Search
Search

Macintosh Cyrillic Fonts and Keyboard Drivers

Macintosh Cyrillic Fonts and Keyboard Drivers

This article is translated to Serbo-Croatian language by Vera Djuraskovic from Webhostinggeeks.com.*

This page has been translated into Romanian. Alternate Romanian translation.

This page has been translated into Spanish. Alternate Spanish translation.

Hungarian translation courtesy of Szabolcs Csintalan.

Russian translation courtesy of Sandi Wolfe. Another Russian translation at In Depth Guide.

Ukrainian translation.

Swedish translation.

German translation.

Special Note for Mac OS 9 & X Users:

Mac 10 includes 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.

Setting up fonts and keyboard drivers for Macintosh

Fonts

  • Unicode
  • 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.
    • 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
  • Other Standards

Keyboard drivers

Sites for Cyrillicizing Macintosh

Font Archives

Commercial Sites

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

Cyrillic Converters

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

Additional Resources

Twitter