Luc Devroye (copyright)
School of Computer Science
McGill University
Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6
luc@cs.mcgill.ca
http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/index.html
http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/fonts.html
Last update: Thu Apr 10 00:18:15 EDT 2003
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Luc Devroye (copyright) |
| AACF | The association of Assyro-Chaldeans in France offers an archive of Assyrian fonts, including CarloAtor (1997, Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), GabrialAtor (1997, Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), Issa-&GilianaClassic; (1997), Nisibus (1998, a font modified by Tony Khoshaba), SPEdessa (1998, based on Leiden Peshitta, Estrangela). |
| AAR | Free truetype fonts from Scholars Press: SPTiberian, SPDamascus, SPEzra (all Hebrew), SPIonic, SP Doric (both Greek), SPEdessa (Syriac), SPAchmim (Coptic), SP Caesarea, and SP Atlantis (translitaration). Alternate URL. |
| Agfa Monotype | Agfa Monotype's WorldType font catalogue. The company sells fonts for the following languages: Amharic, Aksara Kaganga, Arabic, Armenian, Balinese, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Coptic, Devanagari (Hindi/Marathi/Nepali), 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. |
| Akkadian | John Heise's page on Akkadian. He created the cfi family of cuneiform metafonts, with signs given in New Assyrian notation. |
| 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. Email to alan@essex.ac.uk |
| Archaeological Fonts (by Bonneville Electronics) | Mayan, hieroglyphs, cuneiform, Syriac, etc.: commercial site located in West Clinton, Utah. Demos for downloading. Etruscan, old Greek, old Hebrew, archeological fonts. Run by Scott T. Smith from Clinton, Utah. Plus Native American dingbats. Email to archaeologyfonts@hotmail.com |
| archaic | Peter R. Wilson's metafont code (2000) for many archaic languages: Proto-Semitic (16bc), Phoenician (10bc), Greek (6bc), Greek (4bc), Etruscan (8bc), Futharc (Anglo-Saxon, 6ad), Hieroglyphics (30bc), Linear B (15bc), Ugaritic Cuneiform (13bc), Cypriot (9bc), Old Persian (5bc). Peter also developed metafont fonts for bookhands. Email to peter.r.wilson@boeing.co |
| 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. Email to vdrepe@arp.nl |
| Assyrian Names Project | The Issa-&GilianaClassic; truetype fonts (1997) are for Syriac. At Fred Aprim's Assyrian Names project. Email to Fred@atour.com |
| Assyria's Letters | Assletters: Assyria's letters, Estrangelo truetype fonts. |
| Bendt Alster | PC-Mac compatible true type fonts primarily intended for the transliteration of Akkadian and Sumerian cuneiform texts. Bendt Alster's page. The fonts made by him from Monotype fonts include the BaBo family (BookmanOldStyle), the BaCesPsB family (CenturySchoolbook), the BaTak family (TimesAkkad), BaGarUni (Garamond Unicode). |
| CAC products page | Ishar2.ttf is an Eastern Assyrian Script font developed for the Assyrian Academic Societiy's Dictionary Project. Tony Koshaba's page. Email to khoshaba@xnet.com |
| CalSemitic | CalSemitic TR and CalSyriacTR (1998) truetype fonts. |
| Emerald City Fontworks | Run by Steven Lundeen from Seattle, ECF does customized handwriting / signature / company logo fonts, for 39 dollars per font. Shareware and freeware fonts, such as Augie, Codex, Decadence, Intimacy, Intimacy Deux, JD (1997, handwriting font), Movieola, Spanky's Bungalow, Syriac, the beautiful handwriting face TallPaul, Teen Spirit, Curtain Call, Stillframes, Birds A, Webster. ECF also makes your handwriting into a font. They offer some clipart fonts of the first quality. There are three mollusk fonts, three musical instrument fonts, three insect fonts, three reptile fonts and four mythology fonts, for example! Some of the clipart fonts are free. Handwriting fonts like j.d., Augie, Skeetch and TallPaul are well worth a try. Display freeware fonts include Decadence, Intimacy, Codex and the Spanky family. Many fonts have both T1 and TT versions for both Mac and Windows. The shareware fonts are of the display type, like Moonpie, Puzzleface, Thump, Sputnyk, KingsCourt, Festus, Daddio, Chester Shag, King's Court and the Pookie family. And know a knot font. Email to ecf@speakeasy.org |
| estrangelo | From Essex University, Alan M. Stanier's "Estrangelo" metafont. Estrangelo is the alphabet used for writing ancient Syriac. Alternate site. Email to alan@essex.ac.uk |
| Freelang.net | French site for various non-Latin language fonts. Run by Beaumont. Email to webmaster@freelang.net |
| Gary S. Dykes | Gary S. Dykes made three free public domain truetype fonts: Coptic44 (for all Sahidic and Bohairic typography), Syriac44 (Estrangelo), Greek44 (over 200 kerned pairs; some Byzantine glyphs). Email to galerenee@onemain.com |
| George Kiraz | Designer with Paul Nelson of the Syriac font EstrangeloEdessa (2000, Syriac Computing Institute). This font was used in the Unicode charts. |
| HP Soft Fonts | Stig Norin's free HP Deskjet soft fonts include Syriac fonts. |
| 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. |
| Isipola | Finnish archive. The 7.2MB font file has many .fon files, as well as the Microsoft truetype collection, EstrangeloEdessa (by Paul Nelson and George Kiraz, 2000, Syriac Computing Institute), ITC Franklin Gothic, Gautami (Microsoft, 2001), Latha (Microsoft, 2001), LucidaSansUnicode, MV Boli (Agfa-Monotype, 2001), Mangal (Microsoft, 2001), PalatinoLinotype (1998, a Unicode font), Raavi (Microsoft, 2001), Shruti (Microsoft, 2001), Sshlinedraw (Tero Kivinen / SSH Communications Security Oy, linedrawing characters for VT100 terminal, 1997), Sylfaen (Microsoft, 1999). All of the fonts are basically Unicode for all European languages, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, basic mathematics, and Greek. |
| Issa__GilianaClassic | Assyrian font Issa__GilianaClassic at Fred Aprim's site. Email to fred.babylon@worldnet.att.net |
| Journal of Biblical Studies | Archive: Altrussisch, Altrussisch-Bold, Altrussisch-BoldItalic, Altrussisch-Italic, Web-Hebrew-AD, BSTGreek, BSTHebrew, Coptic-Normal, Web-Hebrew-Monospace, Cyrillic, Cyrillic-Bold-Italic, Cyrillic-Bold, Cyrillic-Normal-Italic, DSS-Scribal-Normal, Elephantine-Aramaic, Etruscan-Epigraphic-Normal, Netextmo, Netextpro, Greek, Hebrew, IluInternet, Koine-Medium, l562-Minuscule-Normal, Lachish-Bold, Latin-Uncial-Normal, Linear-B, Nippur-Sans-Regular, Macedonian-Ancient, Meroitic---Demotic, Meroitic---Hieroglyphics, Nabataean-Aramaic, Nahkt, Paleo-Hebrew-NormalA, Phoinike, Qumrân, RD-Akkadian1, RK-Ugaritic-Transscript, Rashi, SPAchmim, SPAtlantis, SPDamascus, SPEdessa, SPEzra, SPIonic, SPIonic, SPTiberian, Schwaben-Alt-Bold, Sinaiticus-Greek-Uncial, Sorawin-Plain, Ugarit. |
| LaserSyriac | Commercial Syriac word processing and font software for Syriac, by LinguistSoftware. For PC and Mac. Email to webmaster@linguistsoftware.com |
| LaTeX Navigator Font Subpage | General links on typography and fonts, compiled by Denis Roegel (with earlier contributions by Karl Tombre who is no longer involved). Very, very useful. This page contains, among other things:
Email to Denis.Roegel@loria.fr |
| Michael Davodian | MD King Khammu Rabi is a font to write Aramaic, Assyrian, Soryoyo, Caldean, Nestorian. Michael Davodian says it's his, but it sure feels like this is Arial Unicode. Email to md@assyrian.dk |
| 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. Email to ricdum@aol.com |
| Nicholai Seleznyov | Designer of the Syriac fonts Dinkha Beth (1997) and Nsiven Alap (1997). Email to silesnius@mtu-net.ru |
| Northwest semitic links | Great links page maintained by Reinhard G. Lehmann (Lecturer for Classical Hebrew and Old Aramaic, Johannes-Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) with links related to Hebrew, old Aramaic, Greek, Coptic, old Syrian, Ugaritic and Phoenician. Email to lehmann@mail.uni-mainz.de |
| Online bible resources | Some Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and Coptic font links. Has BSTGreek, BSTHebrew. |
| Paul Nelson | Designer with George Kiraz of the Syriac font EstrangeloEdessa (2000, Syriac Computing Institute). This font was used in the Unicode charts. Winner with Mamoun Sakkal and John Hudson at the TDC2 2003 competition for Arabictype. See also here. |
| Sabean Script | Marib Outline & Marib Solid are Mac fonts for writing Sabean, a Southern Semitic monumental alphabetic script with inscriptions dating back to the first millenium b.c., to the famous kingdom of "Queen of Saba". |
| Sabra | Article by Yannis Haralambous on his Sabra package for using Syriac in TeX. The package covers Serto (or: Jacobite; the Peshito variant, however, is not covered), Estrangelo (but Melchitic and Mandean, variants, are not covered) and East Syriac (or: Nestorian). It also offers Garshuni (Syriac writing of Arabic). Ligatures and stretching connections (keshideh) are automatically performed. The fonts are in METAFONT format. Email to yannis.haralambous@enst-bretagne.fr |
| Scholars Press | Public domain fonts that are designed to work on both Windows computers and Macs. Fonts for Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Coptic, and Semitic-language transliteration. (Mac and Windows): SPEzra (fixed width Hebrew/Aramaic, 1998) and SPTiberian (Hebrew/Aramaic), SPIonic (Greek), SPEdessa (Syriac), SPDoric (1999, uncial Greek), SPAchmim (Coptic), SPDamascus (Hebrew, 1998), SPCaesarea (dingbats, 1998), and SPAtlantis (transliteration). All fonts by Jimmy Adair. FTP access. Truetype archive. Email to jadair@atla-certr.org |
| 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. Email to pking@flnet.com |
| Stig Norin | Stig Norin (Lund, Sweden) offers some HP Deskjet fonts for Syriac. |
| Syriac & Assyrian | Free Assyrian/Syriac fonts at Howard Berlin's site. Email to w3hb@yahoo.com |
| Syriac Computing Institute | Page at SyrCom at the University of Leiden with plenty of links to Syriac typesetting software and Syriac fonts. Alternate site. |
| Syriac EB Barsoum Fonts | From Beirut, Elia Barsoum developed Syriac TTF fonts for Windows (Latin and Arabic versions). Names of the fonts: EB SERTO, EB ESTRANGELO, EB MADENHAIA, EB MERABAH (old Assyrian/Hebrew). He also made some utilities and DLLs to assist the user to write from right to left on the Western edition of Windows which usually writes from left to right. Elia holds a masters degree in operations research from Twente Universiteit in the Netherlands. Currently, he works as a GIS expert and application developer in Beirut for Khatib & Alami, an engineering company. Email to barsoum@rocketmail.com |
| Syriac (Modern Assyrian) Alphabets | Tony Khoshaba and Isa Benyamin (an Assyrian caligraphist) developed a complete set of Eastern Syriac (meta)fonts at the Syriac Computing Institute. The truetype font Ishtar2 (1998) is a modification of an earlier Assyrian font, Nisibus. See also here. See also here. Email to khoshaba@eecs.nwu.edu |
| Syriac/Assyrian Aramaic TrueType Font in MS Arabic | 100USD for two fonts, Eastern Syriac and Estrangeli Syriac. Page by Michael Davodian. Email to assyrian@vip.cybercity.dk |
| Syriac-Estrangelo language products | Commercial fonts for Syriac/Estrangelo. Mac and PC, 100USD per package! |
| The Syriac Computing Institute | Free Syriac fonts. And the page with the best links for Syriac fonts, by far! Included are the new Meltho fonts, being developed by the Syriac Computing Institute. Email to gkiraz@BethMardutho.org |
| The Wonders of Assyria Homepage | Free TrueType font, Assyria's letters. |
| TITUS Instrumenta | Free TrueType fonts of old Christian times, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Christian Oriental, East European, and ancient languages. The TITUS project is run by Jost Gippert in Frankfurt. They intend to develop a special unicode font. TITUS Ogham is an Ogham font. Email to gippert@em.uni-frankfurt.de |
| Transkription semitischer Texte | Ulrich Seeger from Karlsruhe explains about the transcription from/to Hebrew. His nice page (in German) includes free Mac type 1 fonts such as HaifaTimes, GalilTimes, Beyrut, Hatra (a rare script). Plus the Galil family by Ulrich Seeger (1998) for Windows. Also, assur (for Akkadian), Bock and Nebe (for Aramaic), Sima (for South-Arabian), Abbas (for Persian). All these are adaptiations of Times for easy transcriptions. Email to Ulrich.Seeger@tonline.de |
| Ugaritic (metafont) | From Essex University, Alan M. Stanier's metafont for Ugaritic, a cuneiform alphabet (as opposed to the syllabic cuneiform of Akkadian or Hittite), as found on tablets dated from the Late Bronze Age (ca 1400 - 1200 BC) in Northern Syria and Palestine, notably in the archives at Ugarit. Email to alan@essex.ac.uk |
| XenoType Technologies | Specializing in commercial fonts for Assyrian (Syriac), Burmese, Georgian, Khmer, Laotian, Tibetan and Mongolian. Mac-based. Slowly converting to Windows. |