Hagel@oeaw.ac.at |
| CLGraph | Arab calligraphy pages with particular sections on the Koufi, Duwani and Tughraa scripts. |
| CLGraph | Arab calligraphy pages with particular sections on the Koufi, Duwani and Tughraa scripts. |
| Computer Corporation | Company marketing Urdu language
software and text editors. No fonts, as far as I can tell. mailto:computercorp@hotmail.com |
| ComStar: Arabic Kit for the Mac | Arabic/Farsi kit
(commercial). mailto:chinabus@gy.com |
| ComStar: List of Links | List of Arabic font links at
ComStar. mailto:info@gy.com |
| Cosmorama | Esoteric fonts and special
symbols by Kenneth Hirst. Includes shareware and full version ($$) fonts
such as Astro, Alchemy, AmericanIndian dingbats, arabic, Flowchart,
SpecialPi, Sequoyah (for Cherokee), CircleBullets, ArrowBullets, Siddiqua
(Arabic: Laser Printing Solutions. P.O. Box 5362, Irvine, CA 92716). Some of his fonts. Alternate
URL. mailto:kenneth_hirst@compuserve.com |
| Dari/Farsi fonts | At the Dari Corner, find several free Dari/Farsi fonts for contemporary Dari Afghan writing: Forouzan, Khorshid. |
| DariSoft | Commercial Dari, Pashto, Arabic
and Urdu fonts. Company based in New Farm, Queensland, Australia. mailto:darisoft@hotmail.com |
| DecoType | Thomas Milo (DecoType,
Amsterdam) is a specialist in Arabic, Turkic and Slavic linguistics and
develops Arabic font technology. He has worked on the MS Arabic fonts. His
company's beautiful fonts sell for 125 USD: P.O. Box 55518, 1007 NA
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I heard Thomas talk about Arabic fonts at the
1998 RIDT in Saint-Malo: a masterful performance, entertaining and
insightful from start to finish. DecoType contributes fonts and Arabic
Calligraphy applications to Microsoft Office Arabic Edition; to Adobe
PageMaker Middle East DecoType provides a special interface for
Calligraphic typesetting; to the MacOS 9 it contributes Arabic fonts.
Bio at
ATypI. mailto:tmilo@decotype.com |
| Delta Computer Homepage | Font vendor: has OCRA and B,
APL, LetterGothic, Courier, Script, Arabic, Katakana, Korean, and Russian
fonts. mailto:jsealy@deltacomputer.com |
| Digitek | Baha Yaaqob or Taoufiq: 7631
Leesburg Pike, Suite B, Falls Church, VA 22043-2520, USA. mailto:digitek326@aol.com |
| Diman | Cyrillic, Greek, Arab, Hebrew and Turkish fonts. Free. |
| Djerba | Free rectangular-looking
"simplified" Arabic font by Peter Wiegel. mailto:100552.3444@compuserve.com |
| Eastern Language Systems of Vazhe Negar | Vazhe Negar is a registered
trade mark of Eastern Languages (UK-based). Contact Habib Yosri. mailto:info@easternlanguages.com |
| Ecological Linguistic | Arabic Type 1 fonts: P.O. Box
15156, Washington, D.C., 20003 mailto:ecoling@applelink.apple.com |
| Fareed Abd Raheem Al-Ali | Kuwaiti calligrapher. |
| Farhad Abdolian | "Persian font", a Monotype
truetype font with both Arabic and Latin characters, modified by Seema
Consulting/Farhad Abdolian. mailto:farhad@algonet.se |
| Farhan | Offers free, fully working Urdu
windows software. It is a complete DTP system with abiltity to use True
Type fonts, paste graphics from any windows program, spell check, OLE
2.0. mailto:comcrop@hd1.vsnl.net.in |
| Farsi font | A free Farsi truetype font. |
| Farsi Fonts | Sepehr truetype font family. |
| Farsi Info | Jasmin truetype font, copyright
Farsi Info. mailto:info@farsiinfo.de |
| Farsi (Persian) | Free fonts at Howard Berlin's
site. mailto:berlin@hopi.dtcc.edu |
| FarsiTEX | Farsi TEX program and fonts.
Page by Hassan Abolhassani. 1MB worth of zipped Farsi fonts. mailto:ahassan@cit.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp |
| FarsiTeX fonts | FarsiTeX fonts in a 1MB zipped font file. |
| Fax-away Urdu website | Free Urdu TT font by Adil
Rehan, Karachi, Pakistan. mailto:adil@safeer.com |
| Fereydoon Moshiri | Sepehr truetype fonts. |
| Fonts in Cyberspace-Non Roman Fonts | Pick up several Windows and Mac fonts here. |
| fonts.themes.org (Arabic Fonts) | Some Arabic BDF fonts
("mulearabic"). mailto:feedback@themes.org |
| Fontworld | Quality-crafted multiple
language fonts. Based in New York and run by Israel Seldowitz, they
sell Arabic, Russian, Greek, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Baltic and Central
European faces. mailto:fontworld@aol.com |
| Fontworld (Arabic) | Arabic Pagemaker. Includes four
Arabic fonts plus a special calligraphy Arabic font supporting over 300
ligatures. Also available is Adobe Arabic PhotoShop. Also makes many
Arabic and Persian fonts in PostScript, and does custom work. mailto:fontworld@aol.com |
| Freelang | French site for various non-Latin language fonts. |
| Ftp-Server Rechenzentrum Uni Heidelberg | University of Heidelberg
archive with well-documented fonts and font software. Has copies of
SmartFont (Windows font previwer), TTFPlus (16-bit font management),
TipoMaker (typebook maker), JobSpecific16 v2.01 (Postscript font
assigner), Softy. Siddiqua (Arab truetype font by Laser Printing
Solutions, Irvine, CA). About ten morse code fonts. mailto:ftp-admin@ftp.urz.uni-heidelberg.de |
| Gamma Productions | Arabic Type 1 fonts. mailto:72567.1343@compuserve.com |
| geckil.com | Arabic font links. |
| Georg Popp | Munich-based designer of
Sindbad, a dingbat font of ornaments found in Oman. mailto:oman@cube.net |
| Globatec | Free Arabic truetype font
called Globatec. mailto:mail@globatec.com |
| Glyph Systems | Font vendor. Custom font design
in most languages. MS Arabic Windows distributor in US: additional fonts
for $79. P.O. Box 134, Andover, MA 01810, USA. Also sells Hebrew fonts.
Seels for Agfa, Alagha Associates, Arthur Baker Designs, ITC, Maverick
Designs, Boutros International, and Sakkal Designs. Headed by Steve Reef.
For 89USD, get 16 beautiful Arabic fonts: ITC Boutros Rokaa, Koufi,
Ousbough, Arabic Borders, Diwani, Architect, ITC Boutros Modern Kufic, AGA
Andalus (some of these in multiple weights). For 72USD, get 13 Hebrew
fonts (some in multiple weights): Khadeysh, Ktav, Rashi, and Mesorati. The
latter fonts, plus Diwani and Architect, are original fonts by Glyph Systems. mailto:info@glyphsys.com |
| Haig Der Ohanian | Torontonian who sells two
Armenian fonts at 15 USD a piece. Also, four Arabic fonts. mailto:deroh@interlog.com |
| Hassan Massoudy | Arabic calligraphy like you've
never seen before. mailto:hassan.massoudy@wanadoo.fr |
| Hawzah | Free Farsi font Noor.ttf. mailto:NOOR@noornet.net |
| Hieroglyphische Links | Hieroglyphic and Arabic font links. |
| High quality Arabic fonts | About 100 (seemingly free) TrueType fonts including the following Arabic families: Traditional_Arabic, Simplified_Arabic, Arabic_Transparent, all from Agfa; AkhbarMT; Andalus (by Mohammed Alagha); the DecoType Classic Naskh Family of Fonts by Thomas Milo; the DecoType Classic Thuluth Family of Fonts by thomas Milo; MonotypeKoufi; MudirMT. |
| Howard Berlin's foreign font archive | Dr. HumBug, Delaware Technical
& Community College. Foreign fonts archive. A fantastic site with
nearly all foreign (non-roman) scripts represented. mailto:berlin@hopi.dtcc.edu |
| Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares | Huda is collecting information
for a resource book on typographers specializing in Arabic. mailto:mailto:smitsy@compuserve.com |
| ICB fonts | Iqraa: Free Arabic truetype
font by ICB Fonts. mailto:sedki@vt.edu |
| Imoir.org | The following truetype fonts from Siansoft: Titr-s-Bold (Persian, 1993), Traffic-s-Bold (Persian, 1993), Traffic-s (Persian, 1993), Zar-s (Persian, 1995), Zar-Bold (Latin&Persian, 1997), Zar-Normal (Latin&Persian, 1997). Plus Monotype's PersianFont, and Bitstream's Zurich-Black-Extended-BT and Zurich-Extended-BT. |
| Iran Vision Fonts | Two free truetype fonts, iranVision1, IranVision2. |
| iranet | A free mixed Farsi/Roman font based on Times. Truetype. |
| Iranian Cultural and Information Center | Farsi fonts and editors. |
| Iransys | Download Iransys. |
| IRNA | Ten Arabic truetype fonts called Irnafont: COMPBLD, Comp_3, Froz_1, Naz_bld, Nazan, Nazan_s, Tradi, Yaghot_bld, Yekta, Yekta_bld. |
| ISC: Web Fonts | Free ParsNegarII fonts for all platforms, and in Persian, arabic and Urdu flavors. ISC stands for International Systems Consultancy. Also, a Kurdish and Assyrian web font. |
| Islamic Calligraphy with Mohamed Zakariya | Mohamed Zakariya gives us an Islamic calligraphy lesson. |
| Islamic Downloads Archive | Great site with the following free Arabic truetype fonts: MCS-Jeddah, MCS-Hijon, MCS-Modern-E, MCS-Diwany, MCS-Islamic-Art, MCS-Basmalah, MCS-Mix, Islamic font (four dingbats), Al-Kharashi, Andalus (by Mohammed Alagha), Baloon, mamloky. |
| Islamic Downloads Archive | |
| Jaghbub Font Package | On the Arabic Mac site in
Norway kept by Knut S. Vikor. Three fonts for transcription of Arabic,
Jaghbub, Koufra and Bairut. mailto:knut.vikor@smi.uib.no |
| Jamal Enterprise (Badrul Vajihuddin) | 50 TrueType fonts: P.O. Box
8061, Fremont CA 94537-8061, USA. mailto:badrul@netcom.com |
| jasarat.com | Free Urdu.ttf, made by Adil
Rehan, Karachi, Pakistan. mailto:adil@safeer.com |
| Karbala font | Free Arabic font developed by Ahlul Bayt for the Digital Islamic Library Project (DILP). |
| Katuwa Suryaya 2000 | SyriacWriter 2000 comes with Syriac, English, Persian, and Arabic fonts. |
| Knut S. Vikør: Arabic Macintosh site | Centre for Middle Eastern and
Islamic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. Fantastic page on Arabic
fonts and font software. mailto:knut.vikor@smi.uib.no |
| Konouz | Arabic font links. |
| Kurdish Virtual library | Kurdish/Arabic/Farsi font links. |
| LangBox International Arabic Support for UNIX | Arabic support for UNIX
(commercial product), including some font solutions. Code set and font set
include the following: Codeset ISO 8859-6, ASMO 449 plus, ASMO 708,
Fontset iso-8859-6-8, Fontset iso-8859-6-16. mailto:sales@gulfusa.com |
| LaserSindhi fonts from Linguist's Software | TrueType and Type 1 fonts for Macintosh computers. Four fonts, 100 USD. Sindhi is spoken in Pakistan, where it is written in the Arabic script with the addition of several letters to accommodate special sounds. Sindhi is also one of the constitutional languages of India. |
| Layout | From Lebanon: sellers of
ArabicXT, Kalimat, and Zakhrafat. They also sell a CD-ROM (v1.1) with 150
Arabic fonts. mailto:Layout@dm.net.lb |
| leb.net | FTP archive of Arab files, including arabtex and arabfont. |
| Linguist's Software | LaserArabic and Farsi
commercial fonts. Gene Sorensen: P.O.Box 580, Edmonds, WA 98020-0580, USA.
Four fonts: Lateefi, Kitabi, Nargisi, Sarmast. mailto:fonts@linguistsoftware.com |
| Linotype | Arabic faces in the Linotype library: AlHarf AlJadid (Ismet Chanbour, 1985), Hassan (H. Sidahmed, 1993), Hisham (Ahmed Maged, 1993), Karim (Tim Holloway, 1994), Lotus (Linotype staff, 1978), Maged (Linotype staff, 1956, 1987), Mariam (Ismet Chanbour, 1992), Mofid Mahdi (Mofid Mahdi, 1985), Nazanin (linotype staff, 1978), Qadi (linotype staff, 1985), Vakout (linotype staff, 1911). |
| Linotype Arabic types | Commercial Arabic fonts at
Linotype: Ahmed, Al Harf Al Jadid, Hassan, Hisham, Karim, Lotus, Maged,
Mariam, Mofid Mahdi, Nazanin, Qadi, Yakout. mailto:info@fonts.de |
| Linotype-Hell | Some good Arabic fonts in Type1
format (some of them designed by Walter Tracy). Large type foundry: 425
Oser Avenue, Hauppauge, NY 11788 9890, USA. Other links: Linotype-Hell AG, Linotype-Hell UK, Linotype-Hell Japan and Linotype-Hell North America. Check also this link. mailto:info@linotype.com |
| Loai Gammo | Was working with Al-Alamiah and
might have access to their (Sakhr) fonts. mailto:louay@rosebud.turing.toronto.edu |
| Lyubov Kuznetsova | Moscow-based designer of the Type Directors Club 1999 award-winning design PT Kufi Arabic (1997), available from ParaType. Also did Literaturnaya there, around 1940. Specializes in Arabic type. Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic face Academy (1989) (a modern version based on ideas of Berthram G. Goodhue and Morris Fuller Benton). CV ast bukvaraz. |
| Mac OS Farsi text encoding | |
| Mac OS text encoding: Arabic | |
| MacOS versions of IRNA fonts | About ten Mac versions of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) fonts are downloadable from this site maintained by George Maschke. |
| Mazar Fonts | Free Farsi truetype fonts: BadrMazar, CompsetMazar, DivaniMazar, FerdosiMazar, GrandKufiMazar, HusseiniMazar, KoodakMazar, LotusMazar, MajalleMazar, MajallaCondensedMazar, MajiidMazar, MajiidShadedMazar, MashghMazar, MitraBoldMazar, MitraMazar, MudirMazar, NajahMazar, NasimMazar, NaskhMazar, NazaninMazar, RagheMazar, ReyhanMazar, ShafighMazar, SiavashMazar, SinaMazar, TawfighMazar, TawfigOutlineMazar, ThulthMazar, TitrMazar, TraficMazar. These fonts, which have a copyright notice of Glyph Systems and Monotype, 1993, require special software as they make heavy use of the GSUB tables for ligatures. |
| Mirza Ali | Farsi and Arab font links. |
| Monotype Non-Latin Fonts | Monotype sells fonts for the
following languages: Amharic, Aksara Kaganga, Arabic, Armenian, Balinese,
Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Coptic, Devanagari (Hindi/Marathi), Farsi,
Georgian, Glagolitic, Gujerathi, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hebrew, Japanese,
Javanese, Jawi, Kannada, Korean, Laotian, Lontarak, Malayalam, Old
Bulgarian, Oriya, Pushto, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Surat Pustaha, Syriac, Tamil,
Telugu, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese. mailto:Tech@monotype.com |
| Monotype Non-Latin Fonts | Monotype markets some Arabic fonts. |
| Monotype Typography Inc. | A major type foundry, set up in
1887 by Tolbert Lanston. Some very good Arabic fonts in Type 1 format.
Some of the fonts are: Akhbar normal and bold, Boutros Kufic light and
medium, Boutros Setting light, medium and bold, Kufi bold, Ladhkar Ghazal
normal and bold, Mudir, Naskh normal and bold, Zohar normal and bold. Agfa
took over Monotype in 1998 to form Agfa-Monotype. Monotype
history. mailto:sales@agfamonotype.com |
| MT WorldType arabic | Info on Arabic fonts at Monotype, which sells many fonts. Interesting calligraphic design: Noori Nastaliq typeface and ligature system was designed by Mr. Mirza Jamil T.I. Because of its calligraphic nature, Noori Nastaliq is not available as a standard font for the common hardware platforms. The addressing of this font requires specially customized software and ligature access tables. |
| Multilingual Macintosh Resources: Arabic | Andreas Prilop's Arabic font
links. mailto:prilop@altavista.net |
| Music of the Ancient Near East | Richard Dumbrill's page. Find a
free font Akkadian-1, and a commercial family, RD-Akkadian (cuneiform
signs). Plus RD-Times Scholar (commercial). Furthermore, custom font
design for Syriac, Ugaritic, Hittite cuneiforms, South Arabian,
Phoenician. mailto:ricdum@aol.com |
| Neda Rayaneh Download Center | Persian font Sepehr (by
Monotype). mailto:svahid@neda.net |
| Official Home of Gerdsooz | Ahmed Alavi and Mahyar
Rahmatian offer various free formats of the Farsi font Gerdsooz. mailto:aaalavi@ingr.com |
| Orient | Cyrillic and Arabic truetype fonts: WL-ArabicNaskh (Gamma Productions, 1995), Diacritics (by ParaGraph, a nice Cyrillic font), SymbolMT, TimesNRCyrMT, TimesNRCyrMT-Inclined. |
| ParaType | The main digital type foundry
from Russia. It also develops and distributes font oriented and
localization software. Products include FastFont, a simple TrueType
builder, ParaNoise, a builder for PostScript fonts with random contours,
FontLab, a universal font editor and ScanFont, a font editor with scanning
module. Random, customized fonts. Multilingual fonts including, Latin,
Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek, Georgian and Hebrew fonts for Macintosh and
Windows. Catalog.
Contact Maxim Zhukov. In the ParaType Store,
you can buy Academy, Pragmatica, Newton, Courier, Futura, Petersburg,
Jakob, ITC Studio Script, ITC Zapf Chancery, Karolla, Inform, Hafiz
(Arabic), Kolheti (Georgian), Benzion (Hebrew). Most are Unicode fonts. Free
ParaType fonts include Courier Cyrillic, Pushkin (handwriting font),
and a complete font set for Cyrillic (KOI8, DOS, ISO8859-5 and Mac
encodings). Type designers: Vladimir Yefimov, Tagir Safaev, Lyubov
Kuznetsova, Manvel Schmavonyan, Alexander Tarbeer. mailto:fonts@paratype.com |
| ParsNegar | Free Win95,Win3 utility for right-to-left scripts, contextual analysis. |
| Persian Calligraphy by Yadolah Kaboly-Khansari | Gorgeous Nastalique writing. |
| Persian Fonts | About ten free Farsi truetype fonts: Nasim (by Aidin Tavakkol, Rostam, Sepehr and Yekta (Monotype), and WEB_Yazd (from The Apadana Farsi WEB Fonts Collection by John Yaralian). Also, Web Rostam, Web Thulth, Web Trafic, Iran System Navid. |
| Persian Internet Tools | Two free Farsi truetype fonts, Khorshid and Forouzan, developed by Eastern Language Design for the Iran-e-azad Organization. |
| Persian internet Tools | Some Persian fonts can be downloaded here: Forouzan, and Khorshid, both by Eastern Languages design (1996). PC and Mac. |
| Phontografics | 100-font Swedish archive. Has
an Arabic shareware
font section. In the Asian font section,
grab Arakawa (katakana), and a few far-from-complete Chinese fonts. mailto:eyeball@kurir.net |
| Quran Standard | The Quran Standard truetype font, by Micro Systems International (1994). |
| R.H. Ansari | Archive with the following Arabic truetype fonts: AGA-Arabesque (nice Arabic ornaments and calligraphic sets made in 1994 by MAK Alagha, Applied Graphic Arts), Akhbar-MT-Bold, Akhbar-MT, DecoType-Naskh, DecoType-Naskh-Special, DecoType-Naskh-Variants, DecoType-Naskh-Swashes, DecoType-Thuluth, DecoType-Naskh-Extensions (all DecoType fonts by Thomas Milo), Monotype-Koufi-Bold, Mudir-MT, Quran-Standard, Quran-Madina (all Quran fonts by Micro Systems International, 1994), Simplified-Arabic-Backslanted-Bold-Italic (Agfa, 1993), Traditional-Arabic-Backslanted-Bold-Italic (Agfa, 1990), Urdu (by Adil Rehan from Karachi, 1997). |
| Rumi Gallery Persian Calligraphy | Iranian calligrapher Ali
Rouhfar at work. mailto:alrou@juno.com |
| Sakhr Software | Font package: Al-Khatout Al-Haditha ($30) offers 53 true type fonts, plus shading, shadow, and outlined styles. For more information, contact Digitek at 180033sakhr or fax 7038830137. |
| Sakkal Design | Arab calligraphy pages by Mamoun Sakkal. Recommended visit. Has particularly nice description of the cursive styles like Naskh, Thuluth, Muhaqqaq, Nastaliq, and riq'a. Mamoun Sakkal's company touches on every aspect of Arab calligraphy and design. Calligraphy and font services. DecoType Professional Naskh (31 truetupe fonts, available in Word 6.0 for Windows). |
| Shahrvand Font | A two-weight TrueType Arab font family called Shahrvand, by Eastern Languages. Free. |
| Shariati | A free Farsi truetype font. |
| siamakr | Two Kurdish truetype fonts: Kurdish web by International Systems Consultancy (1998) and K-Dylan-Apo traditional Arabic by Medine-Samht (1993). |
| SouthArabian | From Essex University, Alan M.
Stanier's metafont for South Arabian. % This font was used for several
languages in Southern Arabia in the second millenium BC. mailto:alan@essex.ac.uk |
| Southern Software Inc. (SSi) | SSi sells foreign fonts for
Arabic, Urdu, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Baltic, Burmese, Cherokee,
Cyrillic, Cree, Simplified Chinese, Ethiopian, Inuktitut, Gaelic, IPA,
Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Mayan. Farsi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Syriac, South
Arabian, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ugaritic, and Vietnamese. Plus
musical dingbats. Of course, they did not make a single of these fonts
themselves. mailto:pking@flnet.com |
| Summer Institute of Linguistics | Nastaliq font for QuickDraw GX.
Available as shareware from Jonathan Kew. It allows Arabic, Urdu, and
similar languages to be written using the elegant Nastaliq style of
calligraphy. URW
write-up. mailto:no.spam@here.please |
| Taexna Studio | Ablikim Sulayman's page in
which you can download his Taexna truetype font for the Uyghur
language. mailto:taexna@yahoo.com |
| The Arabic Fonts HomePage for Arabic MS Windows | Links to Arabic fonts. mailto:fonts@unizah.net |
| The Arabic Macintosh | Arabic on the Mac, demystified
by Knut S. Vikør. mailto:knut.vikor@smi.uib.no |
| The Universal Word Software | c/o Unipro Inc., 45 River Drive
South, #105, Jersey City, NJ 07310, USA. mailto:uniproinc@aol.com |
| Tooraj Enyati | Creator of the beautiful Pars
Ziba font (free). mailto:tooraj@rdt.monash.edu.au |
| Unicode BDF fonts | Mark Leisher at the Computing
Research Lab of New Mexico State University has developed a set of (free)
proportional, 12pt, 100dpi BDF (bitmap) fonts primarily for use with dense
technical papers on the Web and with X11. The fonts contain about 4050
glyphs so far, including approximately 450 for coverage of the contextual
forms needed for the Unicode Arabic blocks, U+0600-U+06FF. Finished are a
Devanagari Unicode BDF font, and an Arabic Unicode BDF font. Quite a bit
of Unicode is supported, except for the following major blocks: 1. The
Hangul block. 2. The Han block (Hanja,Hanzi,Kanji,Chu Han). 3. The Indic
scripts. 4. The Tibetan script. mailto:mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu |
| Unicode chart for Arabic | |
| Urdu Channel | Syed Adnan Ahmed's page on Urdu
word processing (Sadaf word processor). Download the free Kaatib
font. mailto:urdu@online.no |
| URDU Khat-e-Naqsh | Urdu font Khat-e-Naqsh for Mac, PC and Unix. |
| Urdu Page by Shehzad | Urdu word processing site by Shehzad Ashiq Ali of Ashiq Enterprises in Lahore, Pakistan. Has the fonts UrduNaqsh (truetype, Nastalique and ordinary version, made in 1999). PC, Mac and UNIX versions of these fonts, all created by Shehzad himself. |
| Urdu Web | One free Urdu font, Umair I. Installation instructions. |
| Urdu.ttf | Free Urdu truetype font by Adil
Rehan, Karachi, Pakistan. mailto:adil@safeer.com |
| Vlad Atanasiu | Two free Times New Roman fonts
for the transliteration of Arabic. mailto:atanasiu@mailexcite.com |
| Wics | Sidus Micro Technology from
Dubai, UAE, is involved in OpenType font development, for Arabic and other
languages. Contact: Waiel H. Ali. mailto:wics@hotmail.com |
| Windows archive | Has arabttf and baghdad2. |
| xnsh | New Arabic font for ArabTeX,
translated to type 1 format by Taco Hoekwater. mailto:taco.hoekwater@wkap.nl |
| Yamada Hindi-Urdu WWW Guide | Yamada Language Center,
University of Oregon: page with links for Hindi and Urdu fonts. mailto:ylc@darkwing.uoregon.edu |
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