Windows Cyrillic Fonts and Keyboard Drivers

Special note for Windows users:

If you use Windows 95 and above, you do NOT need to obtain fonts or keyboard drivers for Cyrillic. Microsoft includes Cyrillic support in the system software. For the newest versions of Windows, do the following:
Go to "Control Panel" and double-click on  "Regional Options". Choose the tab entitled "General". Towards the bottom are the language settings. Check "Cyrillic" and choose "ok."

For older versions of Windows, the process is slightly different. To install Cyrillic do the following:
Open Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove Programs, click the Windows Setup tab, and select the Multilanguage Support check box. (Note: this will also install support for Greek, Central European, etc.) Click "ok" and exit.

Also, don't forget to install a keyboard. In the same Control Panel, double-click on the Keyboard icon. Go to languages and choose the one you need. You will have to restart the computer for the changes to take effect. The keyboard layout provided is based upon the typewriter layout used in each language.

Setting up fonts and keyboard drivers for Windows

• Font Section . Links directly to the files. The font section organized primarily by codepage.
• Keyboard Section . Keyboards are listed primarily by codepage.
• Most of these links are to compressed files such as .zip. You will need a utility such as Unzip to decompress them.
• Links to sites for Cyrillicizing Windows.
• Links to font archives .
• Links to sites offering commercial fonts.

Fonts

• Unicode
• True Type
• 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.
• Smart package of Microsoft's core fonts.
• Andale Mono CE, Cyr, Baltic, Greek, Tur
• Arial Black CE, Cyr, Greek, Baltic, Tur
• Arial Narrow CE, Cyr, Greek, Baltic, Tur
• Arial CE, Cyr, Greek, Baltic, Tur, Arabic, Hebrew
• Bitstream Cyberbase.
• Bitstream Cyberbit CE, Cyr, Baltic, Greek, Tur, Hebrew, Arabic
• Bitstream CyberCJK.
• Bookman Old Style CE, Cyr, Greek, Baltic, Tur
• Code 2000 CE, Cyr, Baltic, Gree, Tur
• Comic Sans MS - CE,Cyr,Baltic,Greek,Tur
• Courier New CE, Cyr, Greek, Baltic, Tur, Arabic, Hebrew
• Garamond CE, Cyr, Greek, Baltic, Tur
• Georgia CE, Cyr, Baltic, Greek, Tur
• Haettenschweiler CE, Cyr, Greek, Baltic, Tur
• Impact CE, Cyr, Greek, Baltic, Tur
• Lucida Sans Serif CE, Cyr, Baltic, Greek, Tur, Hebrew
• Times New Roman CE, Cyr, Greek, Baltic, Tur, Arabic, Hebrew
• Verdana CE, Cyr, Greek, Baltic, Tur
• XSerif Unicode CE, Cyr, Baltic
• KOI-7
• TrueType
• KOI-8
• TrueType
• ERArchitectKOI8
• ERBukinistKOI8
• ERKurierKOI8
• ERUniversKOI8
• The ER series of fonts can be used for typing Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
• cp866
• TrueType
• ERArchitect866
• ERBukinist866
• ERKurier866
• ERUnivers866
• The ER series of fonts can be used for typing Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
• cp1251
• TrueType
• ERArchitect1251
• ERBukinist1251
• ERKurier1251
• ERUnivers1251
• The ER series of fonts can be used for typing Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
• XSerif Cyr . Supports Russian, Byelorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Macedonian.
• XSerif Old Russian.
• PT Courier Cyrillic. Free download from ParaType. Both TrueType and PostScript.
• PT Courier Cyrillic Old Russian. Free download from ParaType. Both TrueType and PostScript.
• Apple Standard
• TrueType
• ERArchitectMac
• ERBukinistMac
• ERKurierMac
• ERUniversMac
• The ER series of fonts can be used for typing Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.
• Old Church Slavonic fonts
• Slavist Fonts The Windows Version of Jake Jacobson's Cyril and Methodius for the Mac.
• Kirillica Wincyr. Encoding is CP 1251.
• Other
• TrueType
  • Macedonian Tms.
  • Pravda. Serbian.
  • Odessa script. Serbian.
  • Cyril. Serbian.
  • Bookvar. Bulgarian.
  • Bulgarian Courier.
  • Bulgarian Garamond
  • Bulgarian Italic
  • Bulgarian Kursiv
  • Bulgarian Palatia
  • Timok. Bulgarian.
  • PT Courier WWW Pack. Free download from ParaType. Both TrueType and PostScript. (DOS, KOI8, CP1251, ISO8859-5 & other Win and Mac encodings)
• Bitmap
  • Vremya Accented.

Keyboard drivers

• Unicode
• Homophonic layout "Student" for Win XP/2003/Vista Homophonic Russian Keyboard by Paul Gorodyansky. See instructions and layout
• Russian for Gringos. Homophonic Russian Keyboard for Windows Vista by Don Livingston. See instructions and layout.
  
• KU Homophonic Russian Keyboard for Windows XP, Vista and 7. Contributed by Jonathan Perkins. Provides accented vowels. Instructions and layout for Windows XP; Instructions for Windows Vista; Instructions for Windows 7.
  
• KU Homophonic Russian Keyboard for Win 2000/XP. Contributed by Jonathan Perkins. Provides accented vowels.See the instructions and layout.
  
• KU Homophonic Ukrainian Keyboard for Windows XP, Vista and 7. Contributed by Jonathan Perkins. Provides accented vowels. Instructions and layout for Windows XP; Instructions for Windows Vista; Instructions for Windows 7.
  
• KU Homophonic Ukrainian Keyboard for Win 2000/XP.Contributed by Jonathan Perkins. Provides accented vowels.See the instructions and layout.
  
• Russian for Gringos. Homophonic Russian Keyboard for Windows XP by Don Livingston. See instructions and layout.
  
• CP 1251
• Homophonic keyboard for Windows NT . By the SovInform Bureau
• Homophonic Keyboard for Win 95/Win 98 . Contributed by Richard Robin.
• AATSEEL Keyboard layout for Windows 95 . Put together by David Powelstock. Be sure to grab also the readme file .
• Phonetic Layout for Windows 95 . By Alex Lane.
• Ukrainian Keyboard Driver for Windows 95 Supports KOI8 and cp1251 encodings. Provides a choice of keyboard layouts.
• WinKey Gavin Helf's package which allows one to switch between a homophonic or QWERTY layout and the Russian national one for cp 866, cp1251, and KOI8. Also contains keyboards for Ukrainain, Belorussian, Latvian, Estonian, and Esperanto.
• Windows Keyboards
• Cyrwin A shareware package that contains a keyboard driver.
• Keyboards More keyboards for Windows.
• KOI8
• Phonetic layout for KOI8 . By Alex Lane.
• Ukrainian Keyboard Driver for Windows 95 Supports KOI8 and cp1251 encodings. Provides a choice of keyboard layouts.
• WinKey Gavin Helf's package which allows one to switch between a homophonic or QWERTY layout and the Russian national one for cp 866, cp1251, and KOI8. Also contains keyboards for Ukrainain, Belorussian, Latvian, Estonian, and Esperanto.
• CP866
• WinKey Gavin Helf's package which allows one to switch between a homophonic or QWERTY layout and the Russian national one for cp 866, cp1251, and KOI8. Also contains keyboards for Ukrainain, Belorussian, Latvian, Estonian, and Esperanto.
• Other
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Sites for Cyrillicizing Windows

• Cyrillic for Windows and the Internet
• Russify Everything.
• Cyrillicize Windows

Font Archives

• BRAMA . Provides Cyrillic fonts and keyboards plus detailed information on how to use them.
• kiarchive.relcom.ru
• ParaType Shop.
• Slovo

Commercial Sites

• Smart Link Corporation. Offers numerous cp 1251 fonts for Windows.
• Lexicon Bridge Publishers
• ParaType Cyrillic Fonts.