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[[Category:Tibetan Software]]
See also
[[Tibetan Unicode]]
 
This is an overview of the currently available Tibetan computer fonts
==Fonts compatible with the ISO 10646 / Unicode Standard for encoding Tibetan characters: [[Tibetan Unicode]]==
===OpenType Tibetan Fonts at THDL===
* [http://www.thdl.org/xml/show.php?xml=/tools/tibfonts.xml&l=uva10928423419921 Tibetan Machine Uni] - based on TCC / Tony Duff's ''Tibetan Machine'' font. <br>
* [http://www.thdl.org/xml/show.php?xml=/tools/tibfonts.xml&l=uva200607171100 Jomolhari font] - designed by [[Christopher Fynn]] based on Bhutanese manuscript examples. Primarily intended for printing texts. 
 
On Windows XP & 2000 these fonts currently work with Office 2003 sp1 - though you will also need to install the EWTS [http://www.thdl.org/tools/input.html EWTS Unicode keyboard] or a another [[Tibetan Input Method]]. For information on using the font with other applications please see: THDLs [http://www.thdl.org/xml/showEssay.php?xml=/tools/tibfontuse.xml Instructions for using Tibetan Unicode Fonts in Windows].
 
Windows Vista fully supports both fonts without additional software.
 
=== TCRC Youtso Unicode Free Tibetan Font ===
* [http://www.popdict.com/dict_tibetan.htm#fonts  TCRC Youtso Unicode] – 442 characters (1017 glyphs) in version 1.0 offered for free download from [http://www.popdict.com/dict_tibetan.htm Poppdict.Com] by the Tibetan Computer Resource Centre (TCRC), Dharamsala.
 
=== Platform Independent Fonts===
See also how to create a [[Platform Independent Tibetan Unicode Font]].
 
==Fonts using legacy encodings ==
=== Nithartha-Sambhota ===
 
See [http://www.nitartha.org/software.html their main web site] for more information how to purchase this font set. Just now this font set does not support the Tibetan Unicode standard.
 
=== Tibetan Computer Company (TCC) ===
See [http://www.tibet.dk/tcc/typefacesa.htm their main web site] for more information how to purchase their font sets. Just now these font sets do not support the [[Tibetan Unicode]] standard.
 
=== THDL Free Tibetan Fonts ===
See: [http://www.thdl.org/xml/show.php?xml=/tools/tibfonts.xml their main web site] for how to download various free fonts provided by THDL and Trace Foundation.
* The [http://mayor.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/tools/tm.html Tibetan Machine] font is an original font by Tony Duff, licenced and placed in to the public domain by the Trace Foundation.<br>
* The [http://www.thdl.org/tools/tmw.html Tibetan Machine Web] font is a version of the same font re-encoded to support display of Tibetan text on legacy browsers.
* The [http://www.thdl.org/xml/show.php?xml=/tools/tibfonts.xml&l=uva10928423419921 Tibetan Machine Uni] font is a much extended version supporting the Tibetan Unicode standard ''(see above)''.

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