Cyrillic font?

[karohemd]

A friend is looking for Cyrillic fonts for the international editon of a flyer, ideally free to download from the web.
Any recommendations? I'm mainly looking at vierkilau and oedipamaas49 here.
Many thanks in advance!

Comments

[mazzarc.livejournal.com]

Be careful with free fonts, quite often you can't use them for commercial purposes, as they are art!

[nwhyte]

If you're using a standard wordprocessor it actually should have Cyrillic fonts embedded in it these days - in MS Word, for instance, you go to "insert Symbol" and then choose the Cyrillic subset; then you have to point and click for each letter. Tedious but reliable.

I also use a programme called Global Office which I got bundled with a language course; it does every alphabet you can imagine!

(Sent here by deborah_c.)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be commercial, it's for the TTCS.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*nods* I don't know how much text it would be, it's for a small phrase book type list so that might be doable.

Global Office looks very interesting but also very pricey. I'll send it along with any other recommendations, though.
Thank you!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I've used a nice one called Czar (serifs, non-uniform stroke width, looks a bit like a C19 newspaper, has good italic and bold), of whose commercial status I'm unaware, although it must have come bundled with something. Happy to email over the .ttfs if wanted.

Could try the ones linked here:
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/russian.html
http://www.cyrillic.com/ref/cyrillic/fontlist.html
although I don't know how good they are.

Thank you!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

If you could mail me Czar, that would be ace!

It's not supposed to be big and shiny, just look OK and be legible.
I'll pass on those links so she can try if they'll work.

[deborah_c]

Thanks!

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

What he said.

Pretty much any standard font will include cyrillic characters - the difficulty is being able to input them. You should be able to switch to a Russian keyboard layout and enter cyrillic text - windows instructions here

Failing that, there are various web pages like this one, which will let you type Latin-alphabet text and convert it into cyrillic, which you can then paste into your document.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Cheers!

Re: Thank you!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Czar now emailed to your Yahoo address!