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Unicode typefaces

Unicode typefaces (also known as UCS fonts and Unicode fonts) contains wide range of characters, letters, digits, glyphs, symbols, ideograms, logograms, etc, which are collectively mapped into Universal Character Set, also known as, UCS (which is an international standard ISO/IEC 10646), derived from many different languages, scripts from all around the world. Thus, only one font is able to display vast range of characters, from different languages.

Current Unicode fonts do not include all UCS characters defined in the present revision of ISO 10646 standard. Their creators are updating them with more characters, which were not included previously, or, were not placed correctly, or, including their own characters, or, updating them with new characters defined in the newer standard revision of ISO 10646.

The UCS has over 1.1 million code points, but only the first 65,536 (the Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane, or BMP) had entered into common use before 2000. See the Mapping of Unicode characters article for more information on other planes (Plane 1: SMP, Plane 2: SIP, Plane 14: SSP, Plane 15 and 16: reserved for PUA) and therein included scripts for different languages, dialects.

There are typographical ambiguities in Unicode, so that some of the unified Chinese characters will be typographically different in different regions. For example, Unicode point U+9AA8 (骨) is typographically different between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese. This has implications for the idea that a single typeface can satisfy the needs of all localesKen Lunde, CJKV Information Processing, O'Reilly Inc, 1999. Page 128, "CJKV character form differences".

However, Unicode is now the base character set for many new standards and protocols, and is built into the architecture of operating systems (Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and many versions of Unix), programming languages (Perl, Python, Java, Common LISP, APL), and libraries (IBM International Components for Unicode (ICU) along with the Pango, Graphite, Scribe, Uniscribe, and ATSUI rendering engines), font formats (TrueType and OpenType) and so on. Many other standards are also getting upgraded to Unicode compliancy, day by day.

Utility software such as the Character Map applet included with Windows 2000/XP, MainType (by HighLogic. Commercial, 40-day trial version is available), BabelMap (by Andrew West. Free, donation-ware.), Unicode Font Viewer (by Mike Lischke. Freeware), Quick Key (by Nathanael Jones. Opensource, free.), etc, can be used to see exactly which characters are included, inside a font file.

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Unicode Font List

Out of many Unicode fonts, only few are listed below, which are mostly and commonly used by the (mainstream) majority of users around the world, in major platforms. Unicode font list with more fonts can be found in this (List of typefaces) article's "Unicode fonts" section.
Unicode Fonts
Font Characters Glyphs Version Other Info
Arial 1,419 1674 3.00  
Arial Unicode MS 38,917 50,377 1.01  
Bitstream Cyberbit - 29,934 2.0b  
Cardo 2,195 2,882 0.98 (2004)  
Caslon - 3,551 16-12-2001  
Code2000 51,155 63,888 1.15  
Charis SIL 1,956 3,084 4.002  
Chryſanþi Unicode (Chrysanthi) 4,818 4,383 3.1  
ClearlyU - 9,538 1.9  
DejaVu fonts (DejaVu Sans) - 3,471 2.6  
Doulos SIL 1,956 3,083 4.014  
Everson Mono 4,893 4,899 4.1.3Version info for Everson Mono font in Macromedia Fontographer v4.1.3 2003-02-13.  
Gentium 1,469 1,699 1.0.1 (2003)  
GNU Unifont - > 35,000 -  
Junicode 1,433 1,435 0.6.3  
Lucida Grande - 2,244 5.0d8e1  
Lucida Sans Unicode - 1,776 2.00  
Microsoft Sans Serif 2,301 2,257 1.41  
New Gulim - 49,284 3.10  
Tahoma 1,912 2,034 3.14  
Times New Roman 1,419 1,674 3.00  
TITUS Cyberbit Basic - 9,779 3.0 (2000)  
Y.OzFontN 16,777 59,678 9.13  

0000-077F

 N  = Numerical digits. This number of characters are included in the font for that range.
= Most or some portion out of all characters in that range are present in the font.
 X  = No characters are included in the font for that range or Unicode block.
  -  = Data not available now.
Unicode Fonts
Font 

Range  		Arial Arial Unicode MS Bitstream Cyberbit Cardo Caslon Code2000 Charis SIL Chrysanthi Unicode ClearlyU DejaVu Fonts Doulos SIL Everson Mono Gentium GNU Unifont Junicode Lucida Grande Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif New Gulim Tahoma Times New Roman TITUS Cyberbit Basic Y.OzFontN
Basic Latin (0000–007F)

95

95

95 95

96 95 95 95

98

95
Latin-1 Supplement (0080–00FF)

96

96

96 96

96 96 96 96

96

96
Latin Extended-A (0100–017F)

128

128

128 128

X 128 128 128 128

128

128
Latin Extended-B (0180–024F)

148

52

194 194

126 194 183 178

183

X

28
IPA Extensions (0250–02AF) X 89

96

96 96

96 96 96 94

96

X X X

55
Spacing Modifier Letters (02B0–02FF) X 57

80

73 80

41 80 80 56

80

X

X X

16
Combining Diacritical Marks (0300–036F) X 72

112

97 104

66 104 107 82

106

X

X

32
Greek (0370–03FF)

105

124

120 14

110 14 118 82

X

106

76
Cyrillic (0400–04FF)

226

2

246 209

193 209 246 80

X 244

66
Cyrillic Supplement (0500–052F) X 0 X X X 16 16 X X X 16 16 1 - 16 X

X X X X

X
Armenian (0530–058F) X 85 X X

86 X

86 X 86 X

X X X X X X X

X
Hebrew (0590–05FF)

82

86

82 X

X X 82 X - X 82

X

X
Arabic (0600–06FF)

194

10 X 185 X

X X X 3 X

X X X

X

X
Syriac (0700–074F) X 0 X X X 50 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X

X
Arabic Supplement (0750–077F) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X

0780-139F


Range

Font  

Range  		Arial Arial Unicode MS Bitstream Cyberbit Cardo Caslon Code2000 Charis SIL Chrysanthi Unicode ClearlyU DejaVu Fonts Doulos SIL Everson Mono Gentium GNU Unifont Junicode Lucida Grande Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif New Gulim Tahoma Times New Roman TITUS Cyberbit Basic Y.OzFontN
Thaana (0780–07BF) X 0 X X X 50 X X

X X X X - X X X X X X X

X
Devanagari (0900–097F) X 104 X X X 106 X

X X X X

X X X X X X X

X
Bengali (0980–09FF) X 89 X X X 91 X

X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Gurmukhi (0A00–0A7F) X 75 X X X 77 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Gujarati (0A80–0AFF) X 78 X X X 78 X

X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Oriya (0B00–0B7F) X 79 X X X 79 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Tamil (0B80–0BFF) X 61 X X X 71 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Telugu (0C00–0C7F) X 80 X X X 80 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Kannada (0C80–0CFF) X 80 X X X 80 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Malayalam (0D00–0D7F) X 78 X X X 78 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Sinhala (0D80–0DFF) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Thai (0E00–0E7F) X 87

X

87 X X

X X X X

X 87 X

X

X

X
Lao (0E80–0EFF) X 65 X X X 65 X X

X X X X

X X X X X X X X X
Tibetan (0F00–0FFF) X 168 X X X X X

X X X X X

X X X X X X X X X
Myanmar (Burma) (1000–109F) X 0 X X X 78 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Georgian (10A0–10FF) X 78 X 1 X 81 X X

X X 80 X

X X X X X X X

X
Hangul Jamo (1100–11FF) X 240 X X X 240 X X X X X X X - X X X X

X X X X
Ethiopic(Ge'ez) (1200–137F) X 0 X X X 356 X X

X X X X

X X X X X X X

X
Ethiopic Supplement (1380–139F) X 0 X X X 26 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X

13A0-1DBF


Range

Font  

Range  		Arial Arial Unicode MS Bitstream Cyberbit Cardo Caslon Code2000 Charis SIL Chrysanthi Unicode ClearlyU DejaVu Fonts Doulos SIL Everson Mono Gentium GNU Unifont Junicode Lucida Grande Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif New Gulim Tahoma Times New Roman TITUS Cyberbit Basic Y.OzFontN
Cherokee (13A0–13FF) X 0 X X X 85 X X

X X 85 X - X X X X X X X X X
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (1400–167F) X 0 X X X 630 X X

X X 630 X

X X X X X X X X X
Ogham (1680–169F) X 0 X X

29 X X

X X 29 X

X X X X X X X

X
Runic (16A0–16FF) X 0 X 81

81 X

X X 81 X

X X X X X X

X
Tagalog (Baybayin) (1700–171F) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Hanunoo (1720–173F) X 0 X X X 2 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Buhid (1740–175F) X 0 X X X 20 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Tagbanwa (1760–177F) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Khmer (1780–17FF) X 0 X X X 103 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Mongolian (1800–18AF) X 0 X X X 155 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Limbu (1900–194F) X 0 X X X 66 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Tai Le (1950–197F) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Tai Lue (1980–19DF) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Khmer Symbols (19E0–19FF) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Buginese (1A00–1A1F) X 0 X X X 30 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Phonetic Extensions (1D00–1D7F) X 0 X 17 X 109 128 X X 36 128 107 X -

108 X X X X X

X
Phonetic Extensions Supplement (1D80–1DBF) X 0 X X X X 64 X X 37 64 X X - X X X X X X X X X

1DC0-257F


Range

Font  

Range  		Arial Arial Unicode MS Bitstream Cyberbit Cardo Caslon Code2000 Charis SIL Chrysanthi Unicode ClearlyU DejaVu Fonts Doulos SIL Everson Mono Gentium GNU Unifont Junicode Lucida Grande Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif New Gulim Tahoma Times New Roman TITUS Cyberbit Basic Y.OzFontN
Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement (1DC0–1DFF) X 0 X 2 X X 1 X X X 1 X X - X X X X X X X X X
Latin Extended Additional (1E00–1EFF)

246

88

246 246

X 51 246 246 246

X 246 X

X

8
Greek Extended (1F00–1FFF) X 233 X 233

233 X

X 233 X 233 233

X 233 X

X

X

4
General Punctuation (2000–206F)

63

65

105 73

X 32 73 97 39

87

62
Superscripts and Subscripts (2070–209F) X 28

9

29 34

X 8 34 29 28

29

X X X X

29
Currency Symbols (20A0–20CF)

13

6

22 22

X 3 22 18 14

X 18

X

18
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols (20D0–20FF) X 18

X

27 X X X X X 27 X

X 2 X X X X X X 27
Letterlike Symbols (2100–214F) X 57

13

75 2

8 2 74 1

X 32

X

X X

75
Number Forms (2150–218F) X 48

4

49 49

34 49 49 X

49 X X

X

49
Arrows (2190–21FF) X 91

14

112 19

X 19 112 X

X 20

X

X X

112
Mathematical Operators (2200–22FF)

242

24

246 17

X 34 17 256 2

18

256
Miscellaneous Technical (2300–23FF) X 123

36

209 2 X X 13 2 207 X

X 14 X X X X X X 209
Control Pictures (2400–243F) X 37

X

39 X X

2 X 39 X

X 1

X X X X X 4
Optical Character Recognition (2440–245F) X 11

X X 11 X X X X X 11 X

X X X X X X X X 11
Enclosed Alphanumerics (2460–24FF) X 139

X

160 X X X X X 159 X

1 X X

X X

160
Box Drawing (2500–257F)

128

1

128 X

X X X 128 X

X X

X

X

128

2580-2DDF


Range

Font  

Range  		Arial Arial Unicode MS Bitstream Cyberbit Cardo Caslon Code2000 Charis SIL Chrysanthi Unicode ClearlyU DejaVu Fonts Doulos SIL Everson Mono Gentium GNU Unifont Junicode Lucida Grande Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif New Gulim Tahoma Times New Roman TITUS Cyberbit Basic Y.OzFontN
Block Elements (2580–259F) X 22

X

32 X

X 32 X 32 X

X X

X X X X

32
Geometric Shapes (25A0–25FF)

80

8

96 2

96 2 96 X

X 19

X

X

96
Miscellaneous Symbols (2600–26FF)

106

31

146 X

X 7 X 125 X

X X X X

X

146
Dingbats (2700–27BF) X 160 X 6 X 174 2

X X 2 160 X

3 X X X X X X 174
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (27C0–27EF) X 0 X 9 X 35 2 X X 5 2 X X - X X X X X X X X 28
Supplemental Arrows-A (27F0–27FF) X 0 X 2 X 16 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X 16
Braille Patterns (2800–28FF) X 0 X X X 256 X X

X X X X

X X X X X X X X 256
Supplemental Arrows-B (2900–297F) X 0 X 6 X 128 X X X X X 111 X - X X X X X X X X 128
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B (2980–29FF) X 0 X 2 X 128 X X X 1 X 62 X - X 1 X X X X X X 128
Supplemental Mathematical Operators (2A00–2AFF) X 0 X X X 256 X X X 3 X 21 X - X X X X X X X X 256
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (2B00–2BFF) X 0 X X X 20 X X X 2 X X X - X X X X X X X X 14
Glagolitic (2C00–2C5F) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Coptic (2C80–2CFF) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Georgian Supplement (2D00–2D2F) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Tifinagh (2D30–2D7F) X 0 X X X 55 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Ethiopic Extended (2D80–2DDF) X 0 X X X 79 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X

2E00-4DBF


Range

Font  

Range  		Arial Arial Unicode MS Bitstream Cyberbit Cardo Caslon Code2000 Charis SIL Chrysanthi Unicode ClearlyU DejaVu Fonts Doulos SIL Everson Mono Gentium GNU Unifont Junicode Lucida Grande Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif New Gulim Tahoma Times New Roman TITUS Cyberbit Basic Y.OzFontN
Supplemental Punctuation (2E00–2E7F) X 0 X 24 X 26 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
CJK Radicals Supplement (2E80–2EFF) X 0 X X X 115 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X 128
Kangxi Radicals(Kangxi) (2F00–2FDF) X 0 X X X 214 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X 214
Ideographic Description Characters (2FF0–2FFF) X 0 X X X 12 X X X X X X X

X X X X X X X X 12
CJK Symbols and Punctuation (3000–303F) X 57

12 X 64 X

X X X X X - X X X X

X X

45
Hiragana (3040–309F) X 90

X

90 X

X X X 90 X

X X X X

X X

93
Katakana (30A0–30FF) X 94

X

94 X

X X X 94 X

X X X X

X X

96
Bopomofo (3100–312F) X 40

X X 40 X

X X X X X

X X X X X X X

X
Hangul Compatibility Jamo (3130–318F) X 94

X X 94 X X X X X X X

X X X X

X X X 1
Kanbun (3190–319F) X 16

X X 16 X

X X X X X - X X X X X X X X 16
Bopomofo Extended (31A0–31BF) X 0 X X X 24 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
CJK Strokes (31C0–31EF) X 0 X X X 16 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Katakana Phonetic Extensions (31F0–31FF) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X 16
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (3200–32FF) X 202

X X 232 X X X X X X X - X X X X

X X X 174
CJK Compatibility (3300–33FF) X 249

X X 161 X

X X X X X - X X X X

X X X 85
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A (3400–4DBF) X 20,902 X X X 6,582 X X X X X X X

X X X X

X X X 176

4DC0-FE2F


Range

Font  

Range  		Arial Arial Unicode MS Bitstream Cyberbit Cardo Caslon Code2000 Charis SIL Chrysanthi Unicode ClearlyU DejaVu Fonts Doulos SIL Everson Mono Gentium GNU Unifont Junicode Lucida Grande Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif New Gulim Tahoma Times New Roman TITUS Cyberbit Basic Y.OzFontN
Yijing Hexagram Symbols (4DC0–4DFF) X 64 X X X 64 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
CJK Unified Ideographs (Han Unification) (4E00–9FFF) X 20,924

X X 20,924 X

X X X X X

X X X X

X X X 9,829
Yi Syllables (A000–A48F) X 0 X X X 1,165 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Yi Radicals (A490–A4CF) X 0 X X X 55 X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Modifier Tone Letters (A700–A71F) X 0 X X X X 23 X X X 23 X X - X X X X X X X X X
Syloti Nagri (A800–A82F) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Hangul Syllables (AC00–D7AF) X 11,172

X X 11,172 X X X X X X X

X X X X

X X X X
High Surrogates (D800–DB7F) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
High Private Use Surrogates (DB80–DBFF) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Low Surrogates (DC00–DFFF) X 0 X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Private Use Area (E000–F8FF) X 0

X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X

X
CJK Compatibility Ideographs (F900–FAFF) X 302

X X 421 X X X X X X X

X X X X

X X X 98
Alphabetic Presentation Forms (FB00–FB4F)

57

53

58 5

X 10 5 58 5

X 32 X

X

2
Arabic Presentation Forms-A (FB50–FDFF)

593

X X 155 X

X X X X X

X X X

X

25
Variation Selectors (FE00–FE0F) X 0 X X X 16 16 X X X 16 1 X - X X X X X X X X X
Vertical Forms (FE10–FE1F) X 0 X X X 0 0 X X X 0 0 X - X X X X X X X X X
Combining Half Marks (FE20–FE2F) X 4 X X X 4 X X X X X 4 X

X X X X X X X X X

FE30-FFFF


Range

Font  

Range  		Arial Arial Unicode MS Bitstream Cyberbit Cardo Caslon Code2000 Charis SIL Chrysanthi Unicode ClearlyU DejaVu Fonts Doulos SIL Everson Mono Gentium GNU Unifont Junicode Lucida Grande Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif New Gulim Tahoma Times New Roman TITUS Cyberbit Basic Y.OzFontN
CJK Compatibility Forms (FE30–FE4F) X 28 X X X 28 X X X X X X X

X X X X X X X

32
Small Form Variants (FE50–FE6F) X 26

X X 26 X X X X X X X

X X X X X X X

X
Arabic Presentation Forms-B (FE70–FEFF)

139

X X 140 1

X X 1 X X

X 1 X X X

X
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (FF00–FFEF) X 223

X

124 X X X X X X X

X X X X

X X

172
Specials (FFF0–FFFF) X 2 X 1 X 3 5 X X 1 5 5 X - X 1 X X X X X X X
   BMP

10000-1D7FF

   SMP

Range

Font  

Range  		Arial Arial Unicode MS Bitstream Cyberbit Cardo Caslon Code2000 Charis SIL Chrysanthi Unicode ClearlyU DejaVu Fonts Doulos SIL Everson Mono Gentium GNU Unifont Junicode Lucida Grande Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif New Gulim Tahoma Times New Roman TITUS Cyberbit Basic Y.OzFontN
Linear B Syllabary (10000–1007F) X X X 0 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Linear B Ideograms (10080–100FF) X X X 2 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Aegean Numbers (10100–1013F) X X X 2 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Ancient Greek Numbers (10140–1018F) X X X 75 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Old Italic (10300–1032F) X X X 35 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Gothic (10330–1034F) X X X 27 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Ugaritic (10380–1039F) X X X 0 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Old Persian (103A0–103DF) X X X 0 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Deseret (10400–1044F) X X X 0 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Shavian (10450–1047F) X X X 0 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Osmanya (10480–104AF) X X X 0 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Cypriot Syllabary (10800–1083F) X X X 0 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Kharoshthi (10A00–10A5F) X X X 0 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Byzantine Musical Symbols (1D000–1D0FF) X X X 0 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Musical Symbols (1D100–1D1FF) X X X 0 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Byzantine Musical Symbols (1D000–1D0FF) X X X 0 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Ancient Greek Musical Notation (1D200–1D24F) X X X 70 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Tai Xuan Jing Symbols (1D300–1D35F) X X X 0 X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X X
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (1D400–1D7FF) X X X 13 X X 2 X X X 2 X X - X X X X X X X X X
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B X X X X X X X X X X X X X - X X X X X X X X 339

Range

Font  

 Arial Arial Unicode MS Bitstream Cyberbit Cardo Caslon Code2000 Charis SIL Chrysanthi Unicode ClearlyU DejaVu Fonts Doulos SIL Everson Mono Gentium GNU Unifont Junicode Lucida Grande Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif New Gulim Tahoma Times New Roman TITUS Cyberbit Basic Y.OzFontN
Unicode Fonts

See also

References

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