Medieval Slavic Fonts

Free Unicode fonts for Slavists

Roman CyrillicStd. Unicode 5.1 font with almost 3500 characters. Works on PCs, Macs, and Linux. Designed by Sebastian Kempgen. Modern glyphs based on Times Roman. See Kodeks site for details.

Dilyana. Unicode 5.1 font designed by Ralph Cleminson. Works on PCs, Macs, and Linux. Black-letter glyphs. Also includes Glagolitic.
Kliment Std.. Unicode 5.1 TrueType font especially for Slavic Medievalists Designed by Sebastian Kempgen. Modern glyphs based on Times Roman, but with early letter forms. Works on PCs, Macs, and Linux. See Kodeks site for details.
Lazov. Originally designed by Rumjan Lazov and now maintained by David J. Birnbaum. Black-letter glyphs in a modern interpretation. Works on PCs, Macs, and Linux.
Menaion Medieval. Originally designed by Viktor Baranov and adapted for Unicode 5.1 by David J. Birnbaum. Works on PCs, Macs, and Linux.
BukyVede. a Unicode font for Slavic Medievalists, supporting OCS Cyrillic and Glagolitic. Works on Mac OS X and Windows. See Kodeks site for details.
MPH 2B Damase. Supports Cyrillic and Glagolitic.
Ponomar. Ponomar Unicode is a font for typesetting Synodal Church Slavonic. See the Ponomar site for more details and documentation.
Fedorovsk Unicode. Fedorovsk Unicode is designed to mimick the typeface used by Ivan Fedorov. See the Ponomar site for more details and documentation.
Menaion Unicode Menaion Unicode is intended for representing text from Ustav-era manuscripts (either Cyrillic or Glagolitic). See the Ponomar site for more details and documentation.

Slavist Fonts. The Windows Version of Jake Jacobson's Cyril and Methodius for the Mac.
XSerif Old Russian. Codepage is 1251.
Kirillica Wincyr. Codepage is 1251.

Munich Abecedarium. The Munich Abecedarium font reproduces the handwriting of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic letters in the Munich Abecedarium – the oldest monument of the Old Bulgarian Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets (second half of the XI century – the beginning of the XII century).

This page maintained by:
Andrew M. Drozd
University of Alabama
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