Local Fonts – a site dedicated to fonts and their localization

Stefan Peev

This site Local Fonts is dedicated to fonts and their localization. Its main concern is the versatility of the Cyrillic Script forms. Here you will find different typefaces carefully classified as traditional (international) Cyrillic, Bulgarian Cyrillic, Serbian Cyrillic, Macedonian Cyrillic as well as Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts, Medieval Cyrillic fonts, links to Greek typefaces. Our everyday task is to identify the fonts in their adaptation of the different forms of written languages.

On the site you will find also free fonts and commercial fonts. We do not contrast free and commercial fonts. They both have its place in the designer’s projects. But we never will offer you commercial fonts for free or free fonts as a commercial one. We respect authorship and do our best to show it.

We work in the benefit of every designer and type drawer but our site is not a commercial one. So we hope that you will help us to make Local Fonts a better place for finding appropriate typeface through your feedback, through your suggestions for improvements or by donation.

Stefan Peev

Cristian Kit Paul wrote: "Lack of standards, wrong standards and then slow adoption of good standards—no wonder the Romanian diacritics turned into an endangered species. Magazine headlines, television supers and advertisements cheerfully disseminate incorrect letters. The situation is so bad that even on national banknotes the spelling is bastardized (if you know who designed this, please encourage the person(s) to quit design)".

See his excellent page on Romanian diacritic marks.

Stefan Peev

Special thanks to @Johannes Neumeier for his WP plugin Font Sampler!

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

A question for you then:
http://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/30126/#Comment_30126

Stefan Peev

Hrant H. Papazian said:

A question for you then:
http://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/30126/#Comment_30126

I'm not sure that I'm the right person to participate in this discussion. My personal opinion is that it is not a calligraphy, it's a handwriting. So I do agree with John Hudson that there must be another term – for me it could be stylized handwriting.

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

@Stefan Peev Maybe keep that discussion there?

Stefan Peev

OK, I sent my comment there...

KP Mawhood

Would you welcome suggestions across scripts, or is the scope currently limited to Cyrillic / related forms + Greek? 

Stefan Peev

I'll be thankful for any suggestions. The site is not limited to Cyrillic or Greek.

Johannes Neumeier

Great to see the plugin is useful on your site. You'll be happy to hear selecting language specific locl features is one of the features on the roadmap. That could be handy for previewing differences between different local variations of Cyrillic in OT fonts that support it

In fact, I've browsed your site for info on Cyrillic when you first linked it here and found the articles very informative. Keep up the good work!

Stefan Peev

On the site Local Fonts there is a section "Font Creators, Editors and Additional Tools". The ambitious aim is the section to be a comprehensive list of tools for type designers. I thank you in advance for any suggestions here or as a comment on the site page.

Stefan Peev

Some sections are completly rewritten: Cyrillic Alphabets of Slavic Languages, Cyrillic Alphabets of Non-Slavic Languages: Iranian Languages. The work is going on.