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Special Unicode derivatives and then legacy encoded fonts are found at the end of the page. (Most of our legacy fonts have been updated to a Unicode version.)</p> <h2 id="unicode">Unicode Fonts</h2> <h3>Global Fonts</h3> <table class="products"></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/09/icon-160-f.gentium.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek Fonts" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../lcgfonts/">Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic Fonts</a></div><br /><div class="desc">SIL's Writing Systems Technology team has created very comprehensive fonts for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek script character sets: Andika, Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Galatia SIL, and Gentium Plus.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/andika/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2015/12/icon-80-f.andika.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Andika" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../andika/">Andika</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A sans serif Latin and Cyrillic script font designed especially for literacy use and the needs of beginning readers. The focus is on clear letterforms that will not be easily confused with one another.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/charis/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2015/09/icon-160-f.charis.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Charis SIL" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../charis/">Charis SIL</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A serif Latin and Cyrillic script font, similar to Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed specifically for laser printers. It is proportionally-spaced and optimized for readability, and holds up well in less-than-ideal reproduction environments.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/doulos/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/12/icon-80-f.doulos.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Doulos SIL" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../doulos/">Doulos SIL</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A serif font similar in design to Times/Times New Roman. It contains a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any writing system based on Latin or Cyrillic script, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/gentium/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2015/12/icon-80-f.gentium.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Gentium" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../gentium/">Gentium</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A serif typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin- and Cyrillic-based alphabets.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/Galatia" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="//software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/icon_galatia.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/Galatia">Galatia SIL</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A font family containing most of the symbols defined in Unicode 3.1 for Latin-1, Greek (excluding Coptic), Macintosh Character Set (US Roman), and 850WE/Latin-1.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://scripts.sil.org/ApparatusSIL" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="//software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/icon_apparatus.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://scripts.sil.org/ApparatusSIL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apparatus SIL</a></div><br /><div class="desc">Designed to provide most of the symbols needed to reproduce the textual apparatus found in major editions of Greek & Hebrew biblical texts.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/doulos-sil-cipher" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="//software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/icon_doulossilcipher.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/doulos-sil-cipher">Doulos SIL Cipher</a></div><br /><div class="desc">Developed to represent Cipher music notation, used throughout Indonesia and China for all kinds of music. </div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=UnicodeBMPFallbackFont" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="//software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/icon_unicodebmpfallback.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=UnicodeBMPFallbackFont" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unicode BMP Fallback</a></div><br /><div class="desc">Intended for debugging, this font contains a glyph for every character in the Basic Multilingual plane (including Private Use Area) of Unicode 6.1, each glyph consisting of a box enclosing the four hex digits identifying the Unicode scalar value.</div></td></tr></p> <p></table> <h3>East and Southeast Asia Fonts</h3> <table class="products fonts"></p> <p><tr><td><a href="../daibanna/"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/icon-80-f.daibanna.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="/daibanna">Dai Banna</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A font package for rendering the New Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna Dai) script. It includes a complete set of New Tai Lue consonants, vowels, tones, and digits, along with punctuation and other useful symbols.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/kayphodu/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/68/2022/10/icon-80-kayphodu-1.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Kay Pho Du" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/kayphodu/">Kay Pho Du</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A font family for the Kayah Li (Karenni) script of Southeast Asia.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/lisubosa/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/67/2023/02/icon-80-lisubosa.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Lisu Bosa" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/lisubosa/">Lisu Bosa</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A family of fonts for the Lisu (Fraser) script of Southeast Asia.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/Mondulkiri" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="//software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/icon_mondulkiri.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/Mondulkiri">Mondulkiri</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A font family for the Khmer script of Cambodia.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="../nokyung/"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/icon_80t.nokyung.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/Nokyung">Nokyung</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A different style for the New Tai Lue script which is used by the Xishuangbanna Dai language of Yunnan, China.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/nuosu" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="//software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/icon_nuosu.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/nuosu">Nuosu SIL</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A font for the standardized Yi script used by a large ethnic group in southwestern China.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/padauk/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2016/06/icon-80-padauk.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Padauk" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../padauk/">Padauk</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A fully capable Unicode 9 font supporting all the Myanmar script characters in the standard, thereby also providing support for minority languages, in both local and Burmese rendering style.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/payaplanna/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2022/08/icon-80-payaplanna-a.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Payap Lanna" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/payaplanna/">Payap Lanna</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A traditional-style font for the Tai Tham script of Southeast Asia.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="../shimenkan/"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/icon-80.shimenkan.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/shimenkan/">Shimenkan</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A family of fonts that support the broad variety of writing systems that use the Miao (Pollard) script. Includes language-specific font families, such as Salaowu, Sapushan, and Taogu.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/taiheritage/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2017/09/icon-80-f.taiheritage.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Tai Heritage Pro" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/taiheritage/">Tai Heritage Pro</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A font designed to reflect the traditional hand-written style of the Tai Viet script, which is used by the Tai Dam, Tai Daeng and Tai Don people who live in northwestern Vietnam and surrounding areas.</div></td></tr></p> <p></table> <h3 id="south">South Asia Fonts</h3> <table class="products"></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/annapurna/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2015/03/icon-160-f.annapurn-1.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Annapurna SIL" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../annapurna/">Annapurna SIL</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A font family with support for the many diverse languages that use Devanagari script.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/kanchenjunga/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="58" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/71/2023/08/cropped-cropped-icon-80-kanchenjunga.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Kanchenjunga" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../kanchenjunga/">Kanchenjunga</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A font family for the Kirat Rai script used to write the Bantawa language.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/Mingzat" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="//software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/icon_mingzat.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/Mingzat">Mingzat</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A font for the script used by the Lepcha language of South Asia.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/Namdhinggo" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="//software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/icon_namdhinggo.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/Namdhinggo">Namdhinggo</a></div><br /><div class="desc">Used by around 400,000 people in Nepal and India, this font has been designed to support literacy and materials development in the Limbu script and language.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="../narnoor/"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/icon_80.narnoor.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/Narnoor">Narnoor</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A font for the Gunjala Gondi script which is used by the Gondi (Adilabad) language.</div></td></tr></p> <p></table> <h3 id="middle">Middle East Fonts</h3> <table class="products"></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/arabicfonts/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2016/03/icon-80-f.scheherazade.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Arabic Fonts" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../arabicfonts/">Arabic Fonts</a></div><br /><div class="desc">SIL's Writing Systems Technology team has created a number of fonts for use in writing Arabic script: Alkalami, Awami Nastaliq, Harmattan, Lateef, and Scheherazade New.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/alkalami/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2017/03/icon.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Alkalami" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../alkalami/">Alkalami</a></div><br /><div class="desc">Designed for Arabic-based writing systems in the Kano region of Nigeria and Niger.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/awami/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2022/09/awami_icon.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Awami Nastaliq" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../awami/">Awami Nastaliq</a></div><br /><div class="desc">Awami Nastaliq is a Nastaliq-style Arabic script font supporting a wide variety of languages of southwest Asia, including but not limited to Urdu. This font is aimed at minority language support. This makes it unique among Nastaliq fonts.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/ezra" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="//software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/icon_ezra.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/ezra">Ezra SIL</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A typeface fashioned after the square letter forms of the typography of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), a beautiful Old Testament volume familiar to Biblical Hebrew scholars. The font supports the Hebrew and Latin-1 characters from Unicode 5.0.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/harmattan/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2016/03/icon-80-f.harmattan.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Harmattan" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../harmattan/">Harmattan</a></div><br /><div class="desc">Named after the trade winds that blow during the winter in West Africa, is designed in a Warsh style of Arabic script suitable to the needs of languages in West Africa.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/lateef/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2016/03/icon-80-f.lateef.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Lateef" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../lateef/">Lateef</a></div><br /><div class="desc">An extended Arabic script font named after Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai, the famous Sindhi mystic and poet. It was designed by SIL International for computer systems using OpenType for complex-script rendering.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/ruwudu/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/62/2022/06/icon.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Ruwudu" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../ruwudu/">Ruwudu</a></div><br /><div class="desc">Ruwudu is the Manga word for “writing”. This style of writing is used by the Manga people in Niger, West Africa. This font was initially designed as a lighter or companion version of Alkalami Regular.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/03/icon-80-f.scheherazade.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Scheherazade" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/scheherazade">Scheherazade New</a></div><br /><div class="desc">Named after the heroine of the classic Arabian Nights tale, Scheherazade New for Arabic script was designed by SIL International for systems using either OpenType or Graphite for complex-script rendering.</div></td></tr></p> <p></table> <h3 id="africa">Africa Fonts</h3> <table class="products"></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/abyssinica/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2019/09/icon-80-f.abyssinica2.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Abyssinica SIL" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../abyssinica/">Abyssinica SIL</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A font based on Ethiopic calligraphic traditions. It supports all Ethiopic characters up to and including the new Unicode 14.0 additions. As far as we know, all languages using the Ethiopic script are now fully represented in Unicode.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="../akatab/"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/icon-80.akatab.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../akatab/">Akatab</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A Unicode font for rendering Tifinagh script characters in the Tamahaq, Tamashek, and Tawallammat languages.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/kedebideri/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/73/2024/06/Kedebideri-icons-80x80-1.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Kedebideri" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../kedebideri/">Kedebideri</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A font for the Beria Erfe script which is used by the Zaghawa Beria language. The script is built around a sampling of traditional animal brands.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/SophiaNubian" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" class="custom-logo" src="//software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/icon_sophianubian.png" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="https://software.sil.org/SophiaNubian">Sophia Nubian</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A sans serif font whose primary purpose is to provide adequate representation for Nubian languages that use the Coptic script Unicode character set.</div></td></tr></p> <p><tr><td><a href="https://software.sil.org/tagmukay/" class="custom-logo-link" rel="home"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/sites/47/2017/03/icon-1.png" class="custom-logo" alt="Tagmukay" /></a></td><td><div class="title"><a href="../tagmukay/">Tagmukay</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A high-quality font for Shifinagh script that supports the Tawallammat dialect of Tamajaq.</div></td></tr></p> <p></table> <h2 id="special">Special Unicode Derivative Fonts</h2> <p>We have created subsets of our <em>Latin and Cyrillic</em> fonts for different regions of the world. See <a class="external" title="" href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/font-subsets/">Font Subsets</a> for further information.</p> <p>There are also fonts created using TypeTuner Web to choose particular features. See the <a class="external" title="" href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/">Modified Fonts for Special Uses</a> section of the linked page for further information.</p> <h2 id="legacy">Legacy Fonts</h2> <p>As stated above, most of the following fonts have been updated to a Unicode-compliant version. (Previous versions of Ezra, Galatia, and Namdhinggo can be found on their respective pages listed above.) If you have data written using a legacy font, we <em>strongly</em> recommend converting that data to a Unicode font. We have a text encoding conversion toolkit specifically for that task: <a title="" href="https://software.sil.org/teckit/">TECkit</a>.</p> <ul> <li><a title="" href="https://scripts.sil.org/NumbersFont" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Legacy Encode-Numbers (Obsolete)</a></li> <li><a title="" href="https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Nastaliq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nastaliq Navees (Obsolete)</a></li> <li><a title="" href="https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=SILAp_home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SIL Apparatus (Obsolete)</a></li> <li><a title="" href="https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=SILEncoreFonts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SIL Encore (Obsolete)</a></li> <li><a title="" href="https://scripts.sil.org/encore-ipa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SIL IPA (Obsolete)</a></li> <li><a title="" href="https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=SILTD_home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SIL Tai Dam (Obsolete)</a></li> <li><a title="" href="https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=SILDB_home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SIL Dai Banna (Obsolete)</a></li> <li><a title="" href="https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=SILVai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SIL Vai</a></li> <li><a title="" href="https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=ZaghawaBeria_Home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zaghawa Beria</a></li> </ul> <h2>No longer supported</h2> <table class="products">  <tr><td><div class="title"><a href="/shishan">ShiShan</a></div><br /><div class="desc">A family of Unicode fonts for the <em>Miao (Pollard) script</em>.</div></td></tr><br /> </table> <div class="top"><a href="#top">top</a></div> </div> </section> </article> </div> <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <nav id="sidebar_main" class="nav menu"> <div> <div class="textwidget"><img class="sps-sidebar-logo" src="https://software.sil.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/SIL-Glyph-Logo-80px.png" title="Fonts"></div> </div><div><div class="menu-sil_fonts-container"><ul id="menu-sil_fonts" class="menu"><li id="menu-item-4152" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-has-children menu-item-4152"><a href="#unicode">Unicode Fonts</a> <ul class="sub-menu"> <li id="menu-item-7969" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-7969"><a href="#global">Global Fonts</a></li> <li id="menu-item-7971" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-7971"><a href="#east-se-asia">East and Southeast Asia Fonts</a></li> <li id="menu-item-7973" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-7973"><a href="#south">South Asia Fonts</a></li> <li id="menu-item-7974" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-7974"><a href="#middle">Middle East Fonts</a></li> <li id="menu-item-7975" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-7975"><a href="#africa">Africa Fonts</a></li> </ul> </li> <li id="menu-item-4153" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-4153"><a href="#special">Special Interest Fonts</a></li> <li id="menu-item-4154" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-4154"><a href="#legacy">Legacy Encoded Fonts</a></li> <li id="menu-item-5205" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-5205"><a href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/guides/">Font Help Guides</a></li> <li id="menu-item-4151" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-4151"><a href="https://software.sil.org/software-products/">Other Software</a></li> </ul></div></div> </nav> </div> </div> </div> </section> <div class="footer-top-bg"> <aside id="license"> <div class="container fullwidth"> <div> <div class="textwidget"><p>Most SIL software is free to use, modify and redistribute according to the terms of open licenses such as the <a class="external" href="https://openfontlicense.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SIL Open Font License</a> and the <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MIT License</a>. 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