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

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/

Font creation programs

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

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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

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

Arabic

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

Aramaic

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

Armenian

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

Avestan

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

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Balinese

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

Bassa (Vah)

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

Batak

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

Bengali

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

Bisaya

http://alibataatpandesal.com/outbox.html

Brahmi

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

Braille

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

Burmese/Myanmar

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

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Cherokee

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/cherokee.html
http://joyce.eng.yale.edu/~joant/Cherokee.html

Chinese

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

http://www.copticchurch.net/coptic_fonts/
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/coptic.html
http://www.stshenouda.com/coptsoft.htm
http://heh.pl/&pk

Cree

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/cree.html
http://www.creeculture.ca/e/language/fonts_kbds.html

Cyrillic/Russian

http://cirilica.com/cirilica/Strane/fontovi/fontovi01.html
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/russian.html
http://www.brama.com/compute/
http://www.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/comp/fonts/ttf/
http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/fonts/wincyrillic.html
http://www.davidzbiral.webzdarma.cz/cyrillicof.htm

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Dehong Dai (Tai Nua)

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

Deseret

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

Devanagari (Hindi, Nepai & Marathi)

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

Djembe

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

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Epi-Olmec

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

Ethiopic/Amharic/Ge'ez

http://www.ethiozena.net/info/faq.html
http://hometown.aol.com/Feedel/Feedel.htm
http://www.geezsoft.com/download.html

Etruscan

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

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Georgian

http://www.fonts.ge
http://www.geocities.com/shavlego/grfntdoc.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Georgian.html
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/georgian.html

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German (Fraktur/Sütterlin)

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

Glagolitic

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

Gothic

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/germanic.html
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/1557/fonts1.htm

Greek

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

Gujarati

http://www.asmita.com/down.htm
http://www.fototext.com/download.htm

Gurmukhi/Punjabi

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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Hebrew

http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/hebfonts.htm
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/hebrew.html
http://oketz.com/fonts/

Hieroglyphs

http://www.yare.org/egypt/glyphbasic%20fonts.htm
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/egyptian.html
http://www.neferchichi.com/fonts.html

Hmong

Pahawh Hmong
http://www.hmongnet.org/hmongfonts/
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/hmong.html

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Inuktitut

http://www.aipainunavik.com
http://www.nunatsiaq.com
http://www.egt.ie/earra_bog/apple
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/inuit.html

IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)

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

Irish uncial

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

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Japanese

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Japanese.html
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/japanese.html
http://mikachan.sourceforge.jp (handwriting)

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Kannada

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

Khmer

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

Klingon

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/klingon.html

Korean

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Korean.html
http://ssessesse.x-y.net/acsesarymenu/font/hanfont1.htm
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/korean.html

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Lanna

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

Lao

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Lao.html
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/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

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

Lontara/Makasar

http://alibataatpandesal.com/outbox.html

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Malayalam

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

Manchu

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

Mayan

http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=mayan
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/mayan.html
http://www.masterstech-home.com/
http://www.geocities.com/mayanglyphs/

Mongolian

Traditional Mongolian fonts
http://www.geocities.com/geseree/cms_gallery.html
http://almas.dip.jp/mongol/download/download.html

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Newari/Ranjana

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

N'Ko

http://www.nkoinstitute.com

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Ogham

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

Old Church Slavonic

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

Osmanya/Somali

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

Oriya

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

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Pahlavi

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

Persian/Farsi

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/persian.html
http://iranianlanguages.com
http://www.isc.com.au/WebFonts/

'Phags-pa

http://www.valdyas.org/conlang.html
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Phags-pa/index.html

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Romulan

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/romulan.html

Runes

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/runes.html
http://www.geocities.com/fontmaster.geo/

Hungarian Runes

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

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Sabaean

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

Santali / Ol Cemet’ / Ol Chiki

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

Saurashtra

http://www.palkar.org

Sharda

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

Shavian

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

Sindhi

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

Sinhala

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

Syriac

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

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Tagalog (Baybayin)

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

Tagbanwa

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

Tai Lue

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

Tamil

http://www.sooriyan.com/font/
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/tamil.html
http://www.info.lk/slword/news.htm
http://www.tamil.net/people/kiru/download.htm

Telugu

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

Tengwar

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

Thai

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

Thaana/Dhivehi (Maldivian)

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

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/tibetan.html
http://www.nitartha.org/downloads.html

Tifinagh

http://www.chez.com/imazighen/assckltfngh.html
http://www.mondeberbere.com/langue/polices.htm

Tolkienian

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/tolkien.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

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

Urdu

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

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Vietnamese

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

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Yi

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

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