IE fonts for MS Windows

From: dawier
Message: 12567
Date: 2002-03-01

Since I got Windows XP a while ago, I've discovered lots of fonts,
most of them available for free from Microsoft (I forgot where I
found them though -- many are found in "update packs" and such).
These require Unicode support of some sort, so ixnay on Windows 3.1.
Here are some exemplary examples:

Andalus. Arabic Transparent, Traditional Arabic, Simplified Arabic:
also include Farsi letters. Available with Internet Explorer (with
Arabic support add-on) and Windows 2000/XP. Traditional Arabic
accomodates the various ligatures in the Presentation Forms (and a
few Private Use) area of Unicode.

David, Miriam, FrankRuehl, Aharoni, Levenim, Rod: Hebrew fonts that
also accomodate Yiddish and Ladino (as well as Judeo-Arabic).

Arial Unicode MS: a HUGE font with complete extended Arabic (i.e.
Kurdish, Farsi, Pashto, Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmiri) as well as Armenian,
Jewish IE languages (Yiddish, Ladino), IPA, Greek Polytonic, and
incomplete Indic (Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya)
support. (Indic fonts are only available with Windows 2000/XP or a
localized earlier version of Windows).

Berling Antiqua: IPA and Indic transliteration. Comes with Microsoft
Reader, an e-book reader.

Bold Italic Art, Diwani, Farsi Simple, Kufi Extended/Outline, LED
Italic (I *love* this one!), PT Bold, Simple: a package of font
families available as a download from MS Middle East. But you have
to find those via Google or some other search engine, and these
require OpenType support (so they're only useful for Windows 2000/XP
or Arabic/Farsi/Urdu localized Windows. But these fonts do have full
Farsi and Urdu support. These are mostly decorative/headline types.

Georgia Ref, Verdana Ref: variants of the two Windows core fonts
that contain letters for Indic and Semitic transliteration, Irish
Gaelic dotted consonants, American English phonetic symbols and
other good stuff, much of it in the Private Use area.

HM Phonetic: a bitmap font (all the others are TrueType) with some
phonetic symbols, but far from complete.

Lucida Sans Unicode: you know this one. It's in the Files section as
well as Thryomanes (great job, Hermann!)

Microsoft Sans Serif: Included with Windows 2000 and XP, but you can
also download this one from Microsoft Middle East somewhere, along
with Urdu keyboard support. It includes the complete extended Arabic
characters as well as extended Cyrillic. A basic Helvetica-type font
with no bold or italic versions.

MS UI Gothic: A Japanese font (therefore several megabytes) with IPA
and Old Church Slavonic characters. But this one is part of a .tfc
package and only Windows 2000/XP can use these.

Palatino Linotype: MY FAVORITE!! Virtually the same as Book Antiqua
(Palatino for you Mac users), but it has a *lovely* Greek typeface,
and it includes archaic Russian and Greek letters as well as the
whole Greek Polytonic section in Unicode. I use this as
my "standard" font for Word 2002 as well as IE 6.0.

(Let me remind you I'm not trying to promote M$ products and I am
not a paid endorsement guy.)

Sylfaen: A Win 2k/XP font with full Armenian and almost-full
Georgian (it lacks the old Asomatvruli capitals and the two
additional Mxedruli letters for Mingrelian).

Tahoma: The latest version contains the entire Arabic set, including
presentation forms. Also available in Bold.

Notice I didn't include non-Unicode reference fonts like Bookshelf,
MS Reference, Arial/Times New Roman Special G1/G2 etc.

Now I'll send y'all on a scavenger hunt for some of these.