The MUFI font page
This page contains a list of fonts that comply with
(a) The Unicode Standard
(b) the allocation of characters in the Private Use Area of The Unicode Standard,
as specified in the MUFI character recommendation
Please note that the downloading of fonts on this site is entirely at each user's own risk.
To the best of our knowledge, no fonts on this page violate any copyright. Anyone who wishes to make a copyright claim should contact the type designer at the appropriate web sites or any of the MUFI contacts.
Contents
A. Fonts with extensive coverage of MUFI characters
 Alphabetum - MUFI v. 1.0 compliant, and a good, but not complete, coverage of MUFI v. 2.0 and v. 3.0.
Andron Scriptor Web - MUFI v. 3.0 compliant.
Cardo - MUFI v. 3.0 compliant.
Junicode - MUFI v. 4.0 compliant. Full coverage in the regular and italic styles.
LeedsUni - MUFI v. 2.0 compliant.
Palemonas MUFI - MUFI v. 3.0 compliant. All four styles are included.
Titus Cyberbit - MUFI v. 1.0 compliant.
B. Fonts with limited coverage of MUFI characters
Lapidaria Menotec - contains a selection of Old Norse characters.
DejaVu Menotec - contains a selection of Old Norse characters, and several other code charts.
Alphabetum
Designer: Juan-José Marcos, Plasencia, Cáceres, Spain.
Model: Renaissance fonts.
Styles: Regular; Italic to be developed at a later stage.
Inventory: Version 11.0 (published 5 April 2014) has over 6650 characters from a large number of Unicode code charts, with an extensive coverage of Ancient and Medieval scripts.
MUFI characters: A large number of the MUFI characters are included, and all of them are located on the same code points as in the MUFI characters recommendation (so that, in this sense, Alphabetum is fully MUFI compliant)
Availability: Various licenses from USD 19 / EUR 15 / GBP 12 - see the Alphabetum site.
Font format: TrueType for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X.
Embedding: The font can be embedded in PDF documents
Manual: Manual v. 11.0 (PDF file, 5 April 2014).
Downloading site: Alphabetum site
Andron Scriptor Web
Designer: Andreas Stötzner, Leipzig.
Model: Renaissance fonts.
Styles: Regular.
Inventory: Version 3.0 has more than 1500 characters.
MUFI characters: All characters in the MUFI recommendation v. 3.0 are included in Andron Scriptor Web.
Availability: Andron Scriptor is available free of charge. Please read the license below.
Font format: TrueType for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X.
Embedding: The font can be embedded in PDF documents.
Downloading v. 2.0: Andron Scriptor Web v. 2 (11 December 2006)
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Downloading v. 3.0: Andron Scriptor Web v. 3 (31 March 2009)
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License: This font is a special edition of Andreas Stötzner’s Andron font project, financed by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) and the University of Bergen. It has been issued to support scholarly editing purposes for medieval philological studies and is provided free of charge. The creator and the provider of this font (Andreas Stötzner and the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative) have to be credited in colophones of works which utilize the font. Any alterations to this font, its contents, disposition, glyph shapes and naming are against copyright law and therefore strictly forbidden. If any enhancements or improvements of the font seem to be desirable, users should forward this to MUFI in order to get their suggestions considered in future updates of the font.
More characters? A major extension of the Andron Scriptor Web font will be offered on the Andron Font site. This version contains approximately 9000 characters from a wide range of Unicode charts. The most frequently used characters (basically the Latin ones) will also have separate italic, semibold and semibold italic shapes as well as regular small capitals.
Cardo
Designer: David J. Perry, Rye, New York, US.
Model: Renaissance fonts.
Styles: Regular, as well as a fine selection of italic and bold characters, also true small capitals.
Inventory: Cardo includes a large number of characters from many Unicode code charts, including Medieval MUFI characters, characters for Roman epigraphy and Old Italic characters. It will also contain all characters proposed by the Thesaurus Linguae Graeca (TLG) for Unicode.
MUFI characters: All characters in the MUFI recommendation v. 3.0 have been included in Cardo (1.04).
Availability: Freeware.
Font format: TrueType for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X.
Embedding: The font can be embedded in PDF documents.
Downloading site: Fonts for scholars
Junicode
Designer: Peter S. Baker, Charlottesville, Virginia, US.
Model: The roman is based on a typefont used by the Clarendon Press in the early years of the 17th century; italic and bold styles designed to match.
Inventory: 3007 characters from a large number of Unicode code charts.
Styles: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic (the latter two styles are not complete).
MUFI characters: All characters from the MUFI recommendation v. 4.0 are included in the regular and italic styles.
Availability: Freeware - including Source code.
Font format: TrueType for Windows/Linux and TrueType for Mac OS X.
Embedding: The font can be embedded in PDF documents.
Downloading site: Junicode site
LeedsUni
Designer: Alec McAllister, Leeds, UK.
Model: LeedsUni is intended to blend with Times, but has been designed from scratch by the type designer. Note, for instance, that the serifs are square in LeedsUni, but rounded in Times.
Styles: Roman.
Inventory: The present version has 2975 characters from a large number of Unicode code charts.
MUFI characters: All characters in the MUFI recommendation v. 2.0 are included.
Availability: Free to members of the University of Leeds, and for non-profit-making academic use elsewhere. However, there is a charge for their use in commercial work. Non-University of Leeds users are asked to contact Alec McAllister before using the fonts in any publication.
Font format: TrueType for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X.
Embedding: The font can be embedded in PDF documents.
Downloading site: Not accessible for the time being.
Palemonas MUFI
Designer: Vladas Tumasonis & colleagues, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Model: The ordinary Palemonas font.
Styles: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold italic.
Version: v. 2.0 (16 October 2012).
Inventory: The regular font has all characters in the MUFI character recommendation v. 3.0; the italic, bold and bold italic fonts have a large selection of these characters.
Availability: Freeware.
Font format: TrueType for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X.
Embedding: The font can be embedded in PDF documents.
Downloading: Regular | Italic | Bold | Bold italic
License: The Palemonas MUFI font has been issued to support scholarly editing purposes for medieval philological studies and is provided free of charge. Any alterations to this font, its contents, disposition, glyph shapes and naming are against copyright law and therefore strictly forbidden. If any enhancements or improvements of the font seem to be desirable, users should forward this to MUFI in order to get their suggestions considered in future updates of the font.
Titus Cyberbit
Designer: Jost Gippert and colleagues, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Model: Based on the Cyberbit font supplied by Bitstream Inc. The font exists in a basic and an extended version.
Inventory: TITUS Cyberbit Basic, version 4.0 has 9866 characters from a large number of Unicode code charts; the extended version (TITUS Cyberbit Unicode, not available for download), version 4.0, has 36161 Unicode characters. The Private Use Area contains a very large number (ca. 4000) of precomposed characters.
Styles: Roman.
MUFI characters: All characters in the MUFI recommendation v. 1.0 will be included in the next version of Titus.
Availability: Freeware (commercial usage excluded).
Font format: TrueType for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X.
Embedding: The font can be embedded in PDF documents.
Downloading site: Titus Cyberbit Font
Lapidaria Menotec (for Old Norse)
Designer: Andreas Stötzner, Leipzig.
Model: Based on the Lapidaria font family.
Background: Developed for the Menotec project.
Inventory: A selection of Old Norse characters to be used for diplomatic transcriptions and for general display.
Styles: Regular.
Availability: Lapidaria Menotec is available free of charge. Please read the license in the link below.
Font format: TrueType for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X.
Embedding: The font can be embedded in PDF documents.
Downloading: Lapidaria font
License: Lapidaria license
DejaVu Menotec (for Old Norse)
Designer: Andreas Stötzner, Leipzig.
Model: Based on the free DejaVu font. Menotec additions designed by Andreas Stötzner, Leipzig.
Background: Developed for the Menotec project.
Inventory: The same selection of Old Norse characters as in Lapidaria Menotec; to be used for diplomatic transcriptions and for general display.
Styles: Regular.
Availability: Freeware (commercial usage excluded).
Font format: TrueType for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X.
Embedding: The font can be embedded in PDF documents.
Downloading: DejaVu
Hljóðs bið ek allar helgar kindir ...
This is the opening of stanza 1 of the eddic poem Völuspá, probably composed around 1000 AD, and extant in the Icelandic manuscript Codex Regius (GKS 2365 4to) from ca. 1270.
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