Hand-writing fonts

For this site I’m mostly using SIL’s Gentium Plus font, which has excellent Unicode support for Latin and Cyrillic script.

• Norwegian: Ææ Øø Åå
• Slovene and B/C/M/S with Latin script: Čč Ćć Đđ Šš Žž
• Diacritics for Arabic transliteration: Āā Īī Ūū Ḍḍ Ḥḥ Ḳḳ Ṣṣ Ṭṭ Ẓẓ
• Esperanto: Ĉĉ Ĝĝ Ĥĥ Ĵĵ Ŝŝ Ŭŭ
• Other Cyrillic: Russian Аа Бб Вв Гг Дд Ее Ёё Жж Зз Ии Йй Кк Лл Мм Нн Оо Пп Рр Сс Тт Уу Фф Хх Цц Шш Щщ Ъъ Ыы Ьь Ээ Юю Яя; Belarusian Іі Ўў; Ukrainian Єє Її, Serbian Ђђ Јј Љљ Њњ Ћћ Џџ
• Greek: Αα Ββ Γγ Δδ Εε Ζζ Ηη Θθ Ιι Κκ Λλ Μμ Νν Ξξ Οο Ππ Ρρ Σσς Ττ Υυ Φφ Χχ Ψψ Ωω

Gentium also looks nice without adjustments to the line height, which is a plus for inline math with MathJax.

I’d like to vary this a bit with a friendly hand-writing font. I love Kimberly Geschwein’s very readable Architects Daughter, but it’s missing a few key bits that I will want to have, like letters with dots below for Arabic transliteration, and it has no Cyrillic support at all.

• Norwegian: Ææ Øø Åå - the å is a bit hard to read.
• Slovene and B/C/M/S: Čč Ćć Đđ Šš Žž – it’s missing đ, but it can be written dj, so it’s not a huge issue, and not an issue for Slovene at all
• Diacritics for Arabic transliteration: only long vowels with macrons above, Āā Īī Ūū, and even so it’s missing missing the capital Ī; no dots below
• Esperanto: Ĉĉ Ĝĝ Ĥĥ Ĵĵ Ŝŝ Ŭŭ – very nice
• No Cyrillic or Greek

In fact, I’ve only found two fonts that do cover the character range I’m interested in, minus Greek. Kevin Burke’s Pangolin is also very readable, but it’s a bit rough and heavy:

• Norwegian: Ææ Øø Åå
• Slovene and B/C/M/S: Čč Ćć Đđ Šš Žž; Ђђ Јј Љљ Њњ Ћћ Џџ
• Diacritics for Arabic transliteration: Āā Īī Ūū Ḍḍ Ḥḥ Ḳḳ Ṣṣ Ṭṭ Ẓẓ – the only one missing is Ḳḳ, and I use Qq for qāf anyway.
• Esperanto: Ĉĉ Ĝĝ Ĥĥ Ĵĵ Ŝŝ Ŭŭ
• Other Cyrillic: Russian Аа Бб Вв Гг Дд Ее Ёё Жж Зз Ии Йй Кк Лл Мм Нн Оо Пп Рр Сс Тт Уу Фф Хх Цц Шш Щщ Ъъ Ыы Ьь Ээ Юю Яя; Belarusian Іі Ўў; Ukrainian Єє Її; Serbian Ђђ Јј Љљ Њњ Ћћ Џџ

Impallari Type’s Caveat has similarly good coverage and the lighter touch I’d like, but I’m not sure it’s readable enough:

• Norwegian: Ææ Øø Åå
• Slovene and B/C/M/S: Čč Ćć Đđ Šš Žž; Cyrillic Ђђ Јј Љљ Њњ Ћћ Џџ
• Diacritics for Arabic transliteration: Āā Īī Ūū Ḍḍ Ḥḥ Ḳḳ Ṣṣ Ṭṭ Ẓẓ
• Esperanto: Ĉĉ Ĝĝ Ĥĥ Ĵĵ Ŝŝ Ŭŭ
• Other Cyrillic: Russian Аа Бб Вв Гг Дд Ее Ёё Жж Зз Ии Йй Кк Лл Мм Нн Оо Пп Рр Сс Тт Уу Фф Хх Цц Шш Щщ Ъъ Ыы Ьь Ээ Юю Яя; Belarusian Іі Ўў; Ukrainian Єє Її; Serbian Ђђ Јј Љљ Њњ Ћћ Џџ

And then there’s the missing Greek, which I’m sure I’ll want sooner or later.