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This page contains some information containing fonts for use in viewing Wikipedia.

APL

Some of the programming code examples on Wikipedia may require a Unicode font containing APL characters. A recommended APL Unicode font is available free from the British APL Association here.

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer as your browser, there are additional considerations for access to Unicode fonts. See the external reference note on setting up Internet Explorer at the end of the Unicode article. Most other browsers will pick up Unicode fonts automatically if they have been installed.

Gothic Unicode Fonts

TrueType

Free software

Mark Williamson’s MPH 2B Damase (download|download) 487.31 kB (download)
Google’s Noto Sans Gothic (download) (OFL) 5.8 kB

Freeware

Artemio Keidan’s Vulcanius (download) ("The font can be downloaded freely.") 5.71 kB
James Kass’ Code2001^{[dead link]} (download) ("Code2001 is freeware, but must not be altered in any way.") 202.28 kB
Robert Pfeffer’s Pfeffer Mediæval (download) ("Download and non-commercial use are free.")
Robert Pfeffer’s Ulfilas (download) ("Download and non-commercial use are free.")
Robert Pfeffer’s Silubr (download) ("Download and non-commercial use are free.")
Robert Pfeffer’s Skeirs (download) ("Download and non-commercial use are free.")
Robert Pfeffer’s Midjungards (download) ("Download and non-commercial use are free.")

Commercial

J. J. Marcos’ ALPHABETUM (download) ("Registration costs US $18, £10 or €15 for individual users[…]") 2.29 MB, including an extensive user manual
Andreas Stötzner' Andron Mega
Michael Everson's Everson Mono ("The shareware fee for using one or more than one (that is, any or all) of these Unicode-supporting coded font programs is €25.00.") 744.6 KB

Resources

Gothic Unicode Fonts

Setup

Microsoft Windows

For Microsoft Windows, see:

Setting up Microsoft Windows NT, 2000 or Windows XP to support Unicode supplementary characters

Linux

Debian has MPH 2B Damase package, use the following command to install it:

apt-get install fonts-mph-2b-damase

The package should also work under all other Debian derived distributions (e.g. Ubuntu, don't forget the sudo command).

For other distributions, extract the truetype font and place it under either /usr/share/fonts/ (with superuser right) or ~/.fonts/ (normal user right). Then run the following command to refresh font cache:

fc-cache -v

Browsers need to be closed and restarted, but there is no need to reboot.

In distributions using GNOME, such as Ubuntu, you can use the filemanager to access fonts://, where you can deposit the font, then restart your web browser.