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September 25, 2010
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need font with extended Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, IPA, etc.

  • September 25, 2010
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For a journal that I lay-out that regularly features articles on linguistics and related subjects, I'm looking for new fonts both for main text and for headlines. The problem is that I need fonts that include complete sets of IPA phonetic symbols, Cyrillic with extensions (including obscure Abkhaz letters etc.), Greek with extensions, Latin extended additionals, etcetera. Of course, Times New Roman has all of this, but I prefer to use something slightly more 'elegant'. For headlines, I do not need IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, by the way, but I do need the Latin extended additionals (including for example the letter m with a dot above or below for Sanskrit transcription).

Currently I use Palatino for the main text, which necessitates me to switch to Times New Roman wherever necessary letters or symbols are missing (which happens rather frequently). For headlines I use a sans serif font that looks a it like Optima. I'd prefer to find somewhat similar fonts (and, of course, two fonts that go well together). However, thus far I have been unable to find anything.

Does anyone have suggestions for fonts that would satisfy my needs?

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    Participant
    September 30, 2010

    For serif, you may use Arno Pro/Garamond Premier Pro/Minion Pro/Warnock Pro. For sans-serif, you may try Myriad Pro.

    RayosuAuthor
    Participant
    September 30, 2010

    Thanks. These are all nice fonts.

    However, none of them seems to include IPA symbols, Latin Extended Additionals, or extensions for Cyrillic. For the sans serif font I wouldn't need all of those, but for the serif font I do.

    Myriad Pro might be useful to me, because I need less odd characters in headings, although that one too may be too limited. (Lack of Latin Extended Additionals precludes Sanskrit transliterations, for example, which would be a problem.)

    Participant
    September 30, 2010

    Did you try ITC Stone then?

    It has Phonetic and may meet your requirement.