Unicode font explained

A Unicode font is a computer font that maps glyphs to code points defined in the Unicode Standard.^[1] The vast majority of modern computer fonts use Unicode mappings, even those fonts which only include glyphs for a single writing system, or even only support the basic Latin alphabet. Fonts which support a wide range of Unicode scripts and Unicode symbols are sometimes referred to as "pan-Unicode fonts", although as the maximum number of glyphs that can be defined in a TrueType font is restricted to 65,535, it is not possible for a single font to provide individual glyphs for all defined Unicode characters (). This article lists some widely used Unicode fonts (shipped with an operating system or produced by a well-known commercial font company) that support a comparatively large number and broad range of Unicode characters.

Background

The Unicode standard does not specify or create any font (typeface), a collection of graphical shapes called glyphs, itself. Rather, it defines the abstract characters as a specific number (known as a code point) and also defines the required changes of shape depending on the context the glyph is used in (e.g., combining characters, precomposed characters and letter-diacritic combinations). The choice of font, which governs how the abstract characters in the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) are converted into a bitmap or vector output that can then be viewed on a screen or printed, is left up to the user. If a font is chosen which does not contain a glyph for a code point used in the document, it typically displays a question mark, a box, or some other substitute character.

Computer fonts use various techniques to display characters or glyphs. A bitmap font contains a grid of dots known as pixels forming an image of each glyph in each face and size. Outline fonts (also known as vector fonts) use drawing instructions or mathematical formulæ to describe each glyph. Stroke fonts use a series of specified lines (for the glyph's border) and additional information to define the profile, or size and shape of the line in a specific face and size, which together describe the appearance of the glyph.

Fonts also include embedded special orthographic rules to output certain combinations of letterforms (an alternative symbols for the same letter) be combined into special ligature forms (mixed characters). Operating systems, web browsers (user agent), and other software that extensively use typography, use a font to display text on the screen or print media, and can be programmed to use those embedded rules. Alternatively, they may use external script-shaping technologies (rendering technology or “smart font” engine), and they can also be programmed to use either a large Unicode font, or use multiple different fonts for different characters or languages.

No single "Unicode font" includes all the characters defined in the present revision of ISO 10646 (Unicode) standard, as more and more languages and charactersare continually added to it, and common font formats cannot contain more than 65,535 glyphs (about half the number of characters encoded in Unicode). As a result, font developers and foundries incorporate new characters in newer versions or revisions of a font, or in separate auxiliary fonts intended specifically for particular languages.

UCS has over 1.1 million code points, but only the first 65,536 (the Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane, or BMP) had entered into common use before 2000.

See the Unicode planes article for more information on other planes, including: Plane 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP), Plane 2: Supplementary Ideographic Plane (SIP), Plane 14: Supplementary Special-purpose Plane (SSP), Plane 15 and 16: reserved for Private Use Areas (PUA).

The first Unicode fonts (with very large character sets and supporting many Unicode blocks) were Lucida Sans Unicode (released March 1993), Unihan font (1993), and Everson Mono (1995).

Issues

There are typographical ambiguities in Unicode, so that some of the unified Han characters (seen in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) will be typographically different in different regions. For example, Unicode point is typographically different between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese. This has implications for the idea that a single typeface can satisfy the needs of all locales.^[2] The design of Unicode ensures that such differences do not create semantic ambiguity, but the use of incorrect forms is often considered visually awkward or aesthetically inappropriate to native readers of East Asian languages.

Application of Unicode fonts

Unicode is now the standard encoding for many new standards and protocols, and is built into the architecture of operating systems (Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS, and many versions of Unix and Linux), programming languages (Ada, Perl, Python, Java, Common LISP, APL), and libraries (IBM International Components for Unicode (ICU), along with the Pango, Graphite, Scribe, Uniscribe, and ATSUI rendering engines), font formats (TrueType and OpenType) and so on. Many other standards are also getting upgraded to be Unicode-compliant.

Utility software

Here is a selection of some of the utility software that can identify the characters present in a font file:

• Character Map, applet included with Microsoft Windows
• Font Book, application included with Mac OS
• GNOME Character Map, application included with the GNOME desktop environment
• BabelMap, third-party software for Windows

List of Unicode fonts

Of the many Unicode fonts available, those listed below are the most commonly used worldwide on mainstream computing platforms.

List of Unicode Fonts

Font	Chars	Glyphs	Kernpairs (standard)	Point (range) : hinting/smoothing behavior	Version & date	Filename, size	Font family	Font weight, style	Font type	Serif style	License	Creator / author (copyright)	Notes
Arial	3,988	3,988	909		v6.80 2012-05-11	arial.ttf (756 KB)	Arial	Medium (Normal), Regular	OTF+TTO	Normal Sans
Arial Unicode MS	38,917	50,377	0		v1.01 sfnt rev 1 2002-11-18	ARIALUNI.TTF (22.1 MB)	Arial Unicode MS^[3]	Medium (Normal), Regular	OTF+TTO	Normal Sans		Agfa Monotype Corporation. Monotype Corporation.
Bitstream Cyberbit	32,961	29,934	935		v2.0 beta 1998-03-22	Cyberbit.ttf (12.7 MB)	Bitstream Cyberbit	Medium (Normal), Roman		Cove
BitstreamCyberCJK	30,275	28,686	935		v2.0 beta 1998-03-17	Cyberbit.ttf (12.4 MB)	Bitstream CyberCJK	Medium (Normal), Book, Roman		Cove		Bitstream Inc.
Brampton	1,916	1,979	0		v0.16 2011-09-22	Brampton.ttf (622 kB)	Brampton			Slab serif		Christ Trek fonts
Cardo	2,879	2,882	216		v0.099 sfnt rev 0.098999 2010-05-23	Cardo99s.ttf (706 KB)	Cardo	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular		Cove	OFL v1.1	David J. Perry
Caslon Roman	3,683	3,686	0		v001.000 2003-10-23	(3.70 MB)	Caslon	Roman			-like license	George Williams
Charis SIL	2,172	4,661	0		v4.106 sfnt rev 4.106 2009-03-18	CharisSILR.ttf (1.57 MB)	Charis SIL	Medium (Normal), Regular				SIL International
Chryſanþi Unicode (Chrysanthi Unicode)	4,818	4,383	0		v3.1 2001-07-15	chrysuni.ttf (737 KB)	Chrysanthi Unicode	Medium (Normal), Regular				Dolgthrasir Mioethdrauci. Every Witch Way.
ClearlyU		9,538	0		v1.9 2002-11-22	cu12.bdf (1.13 MB)	ClearlyU	Medium				Mark Leisher.
Code2000	53,068	63,546	239		v1.171 sfnt rev 1.1709 2008-06-12	CODE2000.TTF (7.98 MB)	Code2000	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular			Shareware (unrestricted)	James Kass
DejaVu Sans	5,467	5,762	2,637		v2.32 sfnt rev 2.31999 2010-08-22	DejaVuSans.ttf (667 KB)	DejaVu Sans	Medium (Normal), Book	OTF+TTO	Normal Sans	Bitstream Vera license and public domain for additions	Bitstream, Inc. Tavmjong Bah. public domain.
Doulos SIL	2,172	4,661	0		v4.106 2009-03-18	DoulosSILR.ttf (1.64 MB)	Doulos SIL	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular				SIL International
Everson Mono	6,391	6,399	0		v5.203 sfnt rev v5.203 2010-07-03	Everson Mono.ttf (1.91 MB)	Everson Mono	Medium (Normal), Regular			Shareware (unrestricted)
Gentium Regular	1,469	1,699	2,857		v1.02; 2005; sfnt rev 1.02 2005-11-20	GenR102.TTF (354 KB)	Gentium	Book, Regular				J. Victor Gaultney. SIL International
Gentium Plus	2,513	5,586	0		v1.502 sfnt rev 1.502 2010-8-19	GentiumPlus-R.ttf (1.54 MB)	Gentium Plus	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular				SIL International
GNU FreeFont	7,203	8,995	36,302		v0412.2263 sfnt rev 412.226 (FreeSerif) 2012-05-03	FreeSerif.ttf (3.2MiB) FreeSans.ttf (1.5MiB) FreeMono.ttf (572KiB)	FreeSerif FreeSans FreeMono	Medium (Normal)		Cove
GNU Unifont (Unifont)	63,446	63,449	0		v15.0.062015-6-4	(12MiB) (2.2MiB)	unifont	Medium (Normal)	Bitmap, TTF,OTF			Roman Czyborra
HAN NOM A, HAN NOM B	32,328 45,020	34,147 45,175	0 0		v2.0; 2005 sfnt rev 2 2005-02-05	(20.3 MB) (32.2 MB)	HAN NOM A HAN NOM B	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular		No Fit		Chan Nguyen, Thien Vien Chieu, To Minh Tam
Horta	1,858	1,988	0		v0.7 2016-05-16	Horta demo.ttf (127 kB)	Horta			Sans		Christ Trek fonts
Junicode	3,022	3,096			v0.6.17 sfnt rev 0.599991 2009-07-11	(752 KB)	Junicode	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular				Peter S. Baker
Kelvinch	3,525	3,516			V3.1 2016-04-03		Kelvinch	Roman (Normal) Italic Bold Bold-Italic	OTF+TTO	Oblique Square Cove		Paul J. Miller
Linux Libertine	2,549	2,552	0		v4.7.5 sfnt rev 4.7 2010-06-15	(893 KB)	Linux Libertine	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular	OTF+TTO			Philipp H. Poll
Lucida Grande	2,245	2,826	0		v5.0d8e1 sfnt rev 1.2 2003-03-07	Lucida Grande.ttf (1.07 MB)	Lucida Grande	Medium (Normal), Regular	OTF	Normal Sans		Bigelow & Holmes Inc
Lucida Sans Unicode	1,765	1,776	0		v2.00 1998-08-12	l_10646.ttf (316 KB)	Lucida Sans	Medium (Normal), Regular	OTF+TTO	Normal Sans		Bigelow & Holmes Inc
Microsoft JhengHei	28,958	29,220	583		v6.02 sfnt rev 6.02 2009-02-25	msjh.ttf (20.6 MB)	Microsoft JhengHei	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular	OTF+TTO	Normal Sans
Microsoft Sans Serif	2,788	3,077	0		v5.02 sfnt rev 5.02 2009-02-12	micross.ttf (637 KB)	Microsoft Sans Serif	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular	OTF+TTO	Normal Sans		Microsoft Corporation
New Gulim	46,567	49,284	0		v3.10 sfnt rev 1 2002-10-29	nGulim.ttf (24.5 MB)	New Gulim	Medium (Normal), Regular		Normal Sans. Obtuse Cove		HanYang System Co., LTD.
Noto	65,535	65,535	0	N/A	1.001	N/A	Noto	Thin, Light, DemiLight, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black		Normal Sans		Google
PragmataPro	6,148	7,414	0		0.824 2016-09-16	PragmataProR_0824.ttf (1.5 MB)	PragmataPro	Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic, Mono Regular, Mono Bold, Mono Italic, Mono Bold Italic,		Normal Sans
Quivira	11,053	10,486	0		v4.1	Quivira.otf (1.41 MB)	Quivira	Normal		Cove		Alexander Lange
Segoe UI Regular		5,008	8,293		v5.32 2013-07-30	segoeui.ttf (822 KB)	Segoe UI	Regular				Microsoft Corporation
Squarish Sans CT	1,609	1,757	0		v0.10 2011-09-22	Squarish Sans CT Regular.ttf (106 kB)	Squarish Sans CT			Sans		Christ Trek fonts
STIX	3,290	3,292	1,016		v1.0.0 sfnt rev 1.0 2010-04-29	STIXGeneral.otf (404 KB)	STIXGeneral	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular	OTF
Sun-ExtA, Sun-ExtB	50,112 47,564	50,016 47,660	0 0		(A) v5.4 sfnt rev 5 2009-01-03 (B) v5.4 sfnt rev 5.39999 2009-02-02	Sun-ExtA.ttf (21.9 MB) Sun-ExtB.ttf (16.8 MB)	Sun-ExtA Sun-ExtB	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular		No Fit	Both Freeware. Proprietary	okuc. Beijing ZhongYi Electronics Co.
Tahoma	1,912	3,412	674		v5.06 2009-02-12	tahoma.ttf (681 KB)	Tahoma (typeface)	Medium (Normal), Regular	OTF+TTO	Normal Sans		Microsoft Corporation
Times New Roman	2,790	3,414	867		v5.05 2009-02-06	times.ttf (816 KB)	Times New Roman	Medium (Normal), Regular	OTF+TTO	Cove	Proprietary;	The Monotype Corporation.
TITUS Cyberbit Basic	9,209	10,044	0		v3.0 (2000) sfnt rev 4 2005-10-08	TITUSCBZ.TTF (1.91 MB)	TITUS Cyberbit Basic	Medium (Normal), Regular		Cove		Bitstream Inc / TITUS project.
WenQuanYi Bitmap Song^[4]	41,295	154,997	0		1.0.0-RC1		WenQuanYi Bitmap Song	Regular	Multi-strike Bitmap Font	Song(Serif) Style for Chinese
WenQuanYi Micro Hei^[5]	34,707	48,755	0		0.2.0-beta		WenQuanYi Micro Hei and WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono	Regular, Light		Hei(Sans) Style for Chinese
WenQuanYi Zen Hei^[6]	42,285	43,643	0		v0.9.45 sfnt rev 0.89994 2010-03-11	wqy-zenhei.ttc (16.0 MB)	WenQuanYi Zen Hei, WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono and WenQuanYi Zen Hei Sharp	Medium, Regular		Hei(Sans) Style for Chinese		Qianqian Fang and WenQuanYi Board of Trustees.
Y.OzFontN	21,957	57,621	0		v13.00 sfnt rev 5 Pen-Ji 2010-08-24	YOzRN.TTC (13.5 MB)	YOzFontN	Regular				Y.OzVox
XITS	3,290	3,292	1,016		v1.0.10 2011-04-25	xits-regular.otf (247 KB)	XITS	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular	OTF
Font	Char(s)	Glyphs	Kernpairs (standard)	Point (range) : hinting/smoothing behavior	Version & date	Filename, size	Font family	Font weight, style	Font type	Serif style	License	Creator / author (copyright)	Notes

Note

OTF+TTO: OpenType font with TrueType outlines.

OpenType fonts sometimes don't contain a one-by-one kernpair table but a kern-by-classes table where groups of similar characters are seen as one kern group. For instance, V and W have nearly the same left and right geometry. So “0” doesn't mean that no kerning is supported.

Register after "reasonable" period (author's words).

Includes more than 27,000 Hanzi glyphs from WenQuanYi Bitmap Song font.

Han Nom A covers mainly CJK U Ideographs Ext A, and Han Nom B covers mostly Ext B.

Sun-Ext A covers 102 blocks of different languages. Sun-ExtB covers mostly CJK Supplement, CJK U Ideographs Ext B, C, TaiXuan Jing.

Zen Hei, Zen Hei Mono and Zen Hei Sharp co-exist in a single TTC file; also with embedded bitmaps. Latin/Hangul derived from UnDotum, Bopomofo derived from cwTeX, mono-spaced Latin from M+ M2 Light. Full CJK coverage. Included with Fedora Linux, Ubuntu Linux.

Comparison of fonts

Number of characters included by the above version of fonts, for different Unicode blocks are listed below. Basic Latin (128:) means that in the range called 'Basic Latin', there are 128 assigned codes, numbered 0 to 7F. The cells then show the number of those codes which are covered by each font. Unicode blocks listed are valid for Unicode version 8.0.

Cells shaded green indicate complete coverage.

Cells shaded blue are not complete, but are the most complete of the fonts listed.

Empty cells indicate that no character exists in that block.

0000–077F

Unicode Fonts

BMP (Plane 0)
Font  Range																													BLOCK NAME (total glyph count: hex range)	Arial	Arial Uni MS	Bitstream Cyberbit	Cardo	Caslon Roman	Code2000	Charis SIL	Chrysanthi Uni	ClearlyU	DejaVuSans	Doulos SIL	Everson Mono	GNU FreeFont	Gentium Plus	GNU Unifont	Junicode	Linux Libertine	Lucida Grande	Lucida Sans Uni	MS JhengHei	MS Sans Serif	New Gulim	Sun-ExtA	Tahoma (typeface)	Times New Roman	TITUS Cyberbit Basic	WenQuanYi Zen Hei	Y.OzFontN -->
Non-Unicode Glyphs	703			23				1		295		8			4	76	3	589		263	443			624	704	866		954
Unassigned Code Points (0000-10FFFF)			261		2		1	10		2	1	7	1	1		1	2	1		1		32	67			1	37	118
Total Characters in BMP (61,589:)
C0 Control Character (32:)			31				1				1		1	1	31			1		1		31	31
Basic Latin (95:)
Delete Character (1: 007F-007F)
C1 Control Character (32: 0080-009F)
Latin-1 Supplement (96:)	94		95						95												94			94	94		95
Latin Extended-A (128:)				127																8							29
Latin Extended-B (208:)		148		52	178		188	188	178		188					182	194	183	119	1		7				183	8	28
IPA Extensions (96:)		89			94			94	94							94			89									55
Spacing Modifier Letters (80:)		57	79		63		75	63	62	63	75			75		63			57	12		10					11	14
Combining Diacritical Marks (112:)		72			82		103	82	82	93	103			107		109	111	106	68	1	109			110		106		32
Greek and Coptic (135:)	126	105	134	124	110	134	17	76	110	134	17		134	120		80	110	106	91	117	126	73	127	123	126	117	72	76
Cyrillic (256:)	254	226	253	2	238		214	238	244		214			214			230	244	153		254	94	253	254	254	246	92	66
Cyrillic Supplement (48:)	24				16	36	34		16	36	34	38		34				16			24		20	24	24	15
Armenian (89:)		85			85	86		84	86	86		86											86	86		86
Hebrew (87:)		82	46	86	82	86		60	82	54							53	82	51							83
Arabic (255:)	225	194	60	10		185		69	201	161			252								232		225	225	225	183
Syriac (77:)						50
Arabic Supplement (48:)	30																				30			30	30
Range Font   Range

0780–139F

Range Font   Range
Thaana (50:)
NKo (59:)										54
Samaritan (61:)
Mandaic (29:)
Arabic Extended-A (50:)
Devanagari (128:)		104				112		104	103														105			106
Bengali (93:)		89				91		89															90
Gurmukhi (79:)		75																					77
Gujarati (85:)		78				83		78															78
Oriya (90:)		79				84																	79
Tamil (72:)		61				71																	70
Telugu (96:)		80											42										80
Kannada (87:)		80
Malayalam (100:)		78				95																	78
Sinhala (90:)
Thai (87:)					86					1
Lao (67:)		65				65			65	65													65
Tibetan (211:)		168						168	55														193
Myanmar (Burmese) (160:)						156																	78
Georgian (88:)		78		1		83			78	83			83			1							78			83
Hangul Jamo Choseong (96: 1100-115F)		91				91			91																		47
Hangul Jamo Jungseong (72: 1160-11A7)		67				67																					37
Hangul Jamo Jongseong (88: 11A8-11FF)		82				82																82	82				62
Ethiopic (Ge'ez) (358:)						356			345				345										345			346
Ethiopic Supplement (Ge'ez) (26:)
Range Font   Range

13A0–1DBF

Range Font   Range
Cherokee (92:)					85	85			85				85		85								85
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (640:)					29				630	433																29
Ogham (29:)
Runic (89:)				81	81	81		81	81				81		81	81							81			81		1
Tagalog (Baybayin) (20:)
Hanunoo (Hanunó'o) (23:)						2																	2
Buhid (20:)
Tagbanwa (18:)
Khmer (114:)																							103					1
Mongolian (156:)						155																	155
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended (70:)					29	19																	19
Limbu (68:)
Tai Le (35:)
New Tai Lue (Tai Lü) (83:)
Khmer Symbols (32:)
Buginese (30:)
Tai Tham (127:)
Combining Diacritical Marks Extended (15:)
Balinese (121:)
Sundanese (64:)
Batak (56:)
Lepcha (74:)
Ol Chiki (48:)
Sundanese Supplement (8:)
Vedic Extensions (41:)
Phonetic Extensions (128:)				17			109			106	109			110		109	22	108								108
Phonetic Extensions Supplement (64:)										38							3
Range Font   Range

1DC0–257F

Range Font   Range
Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement (58:)	13			2		13	5			6	5		33	5	43	26					13		13	13	13
Latin Extended Additional (256:)	247	246	96	88	246			246	246	252								246	8		247	8	246	247	247	247		8
Greek Extended (233:)																232												4
General Punctuation (111:)	54	63	96	65	69	106	74	56	77	107	74		101	74		77	59	85	67	27	45	25	97	44	54	62	20	91
Superscripts and Subscripts (42:)	6	28	34	9	28	29	34	29	28	34	34		34	34		29	34	29	28	1	6	6	34	6	6	29	6	34
Currency Symbols (31: 20A0-20CF)	22	13	25	6	16	22	22	15	16	23	22		26	22	27	2	9	18	12	17	22	4	22	22	22	12	2	18
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols (33:)	1	18			20	28	5		20	7	5			5		1		2			1		27	1	1			27
Letterlike Symbols (80:)	9	57	75	13	59		5	59	59	75	5		77	5		10	31	32	57	4	8	10	77	8	8	10	9	75
Number Forms (60:)	7	48	58	4	49	54	54	49	49	55	54		58	54	58	50	50	49	4	10	5	26	50	5	7	28	30	53
Arrows (112:)	7	91		14	100		19	92	100		19			19			34	20	91	8		13			7	20	12
Mathematical Operators (256:)	16	242	246	24	242		21	242	242		21			21		16	82	18	242	26	13	43		14	16	52	51
Miscellaneous Technical (251:)	4	123	233	36	57	228	27	4	154	65	27		196	27	244	6	14	14	10	1		5	211		4	7	1	209
Control Pictures (39:)		37					1			2	1			1			1	1	37								1	4
Optical Character Recognition (11:)									10
Enclosed Alphanumerics (160:)		139			73				139	10			10				114	1				82				112	139
Box Drawing (128:)	40		115	1																	53		97		40	99	117
Range Font   Range

2580–2DFF

Range Font   Range
Block Elements (32:)	8	22	20		22			22											21	18		8			8	10	20
Geometric Shapes (96:)	16	80	92	8	88		2	95	88		2			2		1	26	18	79	16	7	34		7	16	38	29
Miscellaneous Symbols (256:)	12	106	118	31	108	127		128		128			128		128	4	45		14	6	2	24	125	1	12	25	33	128
Dingbats (Zapf Dingbats) (192:)		160		6	2	174	2	170	1	174	2		191	2	191	12	14	3					174					174
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (48:)				3		28	2			2	2		40				1						16					16
Supplemental Arrows-A (16:)				8			2			23	2			22			4	2						12				28
Braille Patterns (256:)
Supplemental Arrows-B (128:)				6						6
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B (128:)				2						13			68					1
Supplemental Mathematical Operators (256:)							10			72		194	27			1
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (206:)						82				35		1	55															15
Glagolitic (94:)													86
Latin Extended-C (32: 2C60-2C7F)	21					29	12			31	12			12		5	17				21		17	21	21
Coptic (123:)						114							66													114
Georgian Supplement (40:)																										38
Tifinagh (59:)						55				55			57
Ethiopic Extended (79:)
Cyrillic Extended-A (32:)
Range Font   Range

2E00–4DBF

Range Font   Range
Supplemental Punctuation (67:)	1			24		49				6			37		60	22	9				1		1	1	1
CJK Radicals Supplement (115:)
Kangxi Radicals (214:)																											214
Ideographic Description Characters (12:)
CJK Symbols and Punctuation (64:)		57		12	9			40					18									17				31	46	45
Hiragana (93:)		90			90			90					86									83				90	93
Katakana (96:)		94			94			94					92									86				94	95
Bopomofo (41:)		40						37												39			40			37
Hangul Compatibility Jamo (94:)																												1
Kanbun (16:)								14												16							14
Bopomofo Extended (27:)			24			24														24			24				4
CJK Strokes (36:)
Katakana Phonetic Extensions (16:)
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (254:)		202				242			58											1		58	232				206	179
CJK Compatibility (256:)		249						105												11		80	249				154
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A (6,582:)								1		64																		180
Range Font   Range

4DC0–FAFF

Range Font   Range
Yijing Hexagram Symbols (64:)										64										6		6
CJK Unified Ideographs (Han Unification) (20,950:)								79
Yi Syllables (1,165:)
Yi Radicals (55:)		0
Lisu (Fraser alphabet) (48:)
Vai (300:)
Cyrillic Extended-B (96:)						78				31			80		89
Bamum (88: A6A0-A6FF)
Modifier Tone Letters (32:)	9						1			20	1			1			1				9		4	9	9
Latin Extended-D (159: A720-A7FF)	7					114	28			57	28		91	28	134	97	3				7		2	7	7
Syloti Nagri (44:)
Common Indic Number Forms (10:)
Phags-pa (56:)
Saurashtra (81:)
Devanagari Extended (30:)
Kayah Li (48:)
Rejang (37:)
Hangul Jamo Extended-A (29:)
Javanese (91:)
Myanmar Extended-B (31:)
Cham (83:)
Myanmar Extended-A (32:)
Tai Viet (72:)
Meetei Mayek Extensions (23:)
Ethiopic Extended-A (32:)
Latin Extended-E (54:)
Cherokee Supplement (80:)
Meetei Mayek (56:)
Hangul Syllables (11,172:)																												6
Hangul Jamo Extended-B (72:)
Private Use Area (6,400:)	55	43	20	565	148		352	788	372	29	229		40	229		961	276	6	16	47			84	55
CJK Compatibility Ideographs (472:)		302	302			437															302	16	466			1	455	363
Range Font   Range

FB00–FFFF

Range Font   Range
Alphabetic Presentation Forms (Latin Lig + Armenian Lig + Hebrew Lig) (58:)	48	57	26	53	42		5	52			5			5		7	7	32	3		48	2		48	48	53		7
Latin Ligatures (7:)	2		2				5	5			5			5				5			2	2		2	2	2
Armenian Ligatures (5:)					1
Hebrew Ligatures / Pointed Letters (46:)	46	45	2		34			42										27
Arabic Presentation Forms-A (611:)	90	593	62			155		22	128	98			169								44			89	89	187		25
Variation Selectors (16:)
Vertical Forms (10:)																											2
Combining Half Marks (16:)	4	4	7			4	4		4	4	4		7	4	7						4		4	4	4
CJK Compatibility Forms (32:)		28				28																	28			27
Small Form Variants (26:)									18							2										25	25
Arabic Presentation Forms-B (141:)	85	139	120			139	1	125	140	140	1							1	1		53			87	85	139
Byte Order Mark (1: FEFF)
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (225:)		223	166		171	186			152													100	224			157	101	172
Latin Full Width Forms (94: FF01-FF5E)					94
KataKana Half Width Forms (63: FF61-FF9F)					63
Hangul Jamo Half Width Forms (52: FFA0-FFDC)						15																	51
Specials (5:)	1	2		1	1	3			1								1	1			2	1	2	2	1
Range Font
BMP (Plane 0)

List of SMP Unicode fonts

List of Unicode fonts supporting SMP characters

Font	Char(s)	Glyphs	Kernpairs (Standard)	Range(Point): Hinting/ Smoothing Behavior	Version & Date	Filename, Size	Font Family	Font Weight, style	Font type	Serif style	License	Creator / Author (Copyright)	Notes
Code2001	2,985	3,135	0		v0.919 sfnt rev 0.918945 2008-04-04	CODE2001.TTF (485 KB)	Code2001	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular		Any	Freeware	James Kass
New Athena Unicode	2,985	2,033	0		v3.710 sfnt rev 3.70999 2010-05-02	newathu.ttf (769 KB)	New Athena Unicode	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular		Any	Freeware. SIL OFL.
MPH 2B Damase	2,743	2,895	192		v002.010 sfnt rev 1 2005-10-18	damase_v.2.ttf (879 KB)	MPH 2B Damase	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular		Any	Freeware.	Public Domain 2005. Mark Williamson.

10000–1F9FF

Unicode blocks listed are valid for Unicode version 8.0.

SMP (Plane 1)
Font   Range																																BLOCK NAME (Max Glyph Count : Hex Range)	Arial	Arial Uni MS	Bitstream Cyberbit	Cardo	Caslon Roman	Code2001	Charis SIL	Chrysanthi Uni	ClearlyU	DejaVuSans	Doulos SIL	Everson Mono	GNU FreeFont	Gentium Plus	GNU Unifont	Junicode	Linux Libertine	Lucida Grande	Lucida Sans Uni	MS JhengHei	MS Sans Serif	MPH 2B Damase	New Athena Uni	New Gulim	STIXGeneral	Sun-ExtB	Tahoma (typeface)	Times New Roman	TITUS Cyberbit Basic	WenQuanYi Zen Hei	Y.OzFontN -->
Total Characters in SMP (11,833: 10000–1FFFF)				222			2			304	2	745		2								649	203		994	87				106	210
Linear B Syllabary (88: 10000–1007F)																						74
Linear B Ideograms (123: 10080–100FF)																						73
Aegean Numbers (57: 10100–1013F)
Ancient Greek Numbers (77: 10140–1018F)				75									5		75								75
Ancient Symbols (13: 10190–101CF)															12								12
Phaistos Disc (46: 101D0–101FF)
Lycian (29: 10280–1029F)
Carian (49: 102A0-102DF)
Coptic Epact Numbers (28: 102E0–102FF)
Old Italic (36: 10300–1032F)				35		35							35		35							35	35
Gothic (27: 10330–1034F)
Old Permic (43: 10350–1037F)
Ugaritic (31: 10380–1039F)
Old Persian (50: 103A0–103DF)
Deseret (80: 10400–1044F)
Shavian (48: 10450–1047F)
Osmanya (40: 10480–104AF)
Elbasan (40: 10500–1052F)
Caucasian Albanian (53: 10530–1056F)
Linear A (341: 10600–1077F)
Cypriot Syllabary (55: 10800–1083F)
Imperial Aramaic (31: 10840–1085F)
Palmyrene (32: 10860–1087F)
Nabataean (40: 10880–108AF)
Hatran (26: 108E0–108FF)
Phoenician (29: 10900–1091F)						27																27
Lydian (27: 10920–1093F)
Meroitic Hieroglyphs (32: 10980–1099F)
Meroitic Cursive (90: 109A0–109FF)
Kharosthi (65: 10A00–10A5F)
Old South Arabian (32: 10A60–10A7F)
Old North Arabian (32: 10A80–10A9F)
Manichaean (51: 10AC0–10AFF)
Avestan (61: 10B00–10B3F)
Inscriptional Parthian (30: 10B40–10B5F)
Inscriptional Pahlavi (27: 10B60–10B7F)
Psalter Pahlavi (29: 10B80–10BAF)
Old Turkic (73: 10C00–10C4F)
Old Hungarian (108: 10C80–10CFF)
Rumi Numeral Symbols (31: 10E60–10E7F)
Brahmi (109: 11000–1107F)
Kaithi (66: 11080–110CF)
Sora Sompeng (35: 110D0–110FF)
Chakma (67: 11100–1114F)
Mahajani (39: 11150–1117F)
Sharada (94: 11180–111DF)
Sinhala Archaic Numbers (20: 111E0–111FF)
Khojki (61: 11200–1124F)
Multani (38: 11280–112AF)
Khudawadi (69: 112B0–112FF)
Grantha (85: 11300–1137F)
Tirhuta (82: 11480–114DF)
Siddham (92: 11580–115FF)
Modi (79: 11600–1165F)
Takri (66: 11680–116CF)
Ahom (57: 11700–1173F)
Warang Citi (84: 118A0–118FF)
Pau Cin Hau (57: 11AC0–11AFF)
Cuneiform (Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform) (922: 12000–123FF)
Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation (116: 12400–1247F)
Early Dynastic Cuneiform (196: 12480–1254F)
Egyptian Hieroglyphs (1,071: 13000–1342F)
Anatolian Hieroglyphs (583: 14400–1467F)
Bamum Supplement (569: 16800–16A3F)
Mro (43: 16A40–16A6F)
Bassa Vah (36: 16AD0–16AFF)
Pahawh Hmong (127: 16B00–16B8F)
Miao (133: 16F00–16F9F)
Kana Supplement (2: 1B000–1B0FF)
Duployan (143: 1BC00–1BC9F)
Shorthand Format Controls (4: 1BCA0–1BCAF)
Byzantine Musical Symbols (246: 1D000–1D0FF)						33
Musical Symbols (231: 1D100–1D1FF)						44
Ancient Greek Musical Notation (70: 1D200–1D24F)
Tai Xuan Jing Symbols (87: 1D300–1D35F)
Counting Rod Numerals (18: 1D360–1D371)
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (996: 1D400–1D7FF)				13			2				2			2
Sutton SignWriting (672: 1D800–1DAAF)
Mende Kikakui (213: 1E800–1E8DF)
Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols (143: 1EE00–1EEFF)
Mahjong Tiles (44: 1F000–1F02F)
Domino Tiles (100: 1F030–1F09F)
Playing Cards (82: 1F0A0–1F0FF)
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (173: 1F100–1F1FF)
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement (57: 1F200–1F2FF)
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (766: 1F300–1F5FF)
Emoticons (80: 1F600–1F64F)
Ornamental Dingbats (48: 1F650–1F67F)
Transport and Map Symbols (98: 1F680–1F6FF)
Alchemical Symbols (116: 1F700–1F77F)
Geometric Shapes Extended (85: 1F780–1F7FF)
Supplemental Arrows-C (148: 1F800–1F8FF)
Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs (15: 1F900–1F9FF)
Range Font
SMP (Plane 1)

List of SIP Unicode fonts

List of Unicode fonts supporting SIP characters

Font	Char(s)	Glyphs	Kernpairs (Standard)	Range(Point): Hinting/ Smoothing Behavior	Version & Date	Filename, Size	Font Family	Font Weight, style	Font type	Serif style	License	Creator / Author (Copyright)	Notes
Code2002	20,419	30,469	0		v0.917 sfnt rev 0.916992 2005-04-04	CODE2002.TTF (4.09 MB)	Code2002	Medium (Normal), Book, Regular		Normal Sans	Freeware	James Kass

20000–2FFFF

Unicode blocks listed are valid for Unicode version 8.0.

SIP (Plane 2)
Font   Range																														BLOCK NAME (Max Glyph Count : Hex Range)	Arial	Arial Uni MS	Bitstream Cyberbit	Cardo	Caslon Roman	Code2001	Code2002	Charis SIL	Chrysanthi Uni	ClearlyU	DejaVuSans	Doulos SIL	Everson Mono	GNU FreeFont	Gentium	GNU Unifont	Junicode	Linux Libertine	Lucida Grande	Lucida Sans Uni	MS JhengHei	MS Sans Serif	New Gulim	Sun-ExtB	Tahoma (typeface)	Times New Roman	TITUS Cyberbit Basic	WenQuanYi Zen Hei	Y.OzFontN -->
Total Characters in SIP (53,386: 20000–2FFFF)						12																						543	387
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B (42,711: 20000-2A6D6)						12																						1	342
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C (4,149: 2A700-2B734)
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D (222: 2B740-2B81D)
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E (5,762: 2B820-2CEAF)
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement (542: 2F800-2FA1F)																													44
SIP (Plane 2)

List of SSP Unicode fonts

E0000–EFFFF

Unicode blocks listed are valid for Unicode version 8.0.

SSP (Plane 14; 0Ehexadecimal)
Font   Range																													BLOCK NAME (Max Glyph Count : Hex Range)	Arial	Arial Uni MS	Bitstream Cyberbit	Cardo	Caslon Roman	Code2001	Charis SIL	Chrysanthi Uni	ClearlyU	DejaVuSans	Doulos SIL	Everson Mono	GNU FreeFont	Gentium	GNU Unifont	Junicode	Linux Libertine	Lucida Grande	Lucida Sans Uni	MS JhengHei	MS Sans Serif	New Gulim	Sun-ExtA	Tahoma (typeface)	Times New Roman	TITUS Cyberbit Basic	WenQuanYi Zen Hei	Y.OzFontN -->
Total Characters in SSP (337: E0000–EFFFF)						12																						16
Tags (97: E0000–E007F)						12
Variation Selectors Supplement (240: E0100–E01EF)
SSP (Plane 14; 0Ehexadecimal)

External links

• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, the working group in charge of ISO 10646
• Fonts and Keyboards at Unicode.org
• Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems — A huge index of high quality free fonts.
• Alan Wood's Unicode Resources – Unicode fonts for Windows computers — Index of free and commercial Unicode fonts.
• Character sets – Ken Fowles, Microsoft, 1997. — Enable Unicode for applications.
• Microsoft Typography – Fonts and Products — Reference for determining which fonts are supplied with Microsoft products.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fonts and keyboards . Unicode Consortium . 28 June 2017 . 13 October 2019 . 18 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191018224143/http://unicode.org/faq/font_keyboard.html . live .
2. Ken Lunde, CJKV Information Processing, O'Reilly Inc, 1999. Page 128, "CJKV character form differences"
3. Web site: Arial Unicode MS . . 2010-01-15 . 2010-01-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100108131000/http:/c/www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/family.aspx?FID=24 . live .
4. Web site: Wen Quan Yi – Open Source Chinese: BitmapSong en . Wenq.org . 2012-05-14 . 2012-08-21.
5. Web site: Wen Quan Yi – Open Source Chinese: MicroHei(en) . Wenq.org . 2012-08-21.
6. Web site: Wen Quan Yi – Open Source Chinese: ZenHei(en) . Wenq.org . 2012-08-21.

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