Alphabetum

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ALPHABETUM is a large Unicode font (TTF, TrueType format, with 7,877 characters in version 15.00 as of January 2024) and it has been specifically designed to type classical and medieval languages. In addition this font supports most of the European languages, including those which uses the Cyrillic alphabet.

The main languages and scripts which ALPHABETUM supports are: classic & medieval Latin, ancient Greek, Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, Messapic, Picene), Gothic, Iberian, Celtiberian, old & middle English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Runic, Ogham, Ugaritic, Anatolian scripts (Lydian, Lycian, Carian, Phrygian, Sidetic), Inscriptional Parthian, Meroitic, Old Persian cuneiform, Coptic, Glagolitic, Phoenician, Old Cyrillic, Old Church Slavonic, Linear B, Brahmi, Inscriptional Pahlavi, Old Turkic, Kharosthi, Cypriot, Avestan, Imperial Aramaic, Old Hungarian (rovásírás), Old Permic, Elamaic, Ancient Greek musical notation, Ancient Greek acrophonic numerals, New Testament editorial symbols, Ancient Greek papyrological numbers, Phaistos Disc, Byzantine musical symbols, Aegean numbers and old & medieval Nordic.

The ALPHABETUM website provides an extensive user's manual in both English and Spanish. Several different types of license and a free trial version are available.

Palaeographic Greek and palaeographic Latin fonts are also included.