Links: Free foreign fonts
Links to places you can download fonts for many different
alphabets and other writing systems.
Making your own fonts |
Other sources of fonts |
Foreign imitation fonts
If you find a link that is no longer working or that has moved, or
would like to add a new link to this page, please contact me
Ancient scripts
Fonts for ancient languages
- Bugis, Goidelic, Gothic, Chaldean, Saracen, Phags-pa, Ndjuká, Meroitic and various conlangshttp://www.valdyas.org/conlang.html
Jack's Scribal and Epigraphic fonts
- a collection of ancient fonts including: Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, Sanskrit and many othershttp://www.historian.net/files.htm
http://www.kapba.de/AbkhazianFonts.html
Information about Abkhaz |
Phrases |
Numbers
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Arabic.html http://freearabicfonts.com/ https://cooltext.com/Fonts-Unicode-Arabic https://www.designyourway.net/drb/34-free-arabic-fonts-available-for-download/
Arabic Genie - a quick and easy way to learn the Arabic alphabethttp://www.arabicgenie.com
- Learn Arabic online with ArabicPod101
- TalkInArabic.com - learn colloquial Arabic of Algeria , Egypt , Iraq , the Levant , Morocco , Saudi Arabia , Sudan or Tunisia
- eArabic Learning - Learn Arabic Online with Live Teachers
- Learn Arabic online with Mondly
- Learn Arabic with Glossika Learn Arabic quickly and easily with Rocket Arabic Arabic Genie - a quick and easy way to learn the Arabic alphabetFind Arabic Tutors on Preply
Arabic courses and other resources available on Amazon
Information about Arabic |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Video lessons |
Tower of Babel |
Articles |
Links |
Learning materials |
Books about the Arabic script |
Arabic electronic dictionaries and translators
http://www.historian.net/files.htm
Information about Aramaic |
Phrases |
Tower of Babel
Armenian fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Armenian.html http://www.cilicia.com/armo8.html http://www.hayfonts.com
Learn Armenian with Glossika
Information about Armenian |
Phrases (Eastern Armenian) |
Phrases (Western Armenian) |
Numbers (Eastern Armenian) |
Family words (Eastern Armenian) |
Family words (Western Armenian) |
Tower of Babel (Eastern, Western & Classical Armenian)
Aurekbesh fonts
http://davidocchino.com/portfolio/typography/aurebesh.html http://www.dafont.com/aurebesh.font
Information about Aurekbesh
Avestan fonts
http://www.skytower.org/~ernstjtremel/Ahuramazda/AhuramzdaFont.htm http://minerva.stkate.edu/offices/academic/classics.nsf/pages/avestafonts/
Information about Avestan
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Balinese fonts
http://www.babadbali.com/aksarabali/balisimbar.htm
Information about Balinese |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel |
Books
http://www.reocities.com/jglavy/african.html
Information about Bassa |
Tower of Babel
http://www.hawaii.edu/indolang/surat
Information about Batak |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel
http://scriptsource.org/scr/Beng http://www.omicronlab.com/bangla-fonts.html http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/ http://banglafont.com http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Bengali.html
Information about Bengali |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Kinship words |
Telling the time |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
Learn Bengali with Glossika
https://sites.google.com/site/brahmiscript/
Information about Brahmi
http://www.tsbvi.edu/math/1087-download-braille-and-asl-specialty-fonts http://www.fontspace.com/category/braille
Information about Braille
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/seasite.htm http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Myanmar.html http://www.angelfire.com/country/burmesefont/
Information about Burmese |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
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http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Cherokee.html http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
Information about Cherokee |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Learning materials
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseTraditional.html http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseSimplified.html http://www.clearchinese.com/resources/fonts.htm http://www.ibiblio.org/chinesehistory/contents/08fea/c02.html
Information about Mandarin |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Family words |
Time |
Tongue twisters |
Video lessons |
Tower of Babel |
Articles |
Links |
Learning materials
http://www.copticchurch.net/coptic_fonts/ http://www.stshenouda.com/coptsoft.htm
Information about Coptic |
Tower of Babel in Coptic
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Cree.html
Information about Cree |
Phrases |
Learning materials
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_CyrS.html http://www.fingertipsoft.com/ref/cyrillic/fontlist.html http://www.typography.com/collections/cyrillic/ http://kodeks.uni-bamberg.de/AKSL/Schrift/RomanCyrillicStd.htm
Information about Russian |
Useful phrases |
Silly phrases |
Numbers |
Colours |
Time |
Family words |
Terms of endearment |
Weather |
Idioms |
Tongue twisters |
Tower of Babel |
Articles |
Links |
Learning materials
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http://www.fixedsys.org/ http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/TaiDehong
Information about Dehong Dai
http://home.earthlink.net/~sbartok1632/projects/fonts.htm
Information about Deseret
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Devanagari.html http://www.devanagarifonts.net http://www.sanskritweb.net/cakram/
Information about Hindi |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Kinship words |
Telling the time |
Tongue twisters |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials |
Electronic dicitonaries and translators
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http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Ethiopic.html http://www.ethiopianreview.com/ethiopia/geez_fonts.html
Information about Amharic |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
http://www.dafont.com/etruscan.font http://www.fontspace.com/dave-bastian/etruscan
Information about Estruscan
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http://www.fonts.ge http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Georgian.html
Information about Georgian |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel |
Songs |
Learning materials
http://www.morscher.com/3r/fonts/fraktur.htm http://www.fontspace.com/category/fraktur https://www.1001fonts.com/suetterlin-fonts.html
Information about German |
Useful phrases |
Silly phrases |
Numbers |
Colours |
Family words |
Time |
Weather |
Tongue twisters |
Tower of Babel |
Articles |
Links |
Learning materials
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Glagolitic.html http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/gl-font.html
Information about Glagolitic
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Gothic.html
Information about Gothic |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel |
Gothic books
http://www.virtualvinodh.com/wp/grantha-17-fonts-softwares/
Information about Grantha
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Greek.html http://www.greek-language.com/Fonts.html http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/fonts.html http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/fonts.asp
Information about Greek |
Phrases (Modern Greek) |
Phrases (Ancient Greek) |
Numbers |
Family words |
Time |
Idioms |
Proverbs |
Tongue twisters |
Tower of Babel (Modern Greek) |
Tower of Babel (Ancient Greek) |
Articles |
Links |
Learning materials |
Books about the Greek alphabet
Gujarati fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Gujarati.html http://www.fototext.com/download.htm
Information about Gujarati |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Telling the time |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
Gurmukhi/Punjabi fonts
http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/download.html http://members.aol.com/hspannu/punjabi.html
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Hebrew fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Hebrew.html http://opensiddur.org/tools/fonts/ http://oketz.com/fonts/ http://www.daniella.co.il/daniella/bloog/font/Hebrew-font-page1.htm http://www.mendelsson.co.il/yakov/myfonts.htm
Learn Hebrew online with HebrewPod101 Practical Hebrew - learn to speak the Hebrew that really matters Learn Hebrew with LinguaLift
Information about Hebrew |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Telling the time |
Video lessons |
Tower of Babel |
Articles |
Biblical Hebrew video lessons |
Modern Hebrew video lessons |
Hebrew links |
Hebrew learning materials
Hieroglyphic fonts
http://www.yare.org/egypt/glyphbasic fonts.htm http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/egyptian.html http://www.neferchichi.com/fonts.html
Ancient Egyptian language and Hieroglyphs |
Hieratic script |
Demotic script |
Coptic alphabet |
Links |
Books about Ancient Egyptian
Pahawh Hmonghttp://www.reocities.com/jglavy/hmong.html
Information about Hmong |
Phrases |
Tower of Babel in Blue Hmong, White Hmong and
Iu Mien |
Hmong books
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http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Inuktitut.html http://www.nunavut.com http://www.evertype.com/software/apple/
Information about Inuktitut |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=FontDownloadsIPA http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/fonts.htm http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_IPA.html
Information about the IPA
Irish uncial fonts
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~oduibhin/mearchlar/fonts.htm http://www.gaelchlo.com http://www.abstractfonts.com/search/irish+uncial
Irish language |
Gaelic script |
Ogham alphabet |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Colours |
Family words |
Terms of endearment |
Time |
Weather |
Proverbs |
Comparison of Celtic languages |
Celtic cognates |
Tower of Babel |
Tongue twisters |
Songs |
Learning materials |
Books about Ogham |
My podcast about Irish |
Links
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http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Japanese.html http://mikachan.sourceforge.jp http://sites.google.com/site/nihilistorguk/
Introduction to Japanese |
Hiragana |
Katakana |
Kanji |
Rōmaji |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Colours |
Telling the time |
Family words |
Tower of Babel |
Articles |
Links |
Learning materials
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http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Kannada.html http://salrc.uchicago.edu/resources/fonts/available/kannada/ http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/kannada/ http://kannada.changathi.com/Fonts.aspx https://github.com/aravindavk/Gubbi https://github.com/aravindavk/Navilu
Information about Kannada |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel
Khitan fonts
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Khitan.html
Information about Khitan
http://www.cambodia.org/fonts http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Khmer.html http://www.magma.ca/~sary/fonts.htm http://scripts.sil.org/Mondulkiri http://selapa.net/khmerfonts/
Information about Khmer |
Phrases |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
Klingon fonts
http://www.evertype.com/fonts/tlh/ http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/klingon.htm http://www.eatoni.com/wiki/index.php/Klingon https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/horta
Information about Klingon |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of babel |
Learning materials
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Korean.html http://cooltext.com/Fonts-Unicode-Korean
Information about Korean |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Colours |
Telling the time |
Family words |
Tongue twisters |
Tower of Babel |
Articles |
Learning materials |
Links
Kurdish fonts
http://www.skytower.org/~ernstjtremel/OpenTypeFont_KurdishAllAlphabets.htm
Information about Kurdish |
Phrases (Kurmanji) |
Phrases (Sorani) |
Numbers (Kurmanji) |
Numbers (Soranî) |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
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http://se-ed.net/tua-mueng/ http://www.pinpia.com/indexeng.htm
Lao fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Lao.html http://www.laoscript.net/downloads/ http://www.seasite.niu.edu/seasite.htm#download
Information about Lao |
Phrases |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
Lepcha fonts
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=Mingzat http://www.fontineed.com/font/lepcha http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxLepcha.html http://www.siblac.org/lepcha_script.html
Information about Lepcha
Limbu fonts
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=NamdhinggoSIL http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Limbu.html http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxLimbu.html
Information about Limbu
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Buginese.html http://alibataatpandesal.com/outbox.html
Information about Bugis |
Bilang-bilang script |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel
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Malayalam fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Malayalam.html http://www.prokerala.com/downloads/fonts.php https://sites.google.com/site/fontpacksite/malayalam-fonts https://sites.google.com/site/cibu/ http://www.horomatching.com/KattaFont.aspx https://smc.org.in/fonts/
Information about Malayalam |
Suriyani Malayalam |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
Manchu fonts
http://sourceforge.net/projects/manchufont/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mang_Manchu_fonts http://www.daicing.com/manchu/index.php?page=fonts-downloads http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxManchu.html
Information about Manchu |
Numbers
http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=mayan http://www.masterstech-home.com/
Information about the Mayan script |
Books about Mayan writing |
Mayan language learning materials
Middle Persian (Pahlavi) fonts
http://www.iranchamber.com/scripts/pahlavi_script.php http://www.fravahr.org/spip.php?article185 http://minerva.stkate.edu/offices/academic/classics.nsf/pages/pahlavifonts/
Information about Middle Persian scripts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Mongolian.html http://www.mongoluls.net/font.shtml http://www.mongolfont.com/en/index.html
Learn Mongolian with Glossika
Information about Mongolian |
Soyombo Script |
Mongolian Square Script |
Galik Alphabet |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
Mro/Mru fonts
http://phjamr.github.io/mro.html
Information about the Mro/Mru language
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http://www.easynepalityping.com/newari-fonts-download
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_NKo.html http://www.evertype.com/fonts/nko/ https://ufonts.com/fonts/jg-nko.html
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http://www.evertype.com/celtscript/ogfont.html http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ogham
Irish language |
Gaelic script |
Ogham alphabet |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Colours |
Family words |
Terms of endearment |
Time |
Weather |
Proverbs |
Comparison of Celtic languages |
Celtic cognates |
Tower of Babel |
Tongue twisters |
Songs |
Learning materials |
Books about Ogham |
My podcast about Irish |
Links
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
Information about Old Church Slavonic |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
Old Persian Cuneiform fonts
https://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_OldPersianC.html https://www.fontspace.com/category/old%20persian Esnaashari & Sarhadi's Old Persian Unicode Font (Zip)
Information about Old Persian Cuneiform
Osmanya (Somali) fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Osmanya.html
Information about Somali |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
Odia fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Oriya.html
Information about Odia |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel
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Pashto fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Pashto.html http://www.khpalapashtu.com/sitee/downloads/fonts.htm
Information about Pashto |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel |
Learing materials
http://www.fontfarsi.ir/fontfarsi/
Information about Persian |
Latin alphabets for Persian |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel |
Links |
Learning materials
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Phags-pa.html https://wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Phagspa.html
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http://star-trek-fonts.fanspace.com/
http://www.fontspace.com/category/runic http://www.thesauruslex.com/typo/hniaseng.htm http://www.libdesigner.com/2012/04/19/25-runic-fonts-free-to-download/ http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/links4.html
Information about Runic scripts
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http://www.fontspace.com/category/sabaean
Samaritan fonts
http://culmus.sourceforge.net/ancient/index.html
Information about Samaritan
http://ncmurmu.tripod.com/ http://wesanthals.tripod.com/id19.html
Information about Santali |
Tower of Babel
https://www.google.com/get/noto/ http://www.palkar.org/dwnload.shtml
Information about Saurashtra
Free Sharda fonthttp://koshur.org/contents.html
http://www.demeyere.com/Shavian/info.html http://www.30below.com/~ethanl/fonts.html http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Shavian.html
Information about Shavian |
Tower of Babel
Siddham fonts
http://tongphuockhai.wordpress.com/
Information about Siddham
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Sinhala.html http://ananmanan.lk/free_sinhala_fonts/ http://www.wideshaseva.com/home/free_sinhala_fonts.html http://www.metta.lk/fonts/
Information about Sinhala |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
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http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/fonts.htm
Information about Tagalog |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Time |
Tongue twisters |
Tower of Babel |
Tagalog learning materials
Tagbanwa fonts
http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org/download/tagbanwa.htm
http://scripts.sil.org/DaiBannaSIL
http://www.azhagi.com/freefonts.html http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tamil.html
Information about Tamil |
Arwi Arabic script for Tamil |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel |
Language learning materials
Telugu fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Telugu.html http://scriptsource.org/scr/Telu
Information about Telugu |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Colours |
Tower of Babel
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/seasite.htm
ThaiPod101.com - Learn Thai with Free Podcasts
Information about Thai |
Phrases |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Thaana.html http://www.mitf.net/index.php/projects/thaana/font-unicode.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tibetan.html http://tsampa.org/tibetan/software/ http://www.thlib.org/tools/scripts/wiki/Tibetan Fonts.html http://www.aerifal.cx/~dalias/bodyig/fonts/
Information about Tibetan |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Tifinagh.html
Tengwar fontshttp://www.dafont.com/tengwar-annatar.font http://at.mansbjorkman.net/parmaite.htm http://www.sci.fi/~alboin/tengwar.htm http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Fonts
Tengwar for Quenya ,
Sindarin ,
Arabic ,
English ,
High Valyrian ,
Hungarian ,
Icelandic ,
Portugese ,
Scottish Gaelic (1) ,
Scottish Gaelic (2) ,
Spanish ,
Spanish (Latin American) ,
Vietnamese ,
Welsh
Sarati fontshttp://at.mansbjorkman.net/sarati.htm
Cirth fontshttp://www.acondia.com/fonts/index.html
Cirth |
Sarati |
Tengwar for Quenya |
Tengwar for Sindarin |
Uruk Runes |
Links |
Books about Tolkien's languages |
Tolkien's books
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Ugaritic fonts
https://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Ugaritic.html http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/rk_fonts/rkaf_ugaritic.html
Unifon fonts
http://unifon.org/pages/unifon-characters.html
Urdu fonts
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Urdu.html http://urdu.ca http://www.urdulife.com/font/download/
Information about Urdu |
Phrases |
Numbers |
Telling the time |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
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http://fontchu.com http://www.vps.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/vietunicode/
Information about Vietnamese |
Chữ-nôm script |
Phrases |
Colours |
Numbers |
Family words |
Tower of Babel |
Learning materials
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http://scripts.sil.org/SILYi_home
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Zaghawa fonts
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ZaghawaBeria_Home
Information about Zaghawa
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Fonts for multiple writing systems
http://www.wazu.jp http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html http://www.slovo.info/unifonts.htm http://greekfonts.teilar.gr http://www.quivira-font.com/ http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/ http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html https://www.google.com/get/noto/
Fonts for Miao (Pollard), Lisu (Fraser) and Mro/Mruhttp://phjamr.github.io/
ALPHABETUM - a Unicode font
specifically designed for ancient scripts, including classical
& medieval Latin, ancient Greek, Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian,
Faliscan, Messapic, Picene, Iberian, Celtiberian, Gothic, Runic,
Old & Middle English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Old Nordic, Ogham,
Kharosthi, Glagolitic, Old Cyrillic, Phoenician, Avestan, Ugaritic,
Linear B, Anatolian scripts, Coptic, Cypriot, Brahmi, Old Persian cuneiform:
http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/~jmag0042/alphabet.html
Making your own fonts
Font creation tutorialshttps://www.creativebloq.com/typography/design-your-own-typeface-8133919 https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/create-your-own-font
Sites and software for creating and editing fontshttp://fontstruct.com http://glyphrstudio.com/ http://fontforge.github.io/ http://www.fontlab.com https://birdfont.org/ http://fontark.net/farkwp/ http://2ttf.com/ http://www.yourfonts.com http://www.cheapfontgenerator.com https://www.calligraphr.com
Software for generating keyboard layoutshttp://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/
Foreign imitation fonts
http://www.1001fonts.com http://www.2-free.net/foreign-imitation-fonts/ http://www.ezeefonts.com/en/fonts/foreign/
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Links pages
Links for individual languages
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