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Macintosh Unicode Diacritic Fonts

Contributor(s): Than Grove

Unicode is fully implemented only with Mac OS X. Previous operating systems on the Mac do not have the capability to provide the full range of diacritics used in Asian studies. The information provided here is a summary of information found at Alan Wood's Unicode fonts for Macintosh OS X computers. The fonts listed have not been reviewed by the THL and therefore are not rated.

Andika SIL

• Availability: Available from SIL under their OpenFont License.
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• Quality of appearance: Good for both screen and printing.
• Diacritic coverage: All — Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Latin Extended-C and Latin Extended Additional.
• Rating: Not Yet Rated

Charis SIL

• Availability: Available from SIL under their OpenFont License.
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• Quality of appearance: Good for both screen and printing.
• Diacritic coverage: All — Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Latin Extended-C and Latin Extended Additional.
• Rating: Not Yet Rated

Doulos SIL

• Availability: Available from SIL under their OpenFont License.
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• Quality of appearance: Good for both screen and printing.
• Diacritic coverage: All — Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Latin Extended-C and Latin Extended Additional.
• Rating: Not Yet Rated

Gentium

• Availability: Available for free from SIL.
• Quality of appearance: Excellent.
• Diacritic coverage: All — Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, and Latin Extended Additional.
• Other script coverage: IPA Extensions, Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek, and Cyrillic.
• Rating: Excellent.

Gentium Plus SIL

• Availability: Available from SIL under their OpenFont License.
  • Documentation
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• Quality of appearance: Good for both screen and printing.
• Diacritic coverage: All — Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Latin Extended-C and Latin Extended Additional.
• Rating: Not Yet Rated

Lucida Grande

• Availability: Included with Mac OS X 10.1
• Quality of appearance: Not yet reviewed.
• Diacritic coverage: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, and Latin Extended Additional.
• Other script coverage: Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek, and Cyrillic.
• Rating: screen appearance and printed appearance good

Minion Pro

• Availability: Available from to buy from the Adobe Typekit Site.
• Quality of appearance: Professional
• Diacritic coverage: Contains most of the necessary diacritics for Indo-Tibetan studies.
• Other script coverage: None.
• Rating: Not yet rated.

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