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FONTS BY LANGUAGE/SCRIPT SUPPORT
Ascender's fonts feature extensive character set support. The fonts are organized in the following groups:
Ascender can adapt the fonts to the specific needs of a software or hardware developer. We can modify the fonts to create the specific character set or tune the fonts for certain display or printing environments.
Note: All of these fonts are available for licensing to enterprises and software & hardware developers, but not all Non-Roman fonts are currently available for purchase/download by end-users.
If there are fonts not listed here that you are interested in, or for more information on licensing these fonts, please contact us.
Latin 1
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The Latin-1 character set contains the common set of letters, numbers, accents, punctuation and symbols of the major western European languages.
For a Latin-1 character chart, click here. 
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WGL - pan European
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Microsoft has defined a Pan-European character set known as WGL (Windows Glyph List). It contains characters that are required for Western, Central and Eastern European languages, and includes support for Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish. The WGL4 standard incorporates codepages 1250 (Eastern Europe), 1251 (Cyrillic), 1252 (Latin 1), 1253 (Greek) and 1254 (Turkish). WGL is comprised of approximately 653 characters and utilizes Unicode encoding.
For a complete WGL character chart, click here.
For more information on WGL, click here.
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Vietnamese
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The Unicode implementation of Vietnamese encodes glyphs into the Latin Extended ranges. Ascender offers the following fonts with Vietnamese support:
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Arial
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Tahoma
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Arial Unicode
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Times New Roman
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Ascender Uni
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Verdana
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Courier New
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East Asian (CJK)
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East Asian includes the CJK languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean). For more information on any of these fonts click here.
Note: the East Asian fonts are currently not available for purchase/download by end-users. They are only available for license to software or hardware developers.
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Arial Unicode (CJK)
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DFPHSMincho-W5 (Japanese)
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Ascender Uni (CJK)
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DFPHSMincho-W7 (Japanese)
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Batang (Korean)
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DFKGothicBd (Korean)
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Gulim (Korean)
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DFKGothicMd (Korean)
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DFPHei-W5 (Simplified Chinese)
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DFKMinchoBd (Korean)
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DFPHei-W7 (Simplified Chinese)
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DFKMinchoMd (Korean)
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DFPSong-W5 (Simplified Chinese)
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Hei (Simplified & Traditional Chinese)
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DFPSong-W7 (Simplified Chinese)
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Heisei (Japanese)
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DFPHeiHK-W5 (Traditional Chinese)
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MS Gothic (Japanese)
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DFPHeiHK-W7 (Traditional Chinese)
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MS Mincho (Japanese)
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DFPMingHK-W5 (Traditional Chinese)
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SimHei (Simplified Chinese)
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DFPMingHK-W7 (Traditional Chinese)
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SimSun (Simplified Chinese)
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DFPHSGothic-W5 (Japanese)
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MingLiU (Traditional Chinese)
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DFPHSGothic-W7 (Japanese)
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Middle Eastern Scripts
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Arabic and Hebrew are two of the most popular complex scripts of the Middle East. These fonts are designed for a righ-to-left composition environment. For more information on any of the Middle Eastern script fonts click here.
Note: these fonts are not available for purchase/download by end-users. They are only available for license to software and hardware developers.
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Arial (Arabic, Hebrew)
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Microsoft Sans Serif (Arabic, Hebrew)
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Ascender Uni (Arabic, Hebrew)
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MV Boli (Thaana)
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Courier New (Arabic, Hebrew)
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Tahoma (Arabic, Hebrew)
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Lucida (Hebrew)
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Times New Roman (Arabic, Hebrew)
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South Asian Scripts
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The South Asian Scripts include the many Indic scripts. For more information on any of the South Asian script fonts click here.
Note: these fonts are not available for purchase/download by end-users. They are only available for license to software and hardware developers.
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Arial Unicode (Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam)
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Mangal (Devanagari)
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Ascender Uni (Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam)
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Raavi (Gurmukhi)
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Gautami (Telugu)
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Shruti (Gujarati)
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Kartika (Malayalam)
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Tunga (Kannada)
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Latha (Tamil)
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Vrinda (Bengali)
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Southeast Asian Scripts
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Thai, Lao, Myanmar, Khmer, Tai Le and Philippine scripts are among the scripts of Southeast Asia. For more information on any of the Southeast Asian script fonts click here.
Note: these fonts are not available for purchase/download by end-users. They are only available for license to software and hardware developers.
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Arial Unicode (Thai, Lao)
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Iris (Thai)
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Ascender Uni (Thai, Lao)
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Jasmine (Thai)
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Angsana (Thai)
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Kodchiang (Thai)
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Browallia (Thai)
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Lily (Thai)
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Cordia (Thai)
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Lucida (Thai)
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Dillenia (Thai)
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Tahoma (Thai)
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Eucrosia (Thai)
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Microsoft Sans Serif (Thai)
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Freesia (Thai)
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Pictures/Symbol
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Picture fonts contain symbols, icons and illustrations. The characters are available by typing in normal keyboard positions, and can be scaled to any size. Picture and symbol fonts can add variety to any document, as a picture is truly worth one thousand words.
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Almanac
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Sports 2
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Bon Apetit
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Sports 3
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Directions
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Symbol
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Holidays
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Transport
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Keystrokes
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Vacation
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Parties
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Webdings
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Signs
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Wingdings
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Sorts
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Wingdings 2
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Sorts 2
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Wingdings 3
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If there are Microsoft or other fonts not listed here that you are interested in, or for more information on licensing these fonts, please contact us.
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