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Cyrillic OCS

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Introduction

This page shows the subset of Cyrillic fonts that contain the unique, historical letters needed for Old Church Slavonic (OCS). Separate pages show Cyrillic fonts for modernSlavic and non-Slavic languages.

The Unicode standard defines the historical Cyrillic letters as part of the Cyrillic Unicode block. Few Cyrillic fonts contain the historical letters needed for OCS. Additionally, only a subset of the fonts shown below use a style that is appropriate for OCS.

Most fonts that are primarily for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean have been omitted from these samples for brevity.

Font Samples

font sample *	font information
	ALPHABETUM Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (ALPHABETUM v.9.00.ttf) Note: Excellent font for linguistics and ancient languages. PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Shareware ($15) from Juan José Marcos. Stats: Version 9.0 Feb 2007 has 5,515 glyphs and 220 kerning pairs Support: Coptic, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Gothic, Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Glagolitic, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Ogham, Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Runic, Ugaritic, Private Use Area (Iberic & Celtiberic, additional Old Italic glyphs, Old & Medieval Latin)
	Arial Unicode MS    [ show all samples ]  (arialuni.ttf) Source: Comes with Microsoft's Office 2000, FrontPage 2000, Office XP and Publisher 2002. Stats: Version 1.00 has 50,377 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Balochi, Persian, Shahmukhi, Urdu), Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Kannada, Korean (Hangul only), Latin, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Farsi, Urdu), Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic (default, Japanese, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional), Kana (default, Japanese), Kannada, Korean, Tamil
	CERG Chinese Font    [ show all samples ]  (cerg_chi.ttf from cerg_chi.zip) Note: Also has significant coverage of mathematical characters. Source: Free download from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. Stats: Version 3.01 has 36,701 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Chinese (Fantizi/Traditional Han Ideographs including Extension A), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Han Ideographic (default, Chinese/ZHT)
	Chrysanthi Unicode (Chryſanþi Unicode)    [ show all samples ]  (chrysuni.ttf) PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download from EveryWitchWay's Chrysanthi Unicode page. Stats: Version 3.1 has 4,383 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Runic, Vietnamese
	Code2000    [ show all samples ]  (code2000.ttf) Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage. Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
	DejaVu Sans    [ show all samples ]  (DejaVuSans.ttf, DejaVuSans-Bold, DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf, and DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf from dejavu-ttf-version.zip) Note: The "DejaVu Sans Condensed" font is also available. Source: Free download from DejaVu project on SourceForge. Stats: Version 2.10 has 3,932 glyphs and 2,558 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Persian), Armenian, Braille, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: default, Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic (default, Macedonian, Serbian), Greek, Hebrew, Lao, Latin (default, Dinka)
	Dilyana    [ show all samples ]  (dilyana.ttf) Source: Free download from R.M.Cleminson. Stats: Version 1.00 2005 has 346 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Glagolitic, Cyrillic (OCS)
	Enigmatic Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (EnigmaU_2.TTF) Source: Free download from Darren Rigby's "Objets Dart" site. Stats: Version 2.0 has 1,096 glyphs and 2 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including Coptic characters), IPA, Latin
	Everson Mono Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (evermono.ttf) Source: Shareware from Everson Mono. Stats: Version 4.1.3 2003-02-13 has 4,899 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Ogham, Runic, Vietnamese
	Free Serif    [ show all samples ]  (FreeSerif.ttf, FreeSerifBold.ttf, FreeSerifItalic.ttf, and FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz) Note: Bold and italic styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font. Source: Free download from Savannah. Stats: Version 1.52 has 3,914 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Malayalam, Tamil, Thaana, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Latin, Malayalam (traditional), Tamil
	Hindsight Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (HindUnic.ttf and HindUnIt.ttf) Source: Free download from the History/Hindsight page of Darren Rigby's "Objets Dart" site. Stats: Version 1.00 January 2001 has 2,894 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Vietnamese
	Kliment Std    [ show all samples ]  (Kliment_Std.ttf) Source: Free download from the fonts page of the Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters. Stats: Version 1.005 (2005) has 1,199 glyphs and 3 kerning pairs Support: CyrOCS, Greek, Latin (including many extended/additional letters and diacritics)
	Lazov    [ show all samples ]  (lazov01.ttf) Source: Free download from the fonts page of the Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters. Stats: Version 1.00 (December 20, 2005) has 813 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (OCS), Latin
	LeedsUni    [ show all samples ]  (leedsuni.ttf) Source: Free download from Alec McAllister's home page. Stats: Version 001.000 has 2,343 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), IPA, Latin (including many extended/additional letters and diacritics), Runic, Vietnamese, Private Use Area (Medieval Latin)
	Lucida Bright    [ show all samples ]  (LucidaBrightRegular.ttf, LucidaBrightDemiBold.ttf, LucidaBrightDemiItalic.ttf, LucidaBrightItalic.ttf, and may be others depending on the source) Note: The LBRITE.TTF version of this font supports Latin only. Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2. Stats: Version 1.10 JAVA has 1,402 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including Coptic characters), Latin
	Lucida Sans    [ show all samples ]  (LucidaSansRegular.ttf, LucidaSansDemiBold.ttf, and may be others depending on the source) Note: The LSANS.TTF version of this font supports Latin only. Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2. Stats: Version 1.20 has 2,929 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari
	Lucida Sans Typewriter    [ show all samples ]  (LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf, LucidaTypewriterBold.ttf, and may be others depending on the source) Note: The LTYPE.TTF version of this font supports Latin only. Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2. Stats: Version 1.10 JAVA has 1,376 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin
	Lucida Sans Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (l_10646.ttf) Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000. Stats: Version 2.00 has 1,776 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Hebrew, IPA, Latin
	Menaion    [ show all samples ]  (Menaion.ttf) PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download from the fonts page of the Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters. Stats: Version 2.01 (September 2004) has 968 glyphs and 639 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (OCS), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
	Menaion Medieval    [ show all samples ]  (Menaion_djb.ttf) PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download from the fonts page of the Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters. Stats: Version 2.10 (December 20, 2005) has 974 glyphs and 696 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (OCS), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Latin
	Microsoft Sans Serif    [ show all samples ]  (micross.ttf) Source: Supplied with Windows XP SP2 (service pack 2). Older versions were supplied with Windows XP and Windows 2000. Stats: Version 1.41 has 2,257 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin (basic and beyond), Thai, Vietnamese Warning: IPA, Greek polytonic, Greek Coptic, and many Cyrillic characters were only added with version 1.41. OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, MAR)
	Roman Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (romanuni.ttf) Source: Free download from EveryWitchWay's Roman Unicode page. Stats: Version 3.0 has 3,923 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek, Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese
	Staroslavenski unicode    [ show all samples ]  (stsl_uni2.TTF) Source: Free download from . In the "Fonts for Windows" section click on the link that say "round and angular glagolitic font, created by dr. Emil Hersak". Stats: Version (Unicode) has 219 glyphs and 92 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (OCS), Latin
	Tahoma    [ show all samples ]  (tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf) Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP and Windows 2000. Stats: Version 3.14 has 2,034 glyphs and 674 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Ajami, Azeri, Balochi, Berber, Brahui, Kazakh, Kirghiz Kurdish, Lahnda, Jawi, Pashto, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, Latin, Thai, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic
	Thryomanes    [ show all samples ]  (thryrg__.ttf, thryb___.ttf, thryi___.ttf and thrybi__.ttf from Thryomanes12.zip) Source: Free download from Herman Miller's language page. Stats: Version 1.2 (Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 9/15/2003) has 1,689 glyphs and 2 kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek, IPA, Latin, Vietnamese
	TITUS Cyberbit Basic    [ show all samples ]  (tituscbz.ttf) PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download (after submitting a form) from TITUS. Stats: Version 3.0 (2000) has 9,779 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Ogham, Runic, Thaana, Vietnamese
	Titus Cyrillic    [ show all samples ]  (titucn__.ttf from the wc97401.exe archive) Note: Also has OCS Cyrillic characters mapped to non-Cyrillic codepoints. Source: Part of the free TITUS WordCruncher font package download available from TITUS (after submitting a form). Stats: Version (blank) has 261 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (OCS), Latin
	Torquemada Starved Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (TorqThUn.ttf) Source: Free download from the Torturer/Torquemada page of Darren Rigby's "Objets Dart" site. Stats: Version 1 has 979 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including Coptic characters), Latin
	TransCyrillicU    [ show all samples ]  (regular, bold, italic, and bold italic) Platforms: Both Windows and Macintosh. Note: The modern language Russian Bible is being published using font data from TransCyrillicU. Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software. Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Latin

 

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Related Links

• The Unicode implementation of Cyrillic is described in chapter 7 (European Alphabetic Scripts) of The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0.
• The Unicode character code charts are available at the organization's website.
• Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about related Unicode blocks and their characters can be found on decodeunicode's Cyrillic and Cyrillic Supplement pages (in English and German/Deutsch).
• AZBUKA is an English-language web site covering Church Slavonic calligraphy & typography, including Unicode information.
• TITUS has a great Cyrillic test page called "The Development of Slavonic Alphabets". It covers OCS as well as modern Slavic languages.
• Writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot.

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