How to display Polish (or Cyrillic) font?

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September 8, 2022
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I'm creating a document for Polish language, so I need the correct font that can display Cyrillic characters. -lease advise how I accomplish that. Do I need to install a Cyrillic font?

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jmlevy

Community Expert

Do I miss something? But as far as I know, Polish uses latin characters (with some special characters as ł, ź) not cyrillic…

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

You're completely correct! Polish is typically written in Latin script. (If your target population lives in Belarus, then apparently there is a recent Polish Cyrillic variant. I've never seen it, myself. But otherwise, unless you're doing something historical from a few hundred years ago, typeset Polish in Latin script.)

Adobe "Pro" fonts typically have extended glyph coverage, but not all of them have Cyrillic glyphs. For that matter, not all of them have extended Latin glyphs to support Polish. What I'd do, in your shoes, is go to fonts.adobe.com, choose "Browse All Fonts," then select "Polish" from the "Languages and Writing Systems" dropdown in the Filters area on the left. That way, you know you are selecting fonts that have all the glyphs necessary to display Polish.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Yes, you need to install a font that supports Cyrillic characters. Many OpenType fonts which are not specifically Cyrillic actually have these glyphs built in already, including the commonly installed Minion Pro, Myriad Pro and Arial.