Православные шрифты – Orthodox Fonts
Catalog of Slavonic Font Families
1. Ustav Fonts - representing the handwritten system of Paleoslavonic, Old [Church] Slavonic, AND including the Glagolitic script.
2. Slavonic Incunabula - representing the primitive typographic tradition of the first editions of Venice, Krakow (Dr. Francisk Skorinja), and other locations in the Balkan lands (Skopie, etc.). 3. Poluustav Fonts - this can be divided into three sub-families:
4. Synodal Era Slavonic Fonts - Following the lead of the Moscow Synodal Typografiia, all of the other Slavic lands (with the exception for Kievan and Old Believer editions) adopted a style of modernized typography which was heavily influenced by elements of western European typography. 5. Modern Slavonic Fonts - This includes font designs of the past 30 years which have cast aside all pretense of using historical typefaces as models. |
6. Civil Script Fonts - This includes any modern Unicode and legacy-encoded fonts (both serif and san serif typefaces) containing Slavonic characters redesigned to match Latin letter forms, which are primarily used for academic purposes. 7. Decorative Slavonic Fonts - This includes the whole range of historical letter forms used for ornamentation. This family can be subdivided as:
9. Chant Notation Fonts - This includes neumatic notations (Byzantine and Znamenny notation) and Kievan Square-note notation. (This area will be developed in the future.) |
Font Designers and Distributors
Non-Commercial (Free) Distributors of Slavonic Fonts
- Irmologion (the premier web site for Slavonic fonts, distributed by Vladislav Dorosh)
- Font Foundries, Sources and Distributors
- Cyrilské truetypové fonty pre cirkevnú slovančinu a staroslovienčinu (Byzantine Catholic Slavonic fonts)
- Ponomar Project – Church Slavonic support
Commercial Distributors of Slavonic Fonts
- ParaType - This is a commercial web site in Russia which has a number of interesting Slavonic fonts ranging from the traditional to the bizarre. All their Slavonic fonts are quite decorative, but they are available only in CP 1251 and non-standard character encodings. —ParaType (and ТРОПИНКА К ХРАМУ)
- Linguist's Software – Linguist's Software (Philip B. Payne, Ph.D.; Payne Loving Trust)
- MacCampus
- Cyrillic Fonts (Bulgarian and Russian)
- Miscellaneous Distributors
Miscellaneous
- Typeface Design Competitions
- HELP WANTED - Please help me locate these fonts!
- GENERAL LINKS - Typography, Calligraphy, Alphabets, Languages, History, etc.
- древнерусские шрифты - miscellaneous links and information on Old Russian Fonts
- Another site - similar content
- OCS Cyrillic Unicode Fonts (WAZU JAPAN's Gallery of Unicode Fonts) — unfortunately, nothing very useful or standard here for authentic type styles of Church Slavonic
* LEGAL DISCLAIMER: The majority of these fonts were found posted on the internet - free of charge. Unless stated otherwise, I am assuming that it is legally acceptable for me to provide copies of these fonts on my web site, although I will always attempt to give due credit to the font designers and links to web sites where these fonts are originally distributed (if such information is currently known). Several older fonts are now quite difficult to find on the internet, and I am offering them for download at this site. Fonts that are distributed commercially should be legally purchased, and I will attempt to provide links to the original font vendors. I am not the creator of most of these fonts. If you are the creator of a font here and would like it removed, please let me know. This site is not for any commercial endeavor and I do not receive any form of payment. This reference collection is offered as a free service for Eastern Orthodox publishers, typographers, and those who simply enjoy collecting fonts. Please e-mail me if you know of any other "Orthodox" fonts, or if you have any suggestions to improve this reference tool. (Nikita Simmons, editor)
