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Knowledge Base: Do web fonts support languages such as Russian or Arabic?

April 26, 2017Arabic fonts Languages Russian support web

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Knowledge Base: Do web fonts support languages such as Russian or Arabic?

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Typotheque web fonts support all languages supported by their print versions. That’s over 100 languages, including those using Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic scripts. Latin, Greek, Armenian and Cyrillic scripts render consistently in all browsers, but complex scripts such as Arabic or Devanagari require AAT fonts for correct shaping on Macintosh. That means that on Windows fonts will be rendered correctly, but Mac renders in the fallback font (rather than showing unshaped glyphs). We hope that Apple will extend their support for OTF and TTF fonts to render complex script correctly.