Macintosh Cyrillic Fonts and Keyboard Drivers

Special Note for Mac OS 9 & X Users:

Mac OS 9 and 10 both include basic fonts and keyboards. For most users this is all that will be necessary. To engage the fonts and keyboards in system 10.* go to System Preferences and choose International. Choose Input Menu and you will see a long list of input options. In some cases you are provided the option of the typewriter layout of the language and a layout more user friendly to North Americans. For example, for Russian you may choose Russian which uses the typewriter layout found in Russia or Russian-Phonetic which uses the homophonic layout preferred by many Americans. If you want to "Russify" your system, some free software is available: Ultimate Cyrillic Script from the Macintosh Club of St. Petersburg.

Setting up fonts and keyboard drivers for Macintosh

• Font Section. The font section organized primarily by codepage. Five separate codepages are listed plus a catch-all, sixth category. Within each listing, fonts are divided into True Type and Postscript.  A few bitmapped fonts are listed either because they are quite common or offer unusual features.
• Keyboard Section. Keyboards are listed by codepage.
• Most of the links on this page are to compressed files. You will need a decompression utility such as Stuffit Expander to decompress them. Some files are disk images which require a utility such as DiskCopy or ShrinkWrap in order to process them.
• Links to sites for Cyrillicizing Macintosh
• Links to font archives.
• Links to sites offering commercial fonts.

Fonts

• Unicode
  • TrueType
    • Roman CyrillicStd. Unicode 5.1 font with almost 3500 characters. See Kodeks site for details.
    • CampusRomanStd. Unicode 5.1 font with almost 3500 characters. See Kodeks site for details.
• Apple Standard Cyrillic
  • TrueType
    • ERArchitectMacintosh (77k). This is "a fab scribbly font like architects use."
    • ERBukinishtMacintosh (270k). This is a serif font (true itl/bld).
    • ERKurierMacintosh (299k). This is fixed-width Courier-like font (true itl/bld).
    • ERUniversMacintosh (230k). This is a sans-serif font (true itl/bld).
      • The ER series of fonts can be used for typing Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
  • PostScript
• KOI-7
  • TrueType
  • PostScript
  • Bitmapped
• KOI-8
  • TrueType
    • ERArchitectKOI8 (70k). This is "a fab scribbly font like architects use."
    • ERBukinistKOI8 (237k). This is a serif font (true itl/bld).
    • ERKurierKOI8 (262k). This is fixed-width Courier-like font (true itl/bld).
    • ERUniversKOI8 (208k). This is a sans-serif font (true itl/bld).
      • The ER series of fonts can be used for typing Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
    • KOI8 (version 2) (186k)
  • PostScript
  • Bitmapped
    • KOI8 (42k) This is a package containing two Ukrainian fonts.
• cp1251
  • TrueType
    • ERArchitect1251 (77k). This is "a fab scribbly font like architects use."
    • ERBukinist1251 (263k). This is a serif font (true itl/bld).
    • ERKurier1251 (300k). This is fixed-width Courier-like font (true itl/bld).
    • ERUnivers1251 (224k). This is a sans-serif font (true itl/bld).
      • The ER series of fonts can be used for typing Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
  • PostScript
• cp866
  • TrueType
    • ERArchitect866 (71k). This is "a fab scribbly font like architects use."
    • ERBukinist866 (243k). This is a serif font (true itl/bld).
    • ERKurier866 (256k). This is fixed-width Courier-like font (true itl/bld).
    • ERUnivers866 (210k). This is a sans-serif font (true itl/bld).
      • The ER series of fonts can be used for typing Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
  • PostScript
  • Bitmapped
    • macalternativa. A bitmapped font for those who need to share files with DOS users.
• Old Church Slavonic Fonts
  • Venice.
• Other Standards
  • TrueType
    • Cyril and Methodius (671k).
    • Cyrillic Bold (27k).
    • Cyrillic Family (329k). Contains both True Type and Postscript formats.
    • Russian (81k). Comes True Type, Postscript 1 and bitmapped formats.
    • Shaddock Book Hollow (77k). A True Type font with the hollowed look to it.
    • PT Courier Cyrillic. Free download from ParaType. Both TrueType and PostScript.
    • PT Courier Cyrillic Old Russian. Free download from ParaType. Both TrueType and PostScript.
    • PT Courier WWW Pack. Free download from ParaType. Both TrueType and PostScript. (DOS, KOI8, CP1251, ISO8859-5 & other Win and Mac encodings)
  • PostScript
    • ItaliaCyrillic (105k). Comes in True Type, Postscript and bitmapped formats.
    • Shaddock Book Hollow (95k).
    • Strogij (45k). Uses the CYRILSCII standard. Can be used for English, Ukrainian, Russian, Belorussian, Bulgarian.
  • Bitmapped
    • Fowler A font created by George Fowler. Useful for reading the corpora of Russian literature found at the Central and East European Archive.
    • UkrASCII (42k). A package containing two bitmapped Ukrainian fonts.
    • Kursk (9k). Another bitmapped font.
    • Berezniki. (9 k)
    • Combined Russian Fonts. (14 k)
    • International Cyrillic. (9 k)
    • Leningrad (5k)
    • Petersburg (14k)
    • Moscow (9k)
    • Stargorod (14k) An older-looking, artsy font.

Keyboard drivers

• Unicode
  • ZM Translit Keyboards. An updated version of the Kyiv, Lviv and Poltava homophonic Ukrainian keyboard layouts.
• Apple Standard
  • Mac OS X Transliterated Keyboard. See also the directions for installation.
  • Russkaia-Apple Standard. A shareware keyboard by Matvey Palchuk. Layout is AATSEEL/QWERTY. (Link to information and instructions.)
    • Mac OS X 10.2 and up
    • Mac OS X up to 10.1.5
    • Up to Mac OS 9
  • Mac OS X Transliterated US Keyboard for Russian. Provided by the Multimedia Learning Center, Northwestern University. (Link to information and instructions.)
  • Cyrillic QWERTY X. Has the necessary letters for all the modern Slavic languages using Cyrillic, including Serbian and Macedonian.
  • GF Cyrillic Keyboards. Created by George Fowler for use with the Apple Standard Cyrillic Fonts. Two layouts are available: AATSEEL/QWERTY and Russian National.
  • P II (106k). A homophonic/QWERTY keyboard layout.
  • Kyiv (37k).
  • Lviv (36k).
  • Poltava
    • Kyiv, Lviv and Poltava are homophonic/QWERTY type layouts, although there is some variation. See the page Ukrainianization of Macintosh for further details.
• KOI-8
  • Russkaia-KOI8 A shareware keyboard by Matvey Palchuk. Layout is AATSEEL/QWERTY. (Link to information and instructions.)
    • Mac OS X 10.2 and up
    • Mac OS X up to 10.1.5
    • Up to Mac OS 9
  • KyivKOI8 (37k).
  • LvivKOI8 (37k).
  • PoltavaKOI8 (37k).
    • Kyiv, Lviv and Poltava are homophonic/QWERTY type layouts, although there is some variation. See the page Ukrainianization of Macintosh for further details.
• cp1251
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• cp866
  • MacAlternativa
• CYRILSCII
  • Cyrillic. Part of the Strogij font package.

Sites for Cyrillicizing Macintosh

• Russification of the Macintosh
• Ukrainianization of the Macintosh
• Cyrillization of Macintosh

Font Archives

• BRAMA. Provides Cyrillic fonts and keyboards plus detailed information on how to use them.
• FREELANG Font Center.
• Fonts in Cyberspace.

Commercial Sites

These links are provided purely for informational purposes. No endorsement or guarantee is made for any product.

• Smart Link Corporation. Offers numerous Cyrillic fonts for the Mac.
• Deksoft. Offers Cyrillic fonts for the Mac.
• Tilde.

This page maintained by:
Andrew M. Drozd
University of Alabama
e-mail: adrozd@bama.ua.edu