This information focuses on Unicode fonts in the .ttf format, with information about each font and links to download.

Most of the time Unicode .ttf is the type of font that should be used.They can be used in any operating system and by any modern program. More about this is below.

Note that the placement of the baseline of Tibetan when mixed with Latin script is not optimal. A solutions exists but lacks support in applications, see this link.

• 2Freely available Unicode fonts
  • 2.2Chris Fynn's Tibetan Fonts
    • 2.2.2Jomolhari
• 3Commercial Unicode fonts

Sep 21, 2021 Download Monlam Grand Tibetan Dictionary 1.1 from our website for free. Monlam Grand Tibetan Dictionary relates to Education Tools. This download was scanned by our built-in antivirus and was rated as safe. This free program was originally created by Monlam IT Research Center. Download Monlam-Dic and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Font-based legacy input methods are not included because I’m so tired of receiving documents from people who don’t know better and trying to convert them to something I can read. If you really need legacy input methods/keyboards you can obtain them from the THDL website, Lobsang Monlam’s site, etc.

About Tibetan fonts

Fonts that are in TrueType (.ttf) format can be used on any operating system. Just drop them into your fonts folder.

Download all GPL fonts from one place [as of November 2016]:

The individual, authoritative sources for fonts are below.

Freely available Unicode fonts

BabelStone Tibetan

From the site (http://babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Tibetan.html):

BabelStone Tibetan is a Unicode Tibetan font. It is a modification and extension of the Jomolhari font. Jomolhari is a Bhutanese style calligraphic uchen Tibetan script font developed in Bhutan by Christopher J. Fynn, and licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL). I would like to express my immense gratitude to Chris for designing such a beautiful font, and releasing it under a free license that allows me to modify it and release it under the BabelStone brand.

BabelStone Tibetan is based on Jomolhari Version alpha 0.003c 2006, which is quite old, and so does not include sixteen characters added to the Tibetan block in Unicode versions 5.1 (2008), 5.2 (2009) and 6.0 (2010). BabelStone Tibetan adds support for these sixteen characters, and also extends the font to cover many additional stack clusters, including non-standard clusters that are used for writing Tibetan shorthand contractions and some unusual clusters that were used for transcribing Tangut. If there are any stack clusters you need that BabelStone Tibetan does not currently support, please let me know by email or on twitter, and I will endeavour to promptly add them to the font. Please note that the current release (10.000) is the first public release of the font, and there are a number of known limitations and defects which I hope to fix in the future.

License: OFL (Open Font License)

Chris Fynn's Tibetan Fonts

DDC Uchen

DDC Uchen, a font designed by Chris Fynn for the Dzongkha Development Commission, can be downloaded from:

License: OFL (Open Font License)
'Font designed by Christopher J. Fynn. Copyright (c) 2010 by Dzongkha Development Commission.'

Jomolhari

Jomolhari, a font by Chris Fynn, can be downloaded from:

• Note: See above BabelStone Tibetan is an updated version of Jomolhari.

License: OFL (Open Font License)
'Copyright (c) 2006 by Christopher Fynn. All rights reserved.'

Adobe InDesign CS2 & CS3

There was a special version of the Jomolhari font called 'Jomolhari ID' available, designed to work only in early versions of Adobe's InDesign (CS2 & C24) on both Windows and Mac. InDesign has its own OpenType shaping engine and CS2 and CS3 had no specific support for Tibetan script.
The font worked by using lookups under 'generic' OpenType features which are applied by InDesign's shaping engine ~ rather than the features specified for Tibetan which InDesign's shaping engine did not apply. These special lookups are now incorporated into the regular Jomolhari font along with the normal lookups for Tibetan script.

Adobe InDesign CS5

This has been solved for InDesign CS5: See How to prepare InDesign CS5 for Tibetan script.

License:Non- GPL

Noto Sans Tibetan

Noto is a universal font made by Google. It has a Tibetan version in both regular and bold. It can be downloaded from https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-tibt. It can also easily be integrated in a webiste by following these instructions.

License: OFL (Open Font License)

CTRC: Qomolangma

The Central Tibetan Relief Committee (CTRC) has created a number of free dbu can and dbu med fonts.

Their new Qomolangma fonts can be downloaded from:

• Yalasoo.com.

The older subset of CTRC-fonts can still be downloaded from the Tibetan font overview of the Virginia University, however the Qomolangma set is newer.

License: non- GPL 'Copyright (c) 2014 CTRC'

Sambhota: TsugRing and YigChung

Sambota Tibetan Schools Society Dharamshala has created two new Unicode fonts as of August 2010: Tibetan TsugRing (OTF) and Tibetan Sambhota Yigchung (TTF).

They can be downloaded from

• currently unavailable:SamBhota.org/sambhota-tibetan-unicode-fonts/[page works, download links 'not found' - aug 2016]
  with samples, as well as information about compatibility and keyboards.
  (Samples and useful information are there, but as of 27 august 2016 the download links for the two fonts get 'not found'. We are contacting Sambhota to find out.)

License:
Tibetan Tsug Ring is GPL
Tibetan Sambhota Yigchung is GPL

Tibetan Font For Windows

PKTC: Tibetan Machine Uni

Monlam Bodyig Download

The fonts of Tibetan Computer Company (TCC) by Tony Duff are renowned for being some of the most beautiful, high-quality Tibetan fonts available. They are all in dbu can style; TCC are not planning to produce dbu med fonts 'until the Windows operating system can support them properly.'

PKTC 'typefaces are available in two encoding formats: non-unicode and unicode. We continue to support our own, non-unicode format for Tibetan because, unfortunately, the Tibetan Unicode standard does not support many of the specialized characters needed for serious work in the Tibetan language.'

Download the freely available TCC Tibetan Machine Uni at:

License: non- GPL

See below for the commercially-available TCC Unicode fonts (Calligraphic, Classic and Chogyal).

THDL: Tibetan Machine Uni

The Tibetan Himalayan Digital Library (THDL) provides a Unicode Tibetan Machine Uni font.

This font can be downloaded from:

License: GPL

Commercial Unicode fonts

Nitartha: Sambhota font for Unicode

License: non- GPL.
'Copyright © 2007 Nitartha International. All rights reserved. ... limits installation to one computer. However we want to encourage the use of our product in all possible circumstances for the benefit of beings and will work very hard to meet your needs if you will call and ask us for permission.'

Xenotype fonts

License: non- GPL

Microsoft with PRC: Microsoft Himalaya

This font is part of the Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating system.

Since it is a .ttf (TrueType) font it can be used on any OS (such as Ubuntu Linux, MacOSX). Just drop it into the fonts folder like any font.

License: non-GPL
'© 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.' With usage restrictions.

Padma Karpo Translation Committee fonts

The fonts of Padma Karpo Translation Committee, former Tibetan Computer Company (TCC) by Tony Duff are renowned for being some of the most beautiful, high-quality Tibetan fonts available. They are all in dbu can style; TCC are not planning to producedbu med fonts 'until the Windows operating system can support them properly.'

TCC 'typefaces are available in two encoding formats: non-unicode and unicode. We continue to support our own, non-unicode format for Tibetan because, unfortunately, the Tibetan Unicode standard does not support many of the specialized characters needed for serious work in the Tibetan language.'

The TTCC fonts Tibetan Calligraphic Unicode, Tibetan Classic Unicode and Tibetan Chogyal Unicode can be purchased at:

License: non- GPL

See above for the freely available Tibetan Machine Unicode font.

Mac OS-X Unicode fonts

Mac OS-X includes two Tibetan fonts since version 10.5.x :

• Kailasa
• Kokonor

Freely available is Chris Fynn's

• Jomolhari ID: THLIB.org/tools/#wiki=/access/wiki/site/26a34146-33a6-48ce-001e-f16ce7908a6a/jomolhari%20id.html
• DDC Uchen: Dzongkha.gov.bt/IT/download/fonts/DDC_Uchen.ttf

The company XenoTypeTech offers different Tibetan fonts (both dbu can and dbu med) for different versions of Mac OS-X:

Legacy fonts (non-Unicode)

An incomplete list of legacy fonts (free downloads):

• LTibetan UDP.Leighb.com/robillard.exeLicense: TBD

• Tibetan Machine http://www.pktc.org/pktc/download.htm#FreeTypefaceLicense: TBD

For information on how to convert documents that use legacy fonts into standard Unicode, see:

If you are a font developer, you can convert and create Unicode fonts following the information at:

Internal Links

general formatting and editing

• Formatting rules for Tibetan text - This article explains the basic rules for formatting Tibetan texts, and shows how to use OpenOffice to create properly formatted Tibetan documents.

how-tos for specific programs

• Tibetan Formatting OpenOffice.org Extension - The extension allows left/right justification of Tibetan text including automatic Rinchen Spungs Shad handling.

font creation and licensing

• How to make Platform Independent Tibetan Unicode Fonts with FontForge.
• About licenses for font use: The GPL+FE and the OFL (Open Font License) are optimal.
• How to view font information with FontForge or otfinfo.

unicode

• About Tibetan Unicode
• What is Unicode

External Links

• Tibetan font overview of the Virginia University

Note

The builder of this page does not have extensive knowledge of Tibetan fonts, and has only collated this info from other sources. It would be most helpful if you have more information, to send it here, and i will be able to change it.

Introduction
གླེང་བརྗོད༎

Over the years a number of Tibetan fonts have been ‘freely’available on the web. Unfortunately, most sites listing Tibetan fontsonly provide links to the original provider of the font, many of whichhave since been removed or obfuscated. Moreover, several commonfonts are only available as Windows .exe files, making it difficult toload them on Mac or Linux computers. Together, these factors make itnearly impossible to obtain the proper legacy Tibetan fonts needed toread certain Tibetan-language websites.

If all sites were already using Unicode for Tibetan, we wouldn’thave this problem; any Tibetan font could be used in place of the fontintended on the site. But sadly, the day when everyone has switched toUnicode still seems far far away.

This site provides all known ‘semi-free’ Tibetan fonts I have beenable to obtain, and all fonts necessary to be able to read websites ordocuments in particular legacy encodings, for direct download. This ismeant purely as a service to the Tibetan-language community andparticularly to Tibetans.

Legacy Fonts
ཨང་སྒྲིག་རྙིང་པའི་ཡིག་གཟུགས༎

The following fonts are made available as .zip files. Recentversions of Windows can directly read zip files without anyadditional software. Once you download these files you will need tocopy the fonts inside the zip files (not the zip files themselves) tothe Windows fonts folder (usually C:WindowsFonts). Ifyou’re not using Windows but another operating system you probablyalready know what to do.

Unicode Fonts
རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་《གཅིག་གྱུར་ཨང་སྒྲིག་》གི་ཡིག་གཟུགས༎

The main purepose of this page is to facilitate obtaining the rarelegacy fonts needed to read various websites, but I am also providingsome Unicode fonts, which should be used for all new content inTibetan.

Input Methods/Keyboards
གློག་ཀླད་ནང་ཏུ་བོད་ཡིག་བླུག་པའི་ཐབས་ཤེས༎

This site is aimed at providing the actual font files, not anyparticular software for inputting Tibetan text. Tibetan input softwareis available from a number of other sites, but most of it is tied toparticular legacy fonts.

ཡིག་གཟུགས་རང་མ་གཏོགས་མཉན་ཆས་༼software༽ གཞན་པ་དྲ་ངོས་འདི་ལ་མེད།གློག་ཀླད་ནང་ཏུ་བོད་ཡིག་བླུག་པའི་ཐབས་ཤེས་མེད། དེ་དགོས་ན་དྲ་རྒྱ་ས་ཆ་གཞན་པ་མང་པོ་ཡོད།

For Unicode Tibetan, Windows Vista provides a Tibetan keyboardconfiguration, and several keyboards and input methods are availablefor Windows XP and older versions of Windows as well. In the future Iwill provide another page detailing how to obtain and installthese.

Links
འབྲེལ་ལམ༎

These other sites may be useful to visitors attempting to obtainTibetan fonts:

བོད་ཡིག་གི་ཡིག་གཟུགས་འཚོལ་ན་གཤམ་གསལ་དྲ་ངོས་རྣམས་ཕན་ཐོགས་ཡིན་ས་རེད།

• Tibetanlanguage fonts - A detailed list of almost every Tibetan fontever produced... with lots of broken links.
• TibetanUnicode Fonts - a more complete list than mine.

Contact
འབྲེལ་བ་བྱེད་རོགས༎

My name is Rich Felker and you can reach me by email atdalias@aerifal.cx. If you can help me in obtaining other Tibetan fontsfor this site I would be most grateful!

ངའི་མིང་ལ་Rich Felker ཟེར་གི་ཡོད། གློག་འཕྲིན་གྱི་ཁ་བྱང་ dalias@aerifal.cx རེད།ང་ལ་མེད་པའི་བོད་ཡིག་གི་ཡིག་གཟུགས་འཚོལ་པའི་རོགས་པ་བྱེད་ན་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་ཞུ་གི་ཡིན།