Tibetan fonts

A font draws the letters your keyboard types. Every modern computer has one for Tibetan, but free third-party fonts can be clearer, or give you a different style of Uchen for printing.

All fonts here are Unicode fonts, so the text stays searchable and portable. These tools belong to their authors; check each page for its licence before using a font in a publication.

Tools

BabelStone Tibetan

by Andrew West

An extended version of Jomolhari with additional glyphs, also available in a slim variant. Free to download from the author's site.

Mac
Windows
Free

Open

DDC Uchen

by Chris Fynn

A Unicode Uchen Tibetan font by Chris Fynn, listed by Digital Tibetan as released under the SIL Open Font License.

Mac
Windows
Free
Open source

Open

Digital Tibetan

by Digital Tibetan Community

A community-run guide to using Tibetan on digital devices, with pages on keyboards, fonts, dictionaries, OCR, converting old Tibetan text and more. Still under development.

Web
Free

Open

Jomolhari

by Chris Fynn

A free, Unicode-compatible Tibetan script font named after Mt Jomolhari on the border of Bhutan and Tibet, available from Google Fonts. Usable for Tibetan and Dzongkha.

Web
Mac
Windows
Free
Open source

Open

Noto Serif Tibetan

by Google (Noto project)

A modulated ("serif") design for Tibetan, from Google's Noto collection of fonts for all modern and ancient languages.

Web
Mac
Windows
Free
Open source

Open

Tibetan Machine Uni

by Padma Karpo Translation Committee

The free Tibetan Machine typeface, offered by the Padma Karpo Translation Committee as TibetanMachineUnicode (OpenType) together with the older legacy-encoded versions. PKTC describes it as public domain under the GNU licence.

Mac
Windows
Free
Open source

Open

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