Font families
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. (Current version is 15 as of January 2024.)
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 compatible)
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. 15.0 (PDF file, January 2024).
Downloading site: Alphabetum site
Designer: Andreas Stötzner, Germany.
Model: Renaissance fonts.
Styles: Regular.
Inventory: Version 4.2.3 has more than 1500 characters.
MUFI characters: All characters in the MUFI recommendation v. 4.1 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: Andron Scriptor v. 4.2.3 (3 July 2020)
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? The full version of Andron Scriptor, known as Andron Mega Corpus, contains several thousand characters from a wide range of Unicode charts. A large number of these characters will also have separate italic, semibold and semibold italic shapes as well as regular and italic small capitals. Contact the designer, Andreas Stötzner for details and pricing, <as@signographie.de>.
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
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
Designer: Peter Baker, University of Virginia (emeritus), US.
Model: 17th-century fonts.
Styles: Regular, Italic, Bold, BoldItalic.
Inventory: Version 1.002 (published 2018) is largely MUFI-inspired, with 3017 glyphs and 2737 MUFI characters.
MUFI characters: Fully MUFI compatible with version 4 and some later additions.
Availability: Open Font License.
Font format: TrueType for Windows/Linux/Mac OS X and WOFF for web embedding.
Embedding: The font can be embedded in PDF documents
Downloading site: SourceForge
Designer: Peter Baker, University of Virginia (emeritus), US.
Model: 17th-century fonts.
Styles: Regular, Italic, Bold, BoldItalic.
Inventory: Version 2.001 (published August 2023) is largely MUFI-inspired, with 5022 glyphs and 3161 MUFI/Unicode characters.
MUFI characters: Fully MUFI compatible with version 4 and most later additions.
Availability: Open Font License.
Font format: TrueType, TrueType variable font, OpenType for most platforms and WOFF2 for web embedding.
Embedding: The font can be embedded in PDF documents
Downloading site: GitHub
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. NOTE: This font may contain errors in glyph representations such as at 1E04.
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
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: Alec McAllister's home page.
Used by Jysk Ordbog, Danmarks stednavne among others
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.
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